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The Final 150 Part 1 Flashcards

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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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To acquire new land and spread Christianity

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Virginia Company

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Joint stock company that established Jamestown

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Jamestown

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A town saved by the discovery of tobacco

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John Smith

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Governor of Jamestown for 1st two years

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Pocahontas

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Chief Powhatan’s daughter who married John Rolfe

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John Rolfe

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Colonist that brought Pocahontas into English was of life

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Tobacco

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Crop that saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Showed that settlers were not content with being restricted to the coast

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Plymouth Colony

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Colony of the pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Separatists divided to move to america

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Mayflower

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Ship that brought the pilgrims to Americas

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Mayflower Compact

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Organization of orderly government

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William Bradford

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Governor of Plymouth colony

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Native Americans who taught the colonists to farm and hunt and fish

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Squanto and Samoset

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted to reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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A colony started by puritans in 1629

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John Winthrop

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Leader of Massachusetts bay colony

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Salem Witch Trials

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When 19 people were killed in Salem for practicing witchcraft

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William Penn

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Quaker Founder who wrote their constitution

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Quaker

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Protestant, pacifist group that had been persecuted in England

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Pacifists

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Group of People who don’t believe in violence

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Place for English debtors to get a fresh start

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First Great Awakening

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Religious revival in colonies

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Triangular Trade

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Trade route between the colonies, Great Britain and Africa which shipped things like slaves and rice

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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon

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Poor Richards Almanack: by Ben Franklin caused by Age of Enlightenment
Albany Plan of Union:designed to help the colonies defend themselves from French
Join or die Cartoon:first political cartoon in American colonies

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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Caused freedom of the press

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Fighting over the Ohio River Valley

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Proclamation of 1763

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Halted western expansion west of the Appalachian mountains

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Treaty of 1763

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Ended French and Indian War end of power in North America for French

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The Sugar Act

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Lowed tax on molasses to try and convince people to stop smuggling

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Stamp act

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Placed tax on almost all printed material I the colonies

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The Boston Massacre

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Propaganda designed to influence opinion

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The Boston Tea Party

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Colonists Led by Sons Of Liberty unloaded tea and throwing it into Boston Harbor

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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laws meant to punish colonists for rebelling

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Patrick Henry

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Member of House of Burgesses and got them to make resolution to say they can only tax themselves

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Made A secret society formed to protect rights of colonists and fight taxation by the British

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John Hancock

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First to sign Declaration of Independence and president of Second continental congress

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Called for the colonies to have complete independence from Great Britain

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Declaration of Independence

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July 4th 1776 written by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia

Purpose to explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation

40
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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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Ask Mairead which Answer to use

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Loyalists

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Didn’t think these taxes were enough of a reason to fight

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Patriots

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Determined to fight until Independence was won

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Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Minute men fire the shot heard round the world

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Battle of Saratoga

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Turning point of revolutionary war.

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Winter at valley forge

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Time of terrible suffering without decent food clothing or shelter of Washington and his troops

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Battle of Yorktown

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Last major battle and was beginning of the end of the revolutionary war

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Benedict Arnold

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Hero of battle of Saratoga

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LaFayette

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Believed the future of America had a great influence on the future of mankind

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Friedrich Von Steuben

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Credited with teaching the continental army essentials of military drills and discipline

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Francis Marion: Swamp fox

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Considered the father her of guerrilla warfare

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Guerrilla Warfare

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Hit and run war technique

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Great Britain recognized the U.S as an independent nation

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Included a bill of rights for settlers… First attempt US history to stop the spread of slavery

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Articles of confederation

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Americas first constitution… Unsuccessful because government wasn’t strong enough

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Shays Rebellion

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Uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the governments taxes in poor farmers

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The great compromise

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Established the model for congress used to this day

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The 3/5 compromise

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Allowed the southern states to gain more delegates in the House of Representatives

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US Constitution

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James Madison, NEED DATE, the system of checks and balances keeping one branch from gaining too much power

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Bill of rights

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1st ten amendments of the constitution

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1st Amendment

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Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Petition, And Assembly

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2nd Amendment

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The right to bare arms

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4th Amendment

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Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

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5th Amendment

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Natural rights can’t be deprived without due process of law

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6th Amendment

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Right to a speedy, public trial by impartial jury

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Three branches of government and purposes

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Legislative- makes the laws
Executive- carries on the laws
Judicial- interprets laws

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Whiskey rebellion

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Civil uprising against the taxing power of federal government

67
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Alexander Hamilton 😍😍

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First secretary of treasury… Attempted to improve Americas economy

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Alien and Sedition acts

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Alien: allowed president to depart aliens
Sedition: crime to speak and write false criticism to try and weaken the government

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Marbury v. Madison

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First time the surpreme court decided something was unconstitutional

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Judicial Review

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The court can nullify actions of other branches

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