Us History Flashcards

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First successful colony of Britain

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1607 Jamestown

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2
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Beginning of slavery

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1619

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3
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1756 1763

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Seven years war

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4
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Declaration of independence

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1776

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5
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Constitution

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1787

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6
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Bill of rights

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1791

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7
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1861 1865

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Civil War + end of slavery

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8
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1775 1783

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Independence war

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9
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Colonialperiod

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1607 1763

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10
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Why England began to explore America 3 reasons

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1 social+demographic reasons: English pop doubles
New land policies –>farming is profitable
2 economic reasons :unemployment and competition
3 religious reasons : persecution puritans criticize English church

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Elisabeth 1

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Gave permission to volonté America,led to the Roanoke venture (lost colony) financial failure

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12
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James 1 joint stock company

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Investor built business and share the profits first one is Virginia company

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13
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Virginia company

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1606—> created Jamestown company

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14
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1609-1610

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Starving time, disease, hunger…no experience of living outside —> they were gentlemen from upper class

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15
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tobacco

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Virginia first profitable export
—>colony survived
Tobacco became the gold they haven’t found

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16
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John Rolfe

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Leader + military past. He organized the men to work he discovered tobacco

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Headright system

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Have 50 acres of land for free if you pay the ship for as many people as you want and then they become your servant for a number of years (5-7) –>INDENTURED SERVANTS

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Plymouth colony

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2nd successful colony

19
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John Winthrop

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Was a lawyer,called himself a saint, American colonial politician leader + 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony

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Roger Williams

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1603– March 1683)[1]was an English-bornNew EnglandPuritanminister, theologian, and author who foundedProvidence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later theState of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.[2

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Anthony Johnson

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Was an indentured servants and became the first black owner

22
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John Locke

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was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential ofEnlightenmentthinkers and commonly known as the “father ofliberalism”
Government should provide liberty life and private property
Right to revolt

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Thomas Paine

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was an English-born AmericanFounding Father, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.[2][3]He authoredCommon Sense(1776) andThe American Crisis(1776–1783),

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Monroe James

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James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825) and the last President from the Founding Fathers.

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David walker

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Born of an enslaved father and a free mother, Walker grew up free, obtained an education, and traveled throughout thecountry, settling in Boston. There he became involved in theabolition movementand was a frequent contributor toFreedom’s Journal,

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William garrinson

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the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil War. It was published and edited in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison,

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Elizabeth Cady stanson

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Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20thcentury.

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Lucretia mott

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was an AmericanQuaker,abolitionist,women’s rightsactivist, andsocial reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from theWorld Anti-Slavery Conventionheld in London in 1840.