History Term and Definitions
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What is a primary source? | A first hand account
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What is a Culture | People's way of life And a specific belief
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indentured servant | An immigrant who's trip is paid
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What is a charter | A formal Document issued by the king
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What is a Democratic? | It is ruled by the people. So all of the power is within the people.
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What is an Economy | A way the the economy organizes products
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What is the Great Awakening? | The revival of a religious feeling and belief in the American Colonies that began in the 1730's
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What is the slave trade? | The business of capturing and selling people as slaves
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Cash crop | A crop sold for profit.
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Spanish Borderlands | Spanish territory in the United States
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Missionaries | A soldier that travels to a territory
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Militia | A small army made up of ordinary citizens
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Parliament | The lawmaking body of England
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Boycott | To peacefully protest about a law
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Repeal | To take back a law
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The Northwest Passage | A passage through the Northwest
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Patriot | Against the British
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Loyalist | with(Loyal) to the British
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Treaty | An agreement
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The Continental Army | The American Army during the American Revolution
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Blockade | To block off an area to prevent people from coming in or out
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The Ohio Valley | The site of the battle against the British and the French
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George Washington | The 1st president of the U.S.
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John Adams | 2nd President. Made bad decisions
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Thomas Jefferson | Wrote part of the Declaration of Independence
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James Madison | 4th President
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James Monroe | Created the Monroe Doctrine
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Andrew Jackson | Created the Jacksonian Democracy
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Congress | The people who make laws
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Republic | A form of government in which citizens can vote on their choosing of their leader
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Bicameral | Two-House
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Senate | A House with an equal amount of Representatives
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What is the house of Representatives | When each state gets the same amount of representatives per state
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Electoral Collage | A group that was established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. And voters
from each state choose their electors
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Northern Ordinance | How the western land would be governed
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ratification | Approving on an agreement
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Three-Fifths Compromise | An agreement that an enslaved person of voting is three-fifths of a person.
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What is the Articles of Confederation | The first written plan of the government
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What is an arsenal? | A weapon warehouse
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What is the Constitutional Convention | A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787. Wrote the Constitution
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Neutrality | not to be a republican or a Federalist
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isolationism | To avoid military agreement
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Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory
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Treaty of Paris | 1783. The U.S signed the treaty of Paris
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What is the treaty of Ghent | To stop the war against the British and the Americans
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What is a war hawk | People who likes wars
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July 4, 1776 | The declaration was signed.
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1812 | War of 1812
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Trail of Tears | The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia
to Indian territory in 1838 and 1839
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