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Sem. I Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Companies backed by people who put money into a project to earn profits. | joint-stock company |
| A written contract issued by the government giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | charter |
| The first permanent English settlement in the westward adventure. | Jamestown |
| A soldier/adventurer who took control of the conflict in surviving in the new colony. | John Smith |
| Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony. | indentured servant |
| The first representative assembly in the American colonies. Created in 1619. | House of Burgesses |
| A separatist group that fled to North America for freedom of religion. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement between the Virginia Company and the Pilgrims that vowed the Pilgrims to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony | Mayflower Compact |
| A religious group that left England to escape the bad treatment given by King James I. | Puritans |
| Great Migration A constitution that extended voting rights to nonchurch members and limited the power of the governor. | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| A colony that was New Netherland then New York. | proprietary colony |
| A large landowner in America who created the Pennsylvania colony. | William Penn |
| People who lived according to their beliefs- peace, harmony, different religions/ethnic groups together, and equality. | Quaker |
| A colony ruled by governors appointed by the king. | royal colony |
| Founder of Georgia as a refuge for debtors. | James Oglethorpe |
| An island where a group of settlers tried to settle at but after going back to get supplies, dissapeared. | Roanoke |
| An area that ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far west of the other regions. | Backcountry |
| Farming to produce jst enough food for themselves and sometimes a little extra to trade in town. | subsistence farming |
| A trading route with three stops that went on and on in a pattern. | triangular trade |
| Acts passed in 1651 to ensure that England could make money from its colonoies' trade. | Navigation Acts |
| Importing or exporting goods illegally. | smuggling |
| A variety in people. | diversity |
| A plant that yields a deep blue dye. | indigo |
| Men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of slaves. | overseer |
| A mountain range spreading from eastern Canada south to Alabama. | Appalachian Mountains |
| A religious movement where the traveling ministers preached that inner religous movement was more important than outward religious behavior. | Great Awakening |
| One of the best-known preachers in the Great Awakening who terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved | Jonathan Edwards |
| A colonist who drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans. | George Whitefield |
| An intellectual movement that emphasized reason and science as paths to knowledge. | Enlightment |
| A famous American Enlightment figure. | Benjamin Franklin |
| An English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights. | John Locke |
| Meaning "Great Charter", this document guarenteed important rights to noblemen and freemen. | Magna Carta |
| The colonists' model for representative government. | Parliament |
| The handsoff policy of England interfering very little in colonial affairs. | salutary neglect |
| Publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal who stod trial for printing criticism of New Yorks's governor. | John Peter Zenger |
| The final war that decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America. | French and Indian War |
| The first formal proposal to unite the colonies. | Albany Plan of Union |
| The turning point of the French and Indian War. | Battle of Quebec |
| A treaty where Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River. This treaty ended French power in North America. | Treaty of Paris |
| A revolt where Native American groups attacked and destroyed almost every British fort west of the Appalachians. | Pontiac's Rebellion |
| Issued by the British government, this forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians. | Proclamation of 1763 |
| British monarch who wanted to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 and also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies. | King George III |
| Cost saving measure requring the colonies to house British soldiers. | Quartering Act |
| Law that placed a tax on sugar, molasses,etc. shipped to the colonies. It also called for strict enforcement of the act and harsh punishment of smugglers. | Sugar Act |
| Law that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. | Stamp Act |
| A member of the House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the tax. | Patrick Henry |
| Refusal to buy | boycott |
| A famous group including lawyeers, merchants, and crasftpeople who affected the Stamp Act a lot, attacking and protesting constantly. | Sons of Liberty |
| Passed by Parliament in 1767, that suspended NY's assembly until NYers agreed to Quarter. | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | writs of assistants |
| A leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty who protested against the Townshend Acts. | Samuel Adams |
| A fight that begain with a small arguement for freedom. This became an incident for anti-British propaganda in publishments. | Boston Massacre |
| Formed by Samuel Adams to make sure people would not forget the case of liberty. | committee of correspondence |
| An incident when colonists blocked tea ships from landing in the NY City and PH. A group of men snuck on board and destroyed many chests of tea. (1773) | Boston Tea Party |
| Harsh laws passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish the MA colony and to serve as a warning to the other colonies. | Intolerable Acts |
| Delegates from colonies met together determined to uphold colonial rights. | First Continental Congress |
| A Boston silversmith who spread the news of British troops movement with William Dawes. | Paul Revere |
| The first battles of the revolutionary war. | Lexington and Concord |
| Those who supported the British. | Loyalist |
| Those who sided with the rebels. | Patriot |
| Delegates meeting for the second time agreing to form the Continental Army. | Second Continental Congress |
| A leader in the expedition to invade Quebec. He was an officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga. | Benedict Arnold |
| Drafted by the committee in the Congress for the resolution of independence. | Declaration of Independence |
| Part of the committee, he composed the Declaration. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Law that placed tax on tea and importing of tea. | Tea Act |
| Influential writer and speaker. | Thomas Paine |
| Strong commander of the Continental Army. | George Washington |
| A professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country. | mercenary |
| Overall plan of action. | Strategy |
| Series of battles between Burgoyne and Benedict Arnold which served as a turning point of the war. | Battles of Saratoga |
| Long steel knives attached to the ends of guns. | bayonets |
| British general who participated in battles such as one at Camden and Yorktown. | Lord Cornwallis |
| Small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with quick surprise attacks and strategies. | Guerrillas |
| Last major battle of war. Washington and French Rochambeau surrounded and attacked the trapped Cornwallis until he surrendered. | Battle of Yorktown |
| Treaty which ended the Revolutionary War. Included 6 conditions. | Treaty of Paris of 1783. |
| American troops starved, freezed, and were ill to dying. They had no supplies. | Valley forge |
| French nobleman who volunteered in Washington's Army, quickly gained Washington's confidence, and was given the command of a division. | Marquis de Lafayette |
| betrayal to another country. | treason |
| The first government of the United States | Articles of Confederation |
| Law that set up townships in the Western lands, which became known as the Northwest territory | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Land that formed the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota | Northwest Territory |
| Law that organized the Northwest Territory | Northwest Ordinance |
| Anti-tax protest by farmers | Shays's Rebellion |
| Meeting in Philadelphia called to change the Articles of Confederation | Constitutional Convention |
| One of the leaders of the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
| Plan that called for representation in the legislature to be based on states' population or wealth | Virginia Plan |
| Plan that called for each state to have equal representation in the legislature | New Jersey Plan |
| Called for a two-house legislature with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other house | Great Compromise |
| Called for counting three-fifths of the slave population for representation and taxation | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| People who supported ratification of the Constitution | Federalists |
| People who opposed ratification of the Constitution | Antifederalists |
| Essays that explained and defended the Constitution | The Federalist papers |
| Influential Virginian who opposed ratification of the Constitution | George Mason |
| Set of Amendments to the Constitution passed to protect individual rights | Bill of Rights |
| A system of government in which power is shared among the federal government and the states | Federalism |
| Rule by the people | Popular Sovereignty |
| Citizens vote on representatives to be part of the government. | Republicanism |
| Government is divided into separate powers so there will not be over powering. | Separation of Powers |
| Each branch of government checks on one another so it is balanced. | Checks and Balances |
| Giving limited powers to the government. | Limited Government |
| Rights given to all the people to protect their certain rights. | Individual Rights |
| The introduction to the Constitution. | Preamble |
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