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| show | 1607
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| What year was Plymouth founded? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses? | show 🗑
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| show | Joint stock company
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| show | indentured servant
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| show | Puritan
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| show | William Penn
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| A written contract, issued by a government, giving the holder the right to establish a colony. | show 🗑
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| First Representative Assembly in the American colonies created in 1619. | show 🗑
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| A set of laws that were established in 1639 by a Puritan congregation (Thomas Hooker) who settled in the Connecticut Valley and that expanded the idea of representative government. | show 🗑
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| A person who believed all people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups. | show 🗑
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| First English Settlement in North American established in 1607. | show 🗑
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| show | Pilgrim
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| show | Royal Colony
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| A soldier and adventurer who tool control Jamestown in 1608. He helped Jamestown grow and to make sure the colonists worked, he used this method: “He that will not work, shall not eat”. | show 🗑
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| show | Mayflower Compact
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| show | Proprietary colony
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| show | James Oglethorpe
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| show | Curiosity, wealth, fame, national pride, religion, foreign goods, and faster, cheaper trade routes
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| show | Land – better soil for crops, gold/money, gory, god, over-population, power, bad governor
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| What is the significance of the years 1607 and 1620? | show 🗑
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| What is the importance of the Magna Carta, House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut? | show 🗑
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| A colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far western part of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. | show 🗑
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| show | Subsistence farming
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| A trading route with three stops: New England import rum and iron to Africa. Africa trade it for slaves and import the slaves to West Indies where they exchanged it for sugar and molasses and import it to New England. | show 🗑
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| show | Navigation acts
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| Illegally import or export goods. | show 🗑
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| show | Cash crop
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| A variety of people. | show 🗑
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| A plant grown in the Southern colonies that yields a deep blue dye. | show 🗑
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| show | Overseer
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| A mountain range running from Alabama into Canada. | show 🗑
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| show | Land – soil, weather, climate
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| show | Religion, better life style
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| show | They passed the Navigation Acts that had four major provisions designed to ensure that England made money from its colonies' trade
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| What was the significance of the triangle trade? | show 🗑
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| Explain the reasons for the development of the plantation system? | show 🗑
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| Describe the major geographical features of each colonial region. (New England, Middle and Southern) | show 🗑
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| Describe the major economic activities for each colonial region. | show 🗑
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| A religious movement in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. | show 🗑
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| show | Jonathan Edwards
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| Another preacher for the Great Awakening; he inspired colonists to help others. He drew thousands of people and raise funds to start a home for orphans. | show 🗑
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| A intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge. | show 🗑
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| A famous American Enlightenment figure who used reason to improve society. He is also a famous scientist. | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| A document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215; also called “Great Chapter”. | show 🗑
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| England's chief lawmaking body | show 🗑
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| A hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s | show 🗑
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| A publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal; He stood a trial for printing criticism of New York's governor. | show 🗑
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| A conflict in North America from 1754 to 1763 and became part of the Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763), a worldwide struggle for empire between France and Britain. | show 🗑
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| show | Albany Plan of Union
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| show | Treaty of Paris 1763
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| An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. | show 🗑
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| A revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led Native Americans by Ottawa war letter Pontiac, in response to settlers' claims of their lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers. | show 🗑
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| What was the Great Awakening and what was it impact on the American colonies? | show 🗑
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| What was the Enlightenment and what was its impact on the American colonies? | show 🗑
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| What was the Albany Plan of Union? Whose idea was it? | show 🗑
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| What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris 1763? | show 🗑
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| show | They passed the Proclamation of 1763 so the colonists wouldn't settled west of the Appalachian Mountain.
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| show | King George III
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| A act passed in 1765 to save money for British troops by requiring the colonists to provided them housing and supplies. | show 🗑
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| show | Stamp Act
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| show | Patrick Henry
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| A refusal to buy certain goods. | show 🗑
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| show | Sons of Liberty
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| A series of laws passed in 1767 that suspended New York's assemble and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies. | show 🗑
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| search warrants that allowed British officers to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods. | show 🗑
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| show | Samuel Adams
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| A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which 5 colonists, including Crispus Attucks , were killed. | show 🗑
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| A group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs. | show 🗑
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| Sons of Liberty organized Boston Tea Party in response to the Tea Act; dressed up as Indians and board on three tea ships, dumping 342 tea chests into Boston Harbor. | show 🗑
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| A series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party; also called Coercive Acts. | show 🗑
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| show | 1st Continental Congress
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| A messenger who spread news about British troop movements on April 18, 1775 at night. | show 🗑
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| Those who supported the British. | show 🗑
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| Wanted freedom from British; sided with the rebels. | show 🗑
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| Battles on April 19, 1775 that marked the start of the Revolution War. | show 🗑
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| A meeting of delegates in May 1775 to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence. | show 🗑
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| show | Benedict Arnold
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| Wrote the Declaration of Independence. | show 🗑
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| The document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain. | show 🗑
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| show | They were in debt and needed money.
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| Why were the colonists upset by all the taxes being levied by the British? | show 🗑
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| What role did the Sons of Liberty play in protesting the various acts Britain passed? | show 🗑
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| What was the 1st Continental Congress and what did it accomplish? | show 🗑
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| show | The Boston Massacre became a tool for anti-British propaganda in newspaper articles, pamphlets, and posters.
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| show | The core idea is based on the philosopher of John Locke – idea is that people have unalienable rights, or rights that government cannot take away.
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| show | Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
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| Commander of the Continental Army; one of the American generals. | show 🗑
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| show | Mercenary
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| An overall plan of action. | show 🗑
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| Series of conflicts that led to British surrender and turning point of the Revolution War. | show 🗑
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| Long steel knives attached to the ends of guns. | show 🗑
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| show | Desert
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| Privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack an enemy’s merchant ships. | show 🗑
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| show | John Paul Jones
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| One of the British generals; surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown | show 🗑
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| Small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit and run tactic. | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Yorktown
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| show | Treaty of Paris 1783
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| show | Valley Forge
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| 19 year old French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington’s army. | show 🗑
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| show | He was the commander of the Continental Army that helped unite Americans
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| show | Valley Forge was in the winter, it was snowy and bitter cold.
Soldiers has little supplies, clothes and no shoes as they walked through the snow.
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| How did the countries of Spain and France help the Americans? | show 🗑
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| What were the advantages of the British during the war? | show 🗑
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| What were the advantages of the Americans during the war? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. United States was independent
2. Mississippi River – west, Canada – north, and Spanish Florida – south
3. U.S. receive rights to fish on Canada's Atlantic Coast
4. repay debts it owed
5. British would leave their forts
6. Exchanged prisoners
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| show | Articles of Confederation
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| A law that passed to dividing and selling public lands in Northwest Territory | show 🗑
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| Territory consisted of 5 states and part of the 6th state: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota | show 🗑
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| It described how the Northwest Territory would be governed and set conditions for settlement and settler's rights (1787) | show 🗑
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| uprising in Massachusetts led by farmers in debt | show 🗑
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| A meeting held at Philadelphia in 1787 of 55 delegates to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation, but ended up drafting the Constitution | show 🗑
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| One of the ablest delegates who read more than a hundred books on government in preparation for the Constitutional Convention and written the bill of rights of the Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | Virginia Plan
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| show | New Jersey Plan
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| For smaller states, representation will be equal in Senate. For larger states, representation would be based on state's population in House of Representatives. Proposed stronger government with 3 branches and 2-house legislature | show 🗑
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| show | Three-Fifths Compromise
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| The people who supported the Constitution. | show 🗑
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| show | Anti-Federalists
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| A series of essay defending and explaining the Constitution | show 🗑
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| Delegate of the Constitutional Convention who refused to signed the Constitution until a bill of rights was added | show 🗑
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| show | Bill of Rights
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| What were the strengths of the Articles of Confederation? | show 🗑
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| What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? | show 🗑
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| show | Land Ordinance of 1785 divided and sold public lands in the Northwest Territory
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 describe how the territory would be govern
They are important because they set a pattern for the orderly growth of the United States
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| What roles did George Washington, James Madison, Roger Sherman and Benjamin Franklin have at the Constitutional Convention? | show 🗑
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| Who were the leading Federalist and the leading Anti-Federalists? | show 🗑
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| Why are the Federalist Papers significant? | show 🗑
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| Why was the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| A government in which the people rule | show 🗑
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| show | Republicanism
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| A system of government in which power is shared between the states and national government | show 🗑
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| show | Separation of Powers
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| Each branch of government can exercise checks, or controls, over the other branches; they must work together to get the work done | show 🗑
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| Everyone from citizens to powerful leaders must obey the laws | show 🗑
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| Rights that are personal liberties and privileges; rights that the government cannot taken away | show 🗑
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| show | Preamble
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| Which articles of the Constitution discusses the power of the executive branch? | show 🗑
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| Which articles of the Constitution discusses the power of the judicial branch? | show 🗑
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| Which articles of the Constitution discusses the power of the legislative branch? | show 🗑
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| What is the purpose of a veto? | show 🗑
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| show | Amendment 1 – religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of press, the right of the people peaceably to assembly, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
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| show | Amendment 3
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| The abuse of writs of assistance by the British led to which amendment? | show 🗑
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| show | Democracy
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| A government which people elect representatives to govern for them | show 🗑
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| show | Parliamentary democracy
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| A government ruled by a hereditary king, queen or emperor | show 🗑
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| show | Constitutional monarchy
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| A monarchy that has a democratically elected government that works in the monarch's name. They are head of state and allow the ministers of the democratically elected government to make the decisions. | show 🗑
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| show | Dictatorship
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| Small group of people totally controlled the country | show 🗑
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| French and Indian War started in what year? | show 🗑
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| show | 1763
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| show | 1770
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| What year did the Tea Act passed and Boston Tea Party happened? | show 🗑
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| What year did these happened: Lexington and Concord – marked the started of the Revolution War, Battle of Bunker Hill, Olive Branch Petition, British retreat from Boston | show 🗑
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| What year did these happened: Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Revolution War starts – Trenton and Princeton | show 🗑
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| show | 1777
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| show | 1783
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| show | 1787
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