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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Because there was stuff their they wanted

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Virginia Company

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Joint stock company

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Jamestown

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English men and boys arrived in North America to settle their

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John Smith

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Leader of Jamestown settlement

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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

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John Rolfe

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He brought tobacco to the colony of Virginia

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Tobacco

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After john Rolfe brought it to Virginia many places began buy selling growing and trading it

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Bacon’s Rebellion was the first rebellion in the American colonies.

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Plymouth Colony

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It is most famous for introducing Thanksgiving and, more important, introducing self government into America through the Mayflower Compact

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Pilgrims

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They were people that founded thanksgiving

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Mayflower

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The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the Pilgrims

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Mayflower Compact

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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

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William Bradford

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William Bradford was an English separatist and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower

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Squanto and Samoset

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Squanto, was a member of the Patuxet tribe

Samoset was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.

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Puritans

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a member of a group of English Protestants

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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an English settlement on the east coast of North America

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John Winthrop

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English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams spoke their minds

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Salem Witch Trials

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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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William Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur

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Quakers

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Quakers are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church

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Pacifists

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a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer Colony

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He and a group of charitable investors asked King George for permission to create a utopian experiment

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First Great Awakening

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revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies

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Triangular Trade
used to refer to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves
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Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Join or die cartoon is political
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John Peter Zenger Trial
The trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists
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Cause of French and Indian War
The conflict was a part of the Seven Years' War among the European great powers including Britain and France
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Proclamation of 1763
prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia
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The Sugar Act
was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament
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The Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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The Boston Massacre
it united the colonists against Britain, which would eventually lead to the Revolutionary War
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The Boston Tea Party
The British were furious with the actions of the colonists and needed to impose a punishmen
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Designed to punish the colonist
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Patrick Henry
quickly became notable for his inflammatory rhetoric against the Stamp Act of 1765
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies and Samuel Adams was the founder
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John Hancock
one of Boston's leaders during the crisis that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Getting independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
1776, Thomas Jefferson, | To announce and explain separation from Great Britain
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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 from the French and Indian War
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Loyalists
Were called Tories. They opposed the Revolution and many took up arms against the revels
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Patriots
Patriots were members of the 13 British colonies who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Started the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Saratoga
marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War
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Winter at Valley Forge
a great trial for the American army, and of the 11,000 soldiers stationed here
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Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington
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Benedict Arnold
An American hero who switched to fight for the British
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
George Washington
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Marquis de La Fayette
French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War
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Friedrich von Steuben
Prussian military officer
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Francis Marion
was a military officer who served in the ARW Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions
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guerrilla warfare
fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military
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Treaty of Paris 1783
signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory
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Articles of Confederation
agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
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Shays’ Rebellion
led to the writing of the new Constitution
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The Great Compromise
saved the Constitutional Convention
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The 3/5 Compromise
outlined the process for states to count slaves as part of the population
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose
James Madison, 1787, to establish a federal government
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Bill of Rights
To. Are up the first 10 amendments
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1 | st Amendment
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion
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2nd amendment
Right to bear arms
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4 | th Amendment
protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
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5 | th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger
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6 | th Amendment
establishes the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose
Legislative-congress and makes the laws Executive-carries out and inforces laws Judicial-supreme court and interpret the laws
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Whiskey Rebellion
was a tax protest in the United States
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Alexander Hamilton
led the Treasury Department as a trusted member of President Washington's first Cabinet
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Alien and Sedition Acts
series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent
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John Sevier
frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee
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Natchez Trace
Network of trails
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Marbury v Madison
Landmark court case that established judicial review
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Judicial review
review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
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McCulloch v Maryland
Court case over states rights

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