Unit 1 Colonial to Constitution
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| Name for a colonial militia who was ready in a short time | Minuteman
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| Group of separatists that settled at Plymouth | Pilgrims
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| This man secured land for the Quakers in the colonies | William Penn
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| Name given to the religious revival of the 1730s | Great Awakening
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| This term refers to the use of scientific reasoning to solve your problems in the mid 1700s | Enlightenment
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| Name given to the British response to the Boston Tea Party | Coercive or Intolerable Acts
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| This was passed by Parliament resulting in the Patriot rallying cry of "No taxation without representation" | Stamp Act
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| John Locke came up with this theory about the relationship between Government and it's people | Social Contract Theory
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| The name for colonists who supported the king | Loyalist or Torry
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| The name for colonists that supported Independence | Patriot
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| American Government set up in 1781 to replace the second continental congress-proposed by John Dickenson | Articles of Confederation
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| A person who agrees to give 4-7 years of his life for passage to America | Indentured Servant
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| Agreement at the Constitutional Convention which settled the issue concerning Congress's structure | Great Compromise
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| James Madison's Plan supporting large states at the Constitutional Convention | Virginia Plan
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| Plan at Constitutional Convention that supported the smaller states | New Jersey Plan
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| What was Daniel Shay protesting | Taxes
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| The people supported a strong National Government | Federalists
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| This was created by the Articles of Confederation Gov't setting up a blue print for settling new land | Land Ordinance of 1785
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| These people wanted a weak central government and strong state govvernments | Anti Federalists
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| This officially ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris 1783
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| This is a type of government that shares power between the national and state governments | Federalism
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| This man wrote a pro independence pamphlet called Common Sense | Tom Paine
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| This was a secret Patriot group founded by Sam Adams | Sons of Liberty
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| These groups were used to spread patriot news throughout the colonies | Committees of Correspondence
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| This act from parliament in 1763 forbid colonials from crossing the Appalachian mountains | Proclamation of 1763
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| The famous ship John Paul Jones used to defeat the British ship Serapis | Bonhomme Richard
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| A fast American ship used to raid British merchant ships | Privateers
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| This ensures equality among the 3 branches of American Government | System of Checks and Balances
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| This man wrote the declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson
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| This man was the first secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton
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| This man led the Puritans in settling Mass. Colony | John Winthrop
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| The worst part of the Triangular trade for slaves was called the? | Middle Passage
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| Why did the British march to Lexington and concord | To seize ammunition and to arrest Sam Adams
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| This battle in Boston was a British victory mainly because the Colonists ran out of ammunition | Bunker Hill
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| This man helped the US by denying the British the use of New Orleans | Bernardo de Galvez
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| This was the site of the Constitutional Convention | Philadelphia
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| Anti Federalists originally opossed the Constitution because it was missing what? | Bill of Rights
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| This women helped the revolutionary cause by writing pamphlets for independence | Mercy Otis Warren
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| Cecelius Calvert helped establish what colony for Catholics | Maryland
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| James Oglethorpe helped to establish what colony as a buffer against the Spanish | Georgia
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| Washington surprised the British garison of Hessian soldiers at this town in New Jersey | Trenton
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| He was known as the Swamp fox | Francis Marion
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| He was known as a "gentleman" to his troops and surrndered at Saratoga | Johnny Burgoyne
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| This man led the British war effort in the South and surrendered to Washington at Yorktown | Lord Cornwallis
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| This was the British Prime Minister during the French and Indian War | William Pitt
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| This woman was told to leave by the Puritans because of her religious beliefs | Anne Hutchinson
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| This British man was hung as a spy when found with plans for West Point . | John Andre
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| This woman dressed up as a man in order to fight in the Rev. War | Deborah Sampson
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| This man secured victory at Yorktown by fending off the British Fleet | Admiral de Grasse
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| This young frenchman befriended Washington and later commanded American troops in the Rev. War | Marquis de Lafayette
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| This man helped to train Washington's army at Valley Forge | Baron von Stueben
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| This Finance Minister of England proposed a series of new taxes on the colonists after the Stamp Act was repealed. | Charles Townsend
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| He was named Commander of the Patriot Army by the 2nd Continental Army | George Washington
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| This is the name of England's law making body. | Parliament
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| What battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War | Battle of Saratoga
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| Where did American General Herkimer win a major victory over British General St. Leger? | Battle of Mohawk Valley or Oriskany
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| What Battle helped Americans gain control of Georgia and the Carolinas | Battle of Cowpens
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| Thomas Jefferson was the author of what famous document | Declaration of Independence
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| How many amendments to the Constitution are there? | 27
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| The battle of Bunker Hill took place in this city | Boston
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| What war were the British trying to pay for by raising Colonial taxes | French and Indian or 7 Years War
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| Colony in which Lexington and Concord are located | Mass.
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| Name one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers | Madison, Jay, Hamilton
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| What were those against ratification of the Constitution called | Anti-Federalists
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| Commodity that continued to be taxed after the Townshend Acts were repealed | Tea
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| Religion of France | Catholic
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| Trade route controlled by French city of New Orleans | Mississippi River
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| Monarch of England during the Revolutionary War | King George III
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| What peace treaty ended the French and Indian War | Treaty of Paris 1763
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