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Best-known missionary to the Indians

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David Brainerd

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Led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga

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Ethan Allen

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First secretary of state of the United States

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Thomas Jefferson

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Wrote the famous pamphlet Common Sense

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Thomas Paine

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Type of government the Articles of Confederation established

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Confederacy

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Branch of government that interprets the laws

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Judicial

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Colony that set a precedent of religious freedom

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Rhode Island

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English monarch that broke from the Roman Catholic Church, beginning the English Reformation

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Henry VIII

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Established the first town school system in America

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Old Deluder Satan Act

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The country the Pinckney Treaty negotiated with over the Florida border dispute

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spain

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11
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Know the order in which these events occurred

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  1. Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World
  2. Beginning of the Protestant Reformation
  3. British defeat of the Spanish Armada
  4. Adopting of the Declaration of Independence
  5. Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution
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Know the order in which these events occurred

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  1. Founding of Jamestown
  2. Founding of Harvard College
  3. French and Indian War
  4. First shot of the War for Independence
  5. Treaty of Paris to end the War for Independence
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City of brotherly love

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Philadelphia

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First capital of the United States under the Constitution

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New York City

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First permanent European settlement

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St. Augustine

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Established the House of Burgesses

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Jamestown

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17
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First permanent French settlement

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Quebec

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18
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The United States was founded as this

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Federal Republic

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Preached the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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Jonathan Edwards

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Founded Pennsylvania as a haven for themselves

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Quakers

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Bread colonies

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Middle Colonies

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Revived interest in trade with the East.

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Crusades

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Helped introduce the smallpox vaccine

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Cotton Mather

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Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists stood for this kind of construction of the Constitution

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Loose Construction

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The Magna Carta prepared this country for limited government

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England

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English victory of this war established English tradition and liberty in North America

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French & Indian War

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The colonies successful economy was due to this system

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Agricultural

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Must know the location of the following colonies

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Delaware, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut,

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Where the “shot heard ‘round the world”

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Lexington

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turning point for the War for Independence

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Saratoga

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Continental army’s winter camp in 1777-1778

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Valley Forge

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First major battle in the War for Independence

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Bunker Hill

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Patriot victory that ended the war

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Yorktown

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Where the Hessians were captured on Christmas night

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Trenton

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Why the free enterprise system is a better economic system than the common-store system

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The common store system promotes dependability, but the free enterprise system promotes responsibility.

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How the Great Awakening affected American history.

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The Great Awakening prepared the hearts of the colonists for religious and political freedom.

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Why the colonists fought the War for Independence

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The colonists realized that their political and religious freedoms were under attack.

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How the Constitution tried to guard against man’s sinful nature

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The Constitution called for three branches of government of separate but equal powers, providing a check and balance.

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The purpose of the government, as listed in the U.S. Constitution

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The government is to protect the life and property of the people.

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Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation

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William Bradford

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French aide to George Washington

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Marquis de Lafayette

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first governor of the Plymouth colony

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John Carver

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discovered the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco de Balboa

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founder of Philadelphia Academy

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Benjamin Franklin

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founder of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Count von Zinzendorf

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First secretary of treasury

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Alexander Hamilton

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discovered the MIssissippi River

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Hernando de Soto

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The Act of Parliament levied a tax on all legal documents in the colonies

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Stamp Act

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The American traitor that helped the British during the War for Independence

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Benedict Arnold

50
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Published Poor Richard’s Almanac

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Benjamin Franklin

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The name of the President’s advisers

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Cabinet

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What type of colonies was under direct authority of the king

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royal

53
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The first ten amendments of the Constitution

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Bill of Rights

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The famous naval hero who shouted, “I have not yet begun to fight”

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John Paul Jones

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The name of the most widely read textbook in colonial america

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New England Primer

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During the Constitutional Convention…. the plan that combined the Virginia and New jersey plans, calling for a bicameral legislature

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Connecticut or Great Compromise

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Incident in the Virginia colony that indicated that the colonists expected the government’s protection

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Bacons’ Rebellion

58
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Mount Whitney, Rio Grande, Lake Ontario, Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains

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Must locate these locations on the map

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