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Final 150 Pt. 1 Flashcards

1
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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Fertile land

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Virginia Company

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A joint-stock company that established Jamestown

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Jamestown

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Easy to defend

No farmland

Didn’t have enough food

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John Smith

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First governor of Jamestown

Forced people to work

When he left England, Jamestown suffered

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Pocahontas

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Saved John Smith

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John Rolfe

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Married Pocahontas

Learn how to grow certain type of tobacco, and sold the first crop in 1816

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Tobacco

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Allowed Virginia to grow

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Led people to Jamestown and set it on fire

Nathaniel Bacon

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Plymouth Colony

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Pilgrims planned to go to New York but instead landed in Plymouth

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Pilgrims

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Separatists that came to the colonies for religious freedom

Came to America on the mayflower in 1620

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Mayflower

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The ship pilgrims came to America on

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Mayflower Compact

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A document that provided the laws and helped developed government

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William Bradford

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Led the pilgrims for over 30 years

Most famous for writing Of Plymouth Plantations

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Squanto and Samoset

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Showed pilgrims how to grow corn, beans, and squash!!!!

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted to reform

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John Winthrop was the groups governor

Puritans believed in a form of theocracy

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John Winthrop

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Governor of the mass bay colony

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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

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Taken to trial over disagreeing with puritans

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Salem Witch Trials

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A series of hearings and procedures of people accused of witchcraft

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William Penn

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A Quaker that wrote their constitution

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Quakers

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Very tolerant of other’s religions

They were pacifists- people who refuse to fight in wars

Positive treatment towards women

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Pacifists

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People who refused to fight in wars

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James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

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Georgia

First governor

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First Great Awakening

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A religious revival that swept through the colonies

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Triangular Trade

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A system where slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and the colonies

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

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Albany Plan of Union- called for 1 government for the 13 colonies

Designed to help the colonies defend themselves from the French

Join or Die- first political cartoon

Poor Richards almanack- written by Benjamin Franklin

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27
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John Peter Zenger Trial

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John Peter Zenger accused the governor of New York of corruption in the New York weekly journal

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Cause of French and Indian War

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Wanted to control fur trade

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Proclamation of 1763

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Halted western expansion by settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains

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The Sugar Act

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Lowered taxes on Molasses to try and stop people from smuggling

31
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The Stamp Act

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Place a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

32
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The Boston Massacre

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A fight between townspeople and British soldiers

5 people died in the Boston massacre

33
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The Boston Tea Party

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A group of colonists led by the Sons of Liberty board on East India Trading Compony ship and destroy tea by throwing it in the Boston harbor

34
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The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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Wanted to punish citizens of Boston by closing down the harbor

35
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Patrick Henry

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” I am not a Virginian, but an American”

36
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams- founded the sons of liberty

Sons of liberty- a secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists

37
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John Hancock

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A well known protest leader

38
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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Called for the colonies to have complete independence from Great Britain

39
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Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

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1176, Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson, The purpose was to explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation

40
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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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The war for independence

41
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Loyalists

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Colonists still loyal to Great Britain

42
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Patriots

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Fought on their own land

43
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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Lexington- minutemen fired “the shot heard around the world”

Concord- …..

44
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Battle of Saratoga

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Turning point of the war

45
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Winter at Valley Forge

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A time of terrible suffering without decent food, clothing, or shelter for Washington and his troops

46
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Battle of Yorktown

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Last major battle of the American Revolution

47
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Benedict Arnold

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Hero of the battle of Saratoga

48
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Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

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Hessions?

49
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Marquis de La Fayette

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Believed the future of America had a great influence on the future of mankind

50
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Friedrich von Steuben

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Drilled the troops at Valley forge

51
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Francis Marion

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Swamp Fox

Helped patriots defend the south

52
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guerrilla warfare

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A hit and run war technique

53
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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Ended the American revolution

54
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Created one territory out of the lands North of the Ohio river and East of the Mississippi River

55
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Articles of Confederation

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The first constitution

Each state had one vote in congress

Unsuccessful because the government in provided was not strong enough to handle all of the problems in the country

56
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Shays’ Rebellion

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An uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the governments taxes

Revealed the need for a stronger government

57
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The Great Compromise

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Established the model for congress used to this day

One part was based on population, and one part was based on equality

58
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The 3/5 Compromise

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Allowed southern states to count slaves as 3/5 of one free person

59
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The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

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James Madison, it is the supreme law of the land, 1776

60
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Bill of Rights

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1st 10 amendments to the constitution

Created to limit the power of the government and to protect the rights of individuals

61
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1

st Amendment

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Guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, and petition the government

62
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2

nd Amendment

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Right to bear arms and for states to be able to maintain a militia

63
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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

65
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6

th Amendment

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You have the right to a speedy, public, trial by an impartial jury

66
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Three Branches of Government and their purpose

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Legislative- makes the laws

Executive- carries out laws

Judicial- interprets laws and declares laws or presidential acts unconstitutional

67
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Whiskey Rebellion

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A civil uprising against the taxing power of the federal government

68
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Alexander Hamilton

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Washingtons secretary of treasury

Attempts to strengthen the nations economy

69
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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Alien acts- allowed president to deport aliens

Sedition acts- a crime to speak or write false criticisms to try and weaken the government

70
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John Sevier

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…….

71
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Natchez Trace

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……..

72
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Marbury v Madison

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The landmark court case that established judicial review

73
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Judicial review

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Court can nullify actions of other branches

74
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McCulloch v Maryland

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Supreme Court case over states rights

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