Social Science Flashcards
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This man was the candidate for
the Democratic-Republican Party
in the second presidential
election.
Thomas Jefferson
This French commander helped Washington lead a Franco-American army during the Battle
of Yorktown.
Rochambeau
A guard of this number of British
soldiers appeared on Lexington
Common on April 19, 1775.
240
Algonquian peoples lived
alongside these three bodies of
water.
the Atlantic Coast, the St.
Lawrence River, and the Great
Lakes
This man built the first textile mill
in America.
Samuel Slater
Saint-Domingue was a colony of
this European country.
France
After the Royal Proclamation of 1763, only these individuals could purchase Native American lands.
royal officials
Federalists thought that this trend posed the greatest threat to the United States.
excesses of democracy
American Loyalists drafted this document to emphasize their subservience to Britain.
“A Declaration of Dependence”
Historians estimate that this number of Native Americans fought for the British during the
Revolutionary War.
13,000
This treaty established a “conditional and defensive” alliance between the Americans
and the French.
Treaty of Alliance
The first enslaved Africans in America arrived in this city.
Port Comfort, Virginia
In 1810, this number of African Americans were enslaved in the northern states.
thirty thousand
White slavers illegally imported African enslaved peoples from these two regions.
Spanish Florida and Mexico
Many Caribbean sugar plantation
workers came from this region.
Africa
Free African Americans faced discrimination from white workers for these two reasons
fear of job competition and
social integration
This man led the militia that shut down Shays’ Rebellion.
Benjamin Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson won this many votes in the 1786 presidential election.
sixty-eight
The Northwest Ordinance prohibited this system in the Northwest Territory.
slavery
This British ruler issued the Declaration of Independence.
Frederick, Lord North
The Stamp Act taxed these printed materials.
legal documents, magazines,
playing cards, newspapers,
contracts
This Revolutionary War
participant controlled the Mississippi Valley in 1779.
Spain
British troops killed this number of French soldiers at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
ten
The Jay Treaty resolved these types of issues between Britain and America.
territorial issues from the Treaty
of Paris