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Question 1

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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Tobacco saved this town

Begins growth when women arrive from London

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John Smith

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Governed for Jamestown for its first two years

Strong relationship with chief Powhatan

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Pocahontas

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Known for saving John smiths life and bringing British/peace

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John Rolfe

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Learned how to grow tobacco and married Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Burned town to ground

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Plymouth Colony

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Colony of pilgrims

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Pilgrims

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Came to America on the mayflower

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Mayflower

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The boat pilgrims came to America on

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Mayflower Compact

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Was signed by pilgrims to set up an organized orderly government

Was a key step in the development of representative democratic government

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William Bradford

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Leader of pilgrims for over 30 years

Famous for writing Plymouth plantation

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Squanto and Samoset

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Showed pilgrims how to grow corn beans and squash and hunt and fish

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Was puritans colony based bible

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John Winthrop

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Was puritans governor

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Both kicked out of Massachusetts and reformed Rhode Island because they disagreed with puritans

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Salem Witch Trials

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Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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Founded colony Pennsylvania and was a Quaker and wrote their constitution

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Quakers

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Tolerant of other people’s views and refused to fight in wars and were pacifist

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Pacifists

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People who refuse to fight in wars

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Georgia was set up by him and he was the first governor of Georgia

He set up this buffer state and a place where lower class people and debtors gets a fresh start

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First Great Awakening

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Inspired greater religious freedom

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Triangular Trade

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A system in which slaves crops and goods were traded between Africa and Caribbean and the American colonies

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

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Witty sayings For a formal government, each colony gave up power Very first political cartoon

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John Peter Zenger Trial

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He was not guilty Tried for criticizing

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Ohio river and fur trade

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Proclamation of 1763

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Halted western expansion by settlers west of Appalachian mountains

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The Sugar Act

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Lower tax on molasses for people would stop smuggling

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The Stamp Act

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Placed tax on almost all printed material

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The Boston Massacre

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Fight between Bostonias and soldiers

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The Boston Tea Party

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Boston sons of Liberty dumped tea shipped from gb

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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Punished colonist for resisting British authority

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Patrick Henry

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Outspoken defender for colonial rights

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Was ready to fight British troops

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John Hancock

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First person to sign Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Called for colonies to have complete independence from Britain

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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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Independence

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Loyalists

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Colonist who were still loyal to gb

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Patriots

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Our colonies

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Places where redcoats and minuteman fought

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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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A time of suffering for George Washington and his troops

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Battle of Yorktown

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Cornwallis surrenders his troops and patriots win

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Benedict Arnold

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The hero of Saratoga | Secret trader

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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

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Marquis de La Fayette

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Believed American cause was the future of mankind Served with Washington without pay

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Friedrich von Steuben

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Came to help Washington

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Francis Marion

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Swamp fox | Father 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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Gb recognized the us as an independent nation

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Created a single territory from lands north Ohio river and east of Mississippi

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Articles of Confederation

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Established a weak central government

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Shays’ Rebellion

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Wanted to seize guns and ammunition

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The Great Compromise

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Each party giving up some demands

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The 3/5 Compromise

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Gave southern states more seats in congress

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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison was father of constitution in 1787. It supreme law of land and separation of powers

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Bill of Rights

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Created the limit power of govt and protect rights of individual - first ten amendments

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1 | st Amendment

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``` Freedom Speech Religion Assembly Press ```

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2 | nd Amendment

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Citizens have right to own firearms

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4 | th Amendment

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Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

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5 | th Amendment

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Natural rights cannot be deprived without due process of law

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6 | th Amendment

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Right to speedy public trial

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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Legislative: law making Executive: Carries out laws Judicial: interprets laws

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Whiskey Rebellion

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A uprising against he taxing power of the federal govt

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Alexander Hamilton

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Wrote series of federalist papers

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Allowed president go deport aliens Crime to write or talk badly about each other

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Natchez Trace

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Important route for trade between Mississippi and Nashville

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Marbury v Madison

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Landmark court case that established judicial review

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Judicial review

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Can nullify actions of other branches

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McCulloch v Maryland

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Supreme Court case over the states rights

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John Sevier

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American soldier,frontiers man, and one of Tennessees founding fathers