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US History Unit 1
From Colonies to Independence - Foundations of Freedom
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A system in which people are "owned" like property | Slavery |
| The first successful English colony in North America, with its first settlement at Jamestown in 1607 | Virginia Colony |
| The world of the American colonies centered on their relationship with the home country across the Atlantic Ocean. | Atlantic World |
| The growth of business, trade, and industries | Economic Development |
| Cultural changes | Social Development |
| A company created when people buy stocks to fund it in hope of making more money when it is successful | Joint-Stock Company |
| The first legislature in the colonies, established in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1691 | Burgesses |
| The British policy of letting its thrirteen American colonies essentially govern themselves | Salutary Neglect |
| the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 | Magna Carta |
| The political and personal rights enjoyed by British citizens at the time of the American Revolution such as trial by jury and the right to petition the government | Rights of Englishmen |
| People who worked for a set number of years without pay in return for payment of their passage to the colonies | Indentured Servants |
| Growing just enough food to feed one's family | Subsistence Farming |
| The colony founded by Puritans that eventually merged with Plymouth Colony and became the state of Massachusetts | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| The movement of a group of people from one place(usually a country) to another place (again, usually a country) where they plan to stay for a long time or permanently | Migration |
| Forced migration such as slavery | Involuntary Migration |
| French Protestants who fled persecution in France, were usually craftsmen and professionals, and were comfortable with pluralism | Huguenots |
| The vision of the American government s the hope and leader of the world, which was first stated by the Puritans and is still supported by many today | "City Upon a Hill" John Winthrop |
| Meetings held once a year so town residents could decide important issues and elect government officials, a practice begun in New England Colonies | Town Hall Meetings |
| Factors such as freedom, education, job opportunities, and the chance to be reunited with family that pull immigrants toward a country | Pull Factors |
| A crop grown to sell | Cash Crops |
| The promise of fifty acres of land to those who would settle in Jamestown | Headright System (1618) |
| The religious revival movement in the 1730s and 1740s that led to more religious tolerance and sense of national unity | First Great Awakening |
| The trade from Africa in slaves to the New World where ships picked up sugar and then goods from North America and then to Britain and Europe with raw materials from the colonies | Triangular Trade |
| The economy of the 13 colonies that focused on trade across the Atlantic Ocean | Trans-Atlantic Economy |
| The war fought between Great Britain and France from 1754 to 1763 for control of North America, especially the Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) |
| The famous cartoon of a cut snake made by Benjamin Franklin in support for the Albany Plan and later used to support the American Revolution | "Join or Die" |
| The proclamation issued by King George to stop colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Colonists who opposed British rule | Patriots |
| Colonists who remained loyal to the king and wanted to stay part of Britain | Loyalists |
| The raid on British ships carrying tea from the East India Company by protesting colonists who dumped the tea overboard | Boston Tea Party |
| The policies followed under mercantilism | Mercantilist System |
| Suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 to deal with Native Americans, the first serious plan to unite the colonies | Albany Plan of Union |
| Money owed for weapons, military supplies, and pay during a war, and the reason the British started taxing the colonists after the French and Indian War | War Debt |
| A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in favor of American independence that caused many people to support the Revolutionary War | Common Sense by Thomas Paine |
| The debate about ideal governments as expressed by Locke and Montesquieu | Enlightenment Ideals |
| Rights that people are born with and no one can take away, including the right to life, liberty, and property | "Natural Rights" |
| Rights that cannot be taken not given away | Inalienable Rights |
| The period of time in Europe beginning in the late 1600s to about 1785 when scientists and philosophers explored ideas that could explain or improve the world | Enlightenment |
| The Enlightenment thinker who believed the purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and that people have the right to overthrow a government that fails to protect their rights | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| The inalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness |
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