Alana STAAR 5

By AlanaHunte5
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    Magna Carta

    Limited the power of the King of England and gave rich, white men more rights.

  • Jamestown

    First successful English colony in America. Founded for tobacco profit.
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    Southern Colonies Formed

    Profit off tobacco (cash crops) was the reason for settlement.
    Geography was fertile soil and flat land.
    Anglican Christian and Roman Catholic were the main religions.

  • Virginia House of Burgess

    First representative Government in America.

  • Mayflower Compact

    Signed in 1620- It bound the new colonists together in a contract.
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    New England Colonies Formed

    Settled for religious freedom.
    Geography was rocky climate, long harsh winters.
    Main religions were Puritans and Pilgrims.

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Form of representative Government in Colonies.
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    Middle Colonies Formed

    Settled for Economic opportunities and religious and political freedom.
    Geography of the region was fertile soils, flat lands and plains.
    Main religions were quakers.

  • Mercantilism

    Economic System between Great Britian and it's colonists.
    Americans felt it violated their freedom.
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    French and Indian War

    Fought between French vs Native Americans vs Great Britain. Increased debt of Great Britain, caused them to increase taxes on the American Colonists.

  • Proclamation Line

    Line set on after the French and Indian War. British colonies to the east, French and Native American to the west of the Appalachian Mountains. May have angered colonists because they have already settled in and area, and would be upset about having to move.

  • Stamp Act

    First tax placed on the American Colonies to pay back the debt caused by the French and Indian War.

  • Stamp Act Congress

    First meeting between multiple colonies to discuss their problems with the King of England.
    "Taxation without Representation."

  • Boston Massacre

    A small battle that resulted in the death of five colonist deaths. Crispus Attuks was the first death of the American Revolution.

  • Boston Tea Party

    To protest the Tea Act, the sons of liberty disguised themselves as Indians and dumped Tea into the Boston Harbor

  • Coercive Intolerable Acts

    Set to punish the colonies for their protests; banned town meetings; allowed british soldiers to be housed in colonists home.

  • First Continental Congress

    Twelve colonies met together to discuss their problems with Great Britain. They did not want independence, just ways to come back together with Great Britain.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    First battle of the Revolution, and was the 'shot heard around the world'.

  • Common Sense

    Pamphlet written my Thomas Paine, spread word about why colonies should become independent.

  • Second Continental Congress

    George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, drafted declaration of independence.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Turning point in the war, Americans won, after they won Spain and France began to back the rebelling colonies, France helped a lot.

  • Winter of Valley Forge

    Many of Washington's troops died due to freezing conditions and lack of supplies.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Frenchman helped. Battle that ended in the British surrendering, ending the revolutionary war.
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    Articles of Confederation

    The government was very weak.
    Government couldn't collect tax money, only states could.
    States controlled most of the power, could choose to or not to help other states, not to pay national government.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Gave American Colonies independence and set new boundaries.
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    George Washington's Presidency

    Set up presidential cabinet.

  • Pinckney's Treaty

    A treaty signed with Spain to allow the U.S. to trade in New Orleans.

  • George Washington's Presidency

    George Washington told us to stay neutral in foreign affairs and have no political parties.
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    John Adam's Presidency

    First president to claim a Political Party.
    Leader of federalist party (strong central government). Aliens and Sedition acts allowed central government to imprison you if you were from a foreign country.
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    Thomas Jefferson's Presidency

    He was the leader of the Democratic Republican Party (States Rights).
    He went to war with Barbary Pirates, this was the first official war the U.S. was involved in and was the first time our Navy was used.

  • Thomas Jefferson's Presidency

    Bought Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and doubled the size of the U.S..

  • Thomas Jefferson's Presidency

    Marbury vs Madison sets up Judicial Review.