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What was the first permanent English settlement?
Mayflower Compact
What was America’s first attempt at self government?
DOC
What was a breakup letter from America to great Brittan and was made in 1776?
The Constitution
What was written in 1787 and was made in the Philadelphia Convection?
Louisiana Purchase
What happened in 1803 and led to the westward expansion?
Civil War
What lasted from 1861-1865 and made slaves free people?
Virginia House of Burgesses
What was the first attempt of a representative government in the new world?
Mayflower Compact
What was the first attempt of self-government in the new world?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
What was the first written constitution in the English Colonies?
Magna Carta
What limited the power of the king back in England and established Due prossesing?
English Bill of Rights
What document paved the way for the Constitution and said how to elect representatives for congress?
Representative Government
What is a type of government which the people elect representatives?
New England: Sustenance Farming
Middle: Stable farms
Southern: Cash crop farming
What are the economical differences between the three colonial regions, New England, Middle and the southern Colonies?
Plantations
What is a system in a planter owns large tracts of land and uses slave labor to harvest cash crops ?
First Great Awakening
What was a colonial religious revival movement emphasizing faith in god and verses human reason?
Roger Williams
Who founded Rhode Island?
James Oglethorpe
Who founded Georgia?
Anne Hutchinson
Who was banished from Massachusetts and moved into Rhode Island?
Mercantilism
What is the economic system that England used to control America?
French & Indian War
What was named the 7 years war?
Treaty of Paris,1763
What was the treaty that ended the French and Indian war ?
Proclamation of 1763, Quartering act, Taxation without representation, Mercantilism
After the French and Indian war, what 4 actions did Brittan take that enraged Colonists ?
Proclamation of 1763
What banned colonists from going west of the Appilation mountains?
James Otis
Who was the man that stated “No taxation without representation”?
Lexington and Concord
What was the battle known as the “Shot heard around the world”
Saratoga
What was the turning point of the American Revolution
Valley Forge
What was a camp in which 1/5 of the soldiers died?
Yorktown
What was the last battle of the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris , 1783
What document made England recognize America as a free country
AOC
What was the first ever gov of the US? (Abbreviation)
Samuel Adams
Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?
Benjamin Franklin
Who was a founding father from PA?
King George III
Who was the king of England during the Revolution
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the DOI
George Washington
Who was the commander in chief of the Continental army
Thomas Paine
Who wrote “Common Sense”
Abigail Addams
Who was an early woman’s right activist?
Lord Cornwallis
Who was the general of the British army
Patrick Henry
Who said “Give me Liberty or give me death”
John Paul jones
Who was the founder of the US Navy
Paul Revere
Who warned the colonists of the British during Lexington and Concord
Marquis De Lafayette
Who was a French nobleman who helped train troops
Haym Salomon
Who was a Jewish colonist who helped fund the American revolution?
Intolerable Acts
What were acts used to punish the people for the Bostin Tea Party
Stamp Act
What was a tax on all printed paper
People who take an active role towards their community
Define Civic Virtue
increase power and wealth
What were the reasons of European Colonization in America
William Penn
Who was the colonial leader who believed in equality under God and founded a colony for Quakers?
John Locke
Who was an English Philosopher that believed people were born with Unalienable Rights?
William Blackstone
Who influenced BOTH the bill of rights and the Constitution?
Shays’ Rebellion
What was the event in which MA Farmers rebelled against the people
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
What is the ONLY strength of the AOC?
Democracy
What is the belief that the gov is run by the people
Republicanism
The idea that the gov. is controlled by the people?
Founding Fathers
who are the people who helped influence our gov called?
The Great Compromise
What was the compromise that satisfied the small and large states at the Philadelphia Convention ?
3/5 Compromise
What was the compromise that satisfied the slave states and non-slave states at the Philadelphia Convention ?
Limited Gov
What is it called when the power from gov is limited
Federalism
What is the concept in which you share power with state gov and national gov
James Madison
Who is the Father of the Constitution?
Preamble of the Constitution
“ We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union…”
Checks and Balances
What is the system that makes sure that no one branch has too much power?
Popular Sovereignty
What policy is Power of People?
Separation of Powers
What policy describes 3 branches of gov?
2/3 congress vote and 3/4 of state legislature
How is the Constitution amended?
George Mason
Who influenced James Madison for the BOR?(Bill of Rights)
Individual Rights
Rights granted by the citizens of the US
Federalist
Someone who supported Ratification of the original constitution
Federalist Papers
Series of 85 essays about a federalist’s thoughts
Antifederalists
People who did not support the constitution
Antifederalist Papers
what promoted the idea of a loose central government.
Charles de Montesquieu
Who was an Enlightenment Philosopher that believed in republicanism?
William Penn
Who was the founder of Pennsylvania
BOF (Bill of Rights)
First 10 amendments
Unalienable Rights
Human Rights
John Peter Zenger
Who is the colonial figure who established freedom of press?
Religion, Assembly, petition, press, speech
What are the 5 rights of the first 10 amendments?
Amendments 2, 3, 4
What 3 amendments refer back to the grievances addressed in the DOI
5th Amendment
Rights of the accused
Amendments 6,7
Accessible Jury for trial
8th Amendment
No unusual punishment AND no excessive bail
Amendments 9, 10
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Black Codes
What did the southern states do to limit the effects of the 13th amendment?
14th Amendment
Reconstruction Amendment
15th Amendment
Granted suffrage to African American males
Personal Responsibilities
Responsibility for behavior
Responsible Citizenship
Obey rules and laws
at least 18, permanent resident for at least 5 years, apply for citizenship, tested in English and government/history, take oath for allegiance
How does one become a naturalized citizen of the U.S.?
God, Glory, and Gold
What were the reasons for colonization of North America?
Power
The central theme of conflict around the development of the first two political parties was how much the _____ the gov should have.
democratic-republicans, federalists
Name the first two political parties
Thomas Jefferson
who led the Democratic- Republicans
Alexander Hamilton
Who led the Federalists
Promote industrialization
What were the beliefs of the Federalists
promote agriculture
What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans
1st secretary of treasures
Who was Alexander Hamilton
pay off national and state debts
what was Alexander Hamilton’s financial / economic plan?
Farmers were mad that there was a tax on
alcohol
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
That the federal gov was much more stable now
What did the Whiskey Rebellion prove
No forming political parties along the sectionals, remain neutral, Public debt
List the three warnings issued in Washington’s Farewell address?
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