Foundations of American History
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| show | Group of electors, chosen by the voters, who vote for President
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| show | Opponents of the Constitution during the debate over its ratification; opposed to the concept of a strong central government
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| show | Written by Madison in response to the fears of a federal government coming under the control of one powerful fraction- it said that because US was so big no single faction could control the government.
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| The Federalists Papers | show 🗑
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| Election of 1789 | show 🗑
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| show | Belief that the government can do anything that the Constitution does not prohibit
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| show | Unrest in 1794 caused by opposition to a tax on whiskey
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| Alexander Hamilton | show 🗑
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| Judiciary Act of 1789 | show 🗑
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| Townshend Act | show 🗑
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| show | Person who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution
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| Battle of Saratoga | show 🗑
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| show | Plan of government that describes the different parts f the government and their duties and powers
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| Thomas Jefferson | show 🗑
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | show 🗑
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| Virginia Plan | show 🗑
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| Executive Branch | show 🗑
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| 3/5th Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | A crop that is in constant demand, such as cotton, wheat or rice
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| show | One leg of the triangular trade; term also used to refer to the forced transport of slaves
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| show | King of England in the 1680’s
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| show | Wealthy class
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| French and Indian War | show 🗑
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| show | First President of the United States 1789-1797 led American forces in war
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| show | Order by the British King that closed the region west of Appalachian Mountains to colonists
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| Declaratory Act | show 🗑
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| show | An anti-stamp act group, founded by Samuel Adams
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| Intolerable Acts | show 🗑
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| show | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January 1776, which called for American Independence from Britain
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| show | A Spanish explorer
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| Columbus | show 🗑
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| show | Certificate of permission given by the government
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| Legislature | show 🗑
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| Jamestown | show 🗑
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| Puritan | show 🗑
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| show | Agreement in which the settlers of Plymouth Colony agreed to obey their governments’ laws
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| show | The prosecution and execution of 20 women and men for witchcraft in Massachusetts in 1692
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| show | War, beginning in 1675, between English colonies and Native Americans
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| show | Founder of the Puritan colony and governor, writer/orator of “A Model of Christianity Charity.”
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| show | English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681
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| show | A colony granted by a king or queen to an individual or a group that has full governing rights
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| show | A tax by England to America that controlled colonial trade. It required colonies to sell certain goods, including sugar, tobacco and cotton, only to England.
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| show | Mary was the Protestant daughter of James II (of England) and William was her consort, William of Orange
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| show | Religious revival in the American colonies during the 1730’s and 1740’s
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| Jonathan Edwards | show 🗑
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| Albany Plan of Union | show 🗑
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| show | Colonial inventor, printer, writer, statesman; contributed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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| William Pitt | show 🗑
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| Stamp Act | show 🗑
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| show | Passed in 1764, marked the start of a new British policy designed to raise money. It cut duty on foreign molasses by half, in order to increase the amount of imported molasses
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| show | A gathering in several colonies for a meeting to plan a united response to the Intolerable Acts (became known as the First Continental Congress)
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| show | It was created by the British in order to save the East India Company. It allowed the company to sell its surplus tea in the American colonies. The act retained the import tax on tea. (Caused the Boston Tea Party)
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| show | First battles of the Revolutionary War, on April 19th, 1775
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| Thomas Paine | show 🗑
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| show | a 1776 statement, issued by the second continental congress, explaining why the colonies wanted their independence from Britain
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| Battle of Bunker Hill | show 🗑
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| show | Revolutionary War battle in 1776 in Virginia, won by the Confederacy.
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| John Adams | show 🗑
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| Articles of Confederation | show 🗑
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| Shay’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| show | An opposition to the Virginia Plan, as created by the small states (William Paterson of New Jersey), having the key features: Congress the right to tax, creation of executive and judicial branches, every state equal vote in Congress
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| Judicial Branch | show 🗑
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| show | Of New Jersey, proposer of the New Jersey Plan
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| Edmund Randolph | show 🗑
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| Enlightenment | show 🗑
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| Baron de Montesquieu | show 🗑
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| Alexander Hamilton | show 🗑
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| Encomienda System | show 🗑
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| show | A Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs
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| show | Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and loses
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| show | Virginia legislature formed in 1619
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| show | Leader of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in the early 1600s
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| show | Member of a protestant group that emphasize equality
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| Great Migration | show 🗑
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| Sachem | show 🗑
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| show | Participated in the drawing up of the Mayflower Contract; was elected governor of the colony 30 times; helped create a form of government in which the people guided their own affairs; wrote a moving history of the colony
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| show | English colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
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| James Oglethorpe | show 🗑
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| show | Great Britain’s policy in the early 1700’s of not interfering in the American colonies
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| show | Trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa
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| James II | show 🗑
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| Dominion of New England | show 🗑
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| John Peter Zenger | show 🗑
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| George Whitefield | show 🗑
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| Treaty of Paris (1763) | show 🗑
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| show | Incident on March 5th, 1770, in which British soldiers in Boston killed 5 colonists
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| Pontiac’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| show | A congress about the 1765 laws passed by British Parliament that taxed newspapers
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| show | From Massachusetts, began the Stamp Act Congress
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| show | See Committee of Correspondence
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| 2nd Continental Congress | show 🗑
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| Oliver Branch Petition | show 🗑
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| Natural Rights | show 🗑
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| Battle of Trenton | show 🗑
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| Treaty of Paris (1783) | show 🗑
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| Bill of Rights | show 🗑
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | show 🗑
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| Constitutional Convention | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of government that makes the laws
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| Great Compromise | show 🗑
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| James Madison | show 🗑
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| show | A judge from Conn., member of a committee to prepare the Declaration of Independence
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| show | English philosopher, supported the revolution
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| Federalist | show 🗑
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| John Jay | show 🗑
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| show | First to cross the “South Sea” from the Americas (Portuguese) explored on Spanish ships
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| show | Conquistador set out to conquer Incas (Peru)
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| show | Colony with a governor appointed by the King
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| Bacon’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| New England Colonies | show 🗑
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| show | one of a group of English separatists who established Plymouth Colony
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| show | Treaty between Spain and US that was named after Thomas Pinckney, American diplomat, included: the southern boundary of the United States was 31, America could use the Mississippi River, Spain would control their Native Americans
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| show | Controversy in 1798 over French demands for bribes from American negotiators
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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | Changed how the President ran, had to specify whether it was for vice or president
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