Final 150 Flashcards

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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize

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They were searching for gold and silver

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Virginia Company

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A joint stock company that gained a chapter to establish Jamestown

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Jamestown

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James town

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John Smith

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Captain john smith governor to Jamestown for its 1st year

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Pocahontas

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Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia

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John Rolfe

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John Rolfe married the daughter of chief Powhatan , Pocahontas’s

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Tobacco

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Tobacco saved Jamestown

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Had shown that the settlers were not content with being restricted to the coast

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Plymouth Colony

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A settlement a New Plymouth

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Pilgrims

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1st settler in American

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Mayflower

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The ship that bought the pilgrim

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Mayflower Compact

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First government documents

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William Bradford

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Govener of the Plymouth

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Squanto and Samoset

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Squanto had 1st think giving

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Puritans

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Wanted to puffery the crunches

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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A colony based on investment

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John Winthrop

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Founder of Massachusetts

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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They both work together on government

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Salem Witch Trials

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A time when people being witch and killed a lot of music

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William Penn

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He has people believed the government

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Quakers

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Quaker that found Pennsylvania

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Pacifists

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Study about religion

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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He was about to colony

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First Great Awakening

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The time of invention

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Triangular Trade
Traded run to Africa slavery to American
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
They were persistent
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John Peter Zenger Trial
Unfare Texas
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Cause of French and Indian War
Warblers to sath
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Proclamation of 1763
End of frach and ianidn war
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The Sugar Act
A tax sugar to get money for war
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The Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed by the British parliament
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The Boston Massacre
It has Massachusetts
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The Boston Tea Party
The Boston had tea party
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Acts placed on Conley
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Patrick Henry
Served as a delegation to first
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
People who took in our importan
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John Hancock
Had the largest signature
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Trueurge people who got in to fight
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
July 1776, Washington DC , Thomas Jefferson
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Cause of American Revolutionary War
The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share or war
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Loyalists
The people want to be loyal
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Patriots
People who indpeadend
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Final battle of American
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Battle of Saratoga
Turning of the revaluation
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Winter at Valley Forge
People start dying of starvation
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Battle of Yorktown
Last manger battle
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Benedict Arnold
Led battle of soara sofa
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
Gorge Washington
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Marquis de La Fayette
He was known as layfayette was a French
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Friedrich von Steuben
former captain in the Prussian army, presented himself to George Washington
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Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
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guerrilla warfare
guerrillas were everywhere and South Vietnamese and allied soldiers had to maintain constant
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Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental
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Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
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Shays’ Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787
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The Great Compromise
Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure
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The 3/5 Compromise
compromise they reached would arbitrarily count each slave as 3/5 of a person
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
James Madison,1787
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Bill of Rights
English constitutional settlement of 1689, confirming the deposition of James II and the accession of William
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1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
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2 | nd Amendment
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state
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4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons
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5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital
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6th Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose
To ensure a separation of powers, the U.S. Federal Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial
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Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791