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Period: Oct 24, 1400 to
Benchmark #1 and #2
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John Smith
Founder of Jamestown. Was sent by Jointstock company to create new town. An adventurous explorer, mapmaker, and soldier -
Jamestown
100 men recruited by John Smith came to the United States to make money. They chose a a location near the river along Chesapeake Bay. -
Puritants
Protestans who wished to purify the Catholic Church. -
Indetured Servants
People who where from the age of 15-21 who came to america but they were bound for a period of years to the person who paid for there way to america. -
Pilgrims
Pilgrims are people who left England because of relgious conflict. -
Enlightenment
a revloution of ideas. America was influenzed by the enlightenment thinkers, John Locke who was an english philospher who developed the "natural rights". Life.Liberty. and Proberty -
mercantilism
The founding of the restoartion colonies was driven by the crowns faith in the economic policy. Mercantilists held that a nations power was a prodcut of wealth and a nations wealth was measured by its stock of precious metals -
Bacons Rebellion
Three slaves were fighting over land that wasn't theres. -
Glorious Revolution
A bloodless rebellion by the protestants. -
Shays rebellion
They rebelled due to taxes lost ther land and he almost took over massechuettes -
Great Awakening
A series of relgious revivals that swept through Britain during the mid-1700s. -
Proclamation of 1763
THe proclamtion was used to organized great britains new north american empire and to stabilize relations with North Americans through regulation of trade settlements on the western frontier. -
Sugar act
The sugar act was this tax on all sugars and molasses. -
Quatering act
required colonist to house and feed random soldiers. -
Stamp act
The stamp act was taxes on all printed goods -
Townshed act
It placed imported duties on common house old items like tea,lead,glass, and stuff for paint. -
Boston Massacre
A crowd yelled insults and started throwing rocks, oyster shells and pieces of coals all those events led to a roit with no room to move it has been told that a soldier fell and fired hes gun which started open fire. 5 colonist lay there dead and serval injured. -
Boston Tea Party
colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into boston harbor -
Bill of rights
Guarntees U.S citizens specific right such as freedom of speech religion and the press -
consitutional convention
helped strengthen the government. -
federalits
wanted stronger central government -
John Marshall
HE came up with the judicial review. The judicial review gave the three branches equal power -
Louisiana purchase
THe louisiana purchased by Thomas jefferson soled by napoleon boneparte
They sent lewis n clark on expedition
1000 miles up stream in 6months
15 million , 4 cents per acer -
Virgina plan
Shifted politcal power from the states to the central government -
new Jersey plan
one vote per state -
anti federalist
people who wanted a weaker government -
Articles of conf.
weak central government.one vote per state -
Great compromise
A compromise between new jersey plan and virgina plan. Let everyone in each state have a vote -
Southern Society
Based on agriculture
Slave labor
They didnt have to pay the slaves
rich farmers lived by river
Poor lived away from rivers, middle class farmers live in between the two -
Northern Society
Industrial
poor class-sent women and children to work for lil to nothing
irish immigrants came to work lil for nothing -
Transportaion Revolution
They started with canals ,steam boats steam engine, railroads, and then trains. -
1st industrial revolution
Factory -
Slave system
75 were enslaved and work on plantations.
there diet consist of grits meat and rice
lasted one week
some stole from there owners cause there share wasnt enough
they were whipped when punished