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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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To settle and have farm land to grow crops

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Virginia Company

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Was a joint stock company in which investors bought shares or part ownership

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Jamestown

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Was a colony that was going out and was saved by tobacco which many used to keep Jamestown

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John Smith

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Was a leading surviver in Jamestown and he forced the settlers to work and had a connection with the Indians

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Pocahontas

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Was an Indian that aided the settlers and helped them get back on their feets

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John Rolfe

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Was married to Pocahontas

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Tobacco

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Was the crop that saved Jamestown from going down

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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To rule against Governor William Berkley for making farmers pay tax for crops

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Plymouth Colony

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It was a clone for pilgrims seeking religious freedom

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Pilgrims

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Came to America on the mayflower and Were separatist who came to the colonies for religious freedom

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Mayflower

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Was the ship that brought the pilgrims to America

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Mayflower Compact

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Was a document that pilgrims signed to setup an organized,orderly government

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William Bradford

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Was the governor for the Plymouth colony

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Squanto and Samoset

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They are the ones helped pilgrims make peace with the Wampanoag people who lived in that area also the pilgrims invited the Wampanoag in a feast of thanksgiving

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Puritans

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Were protesters who wanted reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Was an route for puritans to escape prosecution and economic hard times

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John Winthrop

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Was the governor for the Plymouth company and led 900 men,women,and children to the Massachusetts bay

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Anne Hutchison was banished from Massachusetts for talking about how she viewed the religious teachings.Roger Williams was a minister of found Rhode island because he felt that the government should not force people to worship a certain way

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Salem Witch Trials

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Many women were accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts it was illegal to practice witchcraft and nineteen were killed before they were wrongfully convicted

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William Penn

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Was a wealthy English Quaker who saw a chance to put his Quaker ideals into practice

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Quakers

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They were a Protestant group that were prosecuted in England and they were pacifists which meant they refused to fight in wars and refused to use force

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Received a charter from George the 2nd for a colony where debtors and poor people to have a fresh start.

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First Great Awakening

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A new spirit of reform

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Triangular Trade

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It was a leg of a three-part route that shipped crops,slaves,and other goods to the Americas

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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Was a way of telling people if they didn't join the union that they would die
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John Peter Zenger Trial
Because of him he made us have the freedom of speech
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Cause of French and Indian War
Both wanted to expand their lands it the west which was Called the Ohio territory
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Proclamation of 1763
Forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
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The Sugar Act
Was passed to put tariffs on goods that were being shipped
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The Stamp Act
Was an act of parliament that imposed a direct tax on goods
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The Boston Massacre
Was propaganda to show others to fight but only 5 were killed
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The Boston Tea Party
Was a protest by the Sons of Liberty which they dressed up as natives and dumped tea on the water
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Was a way to punish the colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston harbor
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Patrick Henry
Became an orator during the movement of independence in Virginia
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams was a Sons of Liberty member which he was in the Boston tea party
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John Hancock
He was president of congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
He wrote it so others could fight for independence
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
July fourth 1776,Freedom hall,Thomas Jefferson,that America finally had its independence
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Cause of American Revolutionary War
The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of the war debt
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Loyalists
American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War
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Patriots
Were colonists who rebelled against British control during the American war
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Saratoga
Was the turning point
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Winter at Valley Forge
Was the military camp where the American continental war spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Yorktown
Where Cornwallis was forced to surrender
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Benedict Arnold
A general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought but defected to the British army
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
Colonial William Barton
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Marquis de La Fayette
Was a French aristocratic and a military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War
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Friedrich von Steuben
A Prussian military officer
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Francis Marion
Acting with the continental army and South Carolina militia
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guerrilla warfare
A hit and run tactic that was used in wars
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Treaty of Paris 1783
Ended the American Revolutionary War
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Was an act of the congress of the confederation of the United States
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Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 original states which acted as the first constitution
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Shays’ Rebellion
Was an armed up rising and four thousand rebels against perceived economic and civil rights injustices
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The Great Compromise
Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention
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The 3/5 Compromise
The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
James Maddison,1789,creates check and balances so that no branch has more power than the others
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Bill of Rights
First 10 amendments of the constitution
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1st Amendment
Freedom of religion,speech,press,petition,assembly
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2nd Amendment
The right to bear arms
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4th Amendment
The freedom to prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures
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5th Amendment
Freedom to witness against themselves in a criminal case
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6th Amendment
The right to a speedy or public trial
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose
Executive,judicial,legislative Executive:carries out the laws Legislative:make laws Judicial:interprets and applies the law in the name of the state
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Whiskey Rebellion
Was to revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War
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Alexander Hamilton
Was influential interpreter and promoter of the us constitution
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Alien and Sedition Acts
To keep those who weren't citizens out of the country but this act would not be helpful
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John Sevier
Fought with the Cherokee
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Natchez Trace
Was used to help getting near Tennessee easier
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Marbury v Madison
Was exercise for the judicial
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Judicial review
US Supreme Court of the constitutional validly of a legislative act
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McCulloch v Maryland
Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court

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