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Magna Carta
Limited the power of England, gave rich white men more rights -
Period: 1500 to
Mercantilism
Economic System between Great Britain and its colonies, American colonies provided raw materials for England, which then sold the finish product back the colonies. Americans felt it violated their freedom to trade in with other countries -
Jamestown founded
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 & flat land
Anglican christian and roman catholic -
Virginia House of Burgess
First representative government in america -
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New England colonies formed
Religion believes, start farms & businesses
Atlantic Coast
Puritans -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Form of representative government in american colonies -
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Middle colonies Formed
Economic opportunities~ religious & political freedom
deep rivers, fertile soil, good for growing crops
Quakers/ Great awakening -
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French & Indian War
French & native Americans V.S. Great Britain
Increased debt for Great Britain
Taxes on American colonists -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Line set on after the french & Indian war
Colonists believed that they had the right to settle in Ohio river valley -
Stamp Act
it required a stamp to be put on printed or products
placing tax on the american colonists -
Stamp Act of Congress
First meeting
Their problems with the king of England -
Boston Massacre
People protesting TAXES~ British soldiers got things thrown at them
Crispus Attucks~ 5 colonists dead -
Boston Tea party
to protest the tea act the sons of liberty disguised themselves as Indians
the son of liberty
They disguised themselves as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston harbor -
Coercive (intolerable) Acts
To punish the colonists for protests
banned town meetings allowed for the British to be housed -
First Continental Congress
To discuss their problems with Great Britain
They wanted to come back with great britain -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
First battle of revolution
paul revere
Warmed to try to keep the sons of liberty from being arrested -
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common sense
by Thomas Paine
helped spred the word about about why the colonies should become independent -
Second Continental Congress
George Washington
Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson -
Battle of Saratoga
Americans won
Won against Spain and France began to back the rebelling colonies France helped a lot -
Declaration of Independence
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Sherman and Robert Luiz Maston
John Locke
Laid colonists -
Winter at Valley Forge
George Washington
Troops died due to freezing conditions and lack of supplies -
Battle of Yorktown
Frenchman (marquis de lafayette)
Ended the revolution war -
Constitutional Convention
Delegates comes together to discuss a new form of government, 1787, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, came together because the federal government was not working under the Articles of Confederation -
The Great Compromise
New Jersey (small State Plan) is 1 house legislature.Each state is going to have equal representation. Virginia Plan (large state plan) is Bicameral Legislature = 2 houses of legislative government. Representatives based on state population. Great compromise Bicameral legislature. Senate- each state gets 2 members(NJ plan) House of Representatives- based on state population. -
3/5 compromise
For every 5 slaves, only 3 count. Every slave counts for 60% of a person -
Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison Constitution was good, in favor of ratification. Wrote the federalist papers -
Anti-Federalists papers
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry Thought the constitution didn't give the states enough rights. Wrote the anti-federalist papers and ther were against ratifying the constitution. (Federalist win, constitution is ratified.) -
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George Washington's presidency
he set up the presidential cabinet -
Whiskey Rebellion
A protest to the first tax that was placed after the constitution was written. Washington shut it down with his military -
Pinckney's treaty
A treaty signed with Spain to allow the U.S. to trade in New Orleans -
Washington's Farewell Address
told us to stay NEUTRAL in foreign affairs and avoid political partis -
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John Adams Presideny
First president to claim political party, he was a leader of the federalists party. passed the aliens & sedition which Allowed the central (federal) government to imprison you if you were from a foreign country -
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
He was a leader of the democratic-republican party (states rights)
Barbary pirates, this was the first official war the us was involved in and was the first our navy was used -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson bought Louisiana from France, doubled the size of the U.S. -
Marbury V. Madison
sets up the judicial review