test 3 Flashcards
Best-known missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
Led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
First secretary of state of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote the famous pamphlet Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Type of government the Articles of Confederation established
Confederacy
Branch of government that interprets the laws
Judicial
Colony that set a precedent of religious freedom
Rhode Island
English monarch that broke from the Roman Catholic Church, beginning the English Reformation
Henry VIII
Established the first town school system in America
Old Deluder Satan Act
The country the Pinckney Treaty negotiated with over the Florida border dispute
spain
Know the order in which these events occurred
- Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World
- Beginning of the Protestant Reformation
- British defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Adopting of the Declaration of Independence
- Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution
Know the order in which these events occurred
- Founding of Jamestown
- Founding of Harvard College
- French and Indian War
- First shot of the War for Independence
- Treaty of Paris to end the War for Independence
City of brotherly love
Philadelphia
First capital of the United States under the Constitution
New York City
First permanent European settlement
St. Augustine
Established the House of Burgesses
Jamestown
First permanent French settlement
Quebec
The United States was founded as this
Federal Republic
Preached the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
Founded Pennsylvania as a haven for themselves
Quakers
Bread colonies
Middle Colonies
Revived interest in trade with the East.
Crusades
Helped introduce the smallpox vaccine
Cotton Mather
Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists stood for this kind of construction of the Constitution
Loose Construction
The Magna Carta prepared this country for limited government
England
English victory of this war established English tradition and liberty in North America
French & Indian War
The colonies successful economy was due to this system
Agricultural
Must know the location of the following colonies
Delaware, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Where the “shot heard ‘round the world”
Lexington
turning point for the War for Independence
Saratoga
Continental army’s winter camp in 1777-1778
Valley Forge
First major battle in the War for Independence
Bunker Hill
Patriot victory that ended the war
Yorktown
Where the Hessians were captured on Christmas night
Trenton
Why the free enterprise system is a better economic system than the common-store system
The common store system promotes dependability, but the free enterprise system promotes responsibility.
How the Great Awakening affected American history.
The Great Awakening prepared the hearts of the colonists for religious and political freedom.
Why the colonists fought the War for Independence
The colonists realized that their political and religious freedoms were under attack.
How the Constitution tried to guard against man’s sinful nature
The Constitution called for three branches of government of separate but equal powers, providing a check and balance.
The purpose of the government, as listed in the U.S. Constitution
The government is to protect the life and property of the people.
Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford
French aide to George Washington
Marquis de Lafayette
first governor of the Plymouth colony
John Carver
discovered the Pacific Ocean
Vasco de Balboa
founder of Philadelphia Academy
Benjamin Franklin
founder of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Count von Zinzendorf
First secretary of treasury
Alexander Hamilton
discovered the MIssissippi River
Hernando de Soto
The Act of Parliament levied a tax on all legal documents in the colonies
Stamp Act
The American traitor that helped the British during the War for Independence
Benedict Arnold
Published Poor Richard’s Almanac
Benjamin Franklin
The name of the President’s advisers
Cabinet
What type of colonies was under direct authority of the king
royal
The first ten amendments of the Constitution
Bill of Rights
The famous naval hero who shouted, “I have not yet begun to fight”
John Paul Jones
The name of the most widely read textbook in colonial america
New England Primer
During the Constitutional Convention…. the plan that combined the Virginia and New jersey plans, calling for a bicameral legislature
Connecticut or Great Compromise
Incident in the Virginia colony that indicated that the colonists expected the government’s protection
Bacons’ Rebellion
Mount Whitney, Rio Grande, Lake Ontario, Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains
Must locate these locations on the map
