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25 Cards in this Set
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The Age of Exploration
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explorers looking for a route to Asia
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The invasion of Mexico
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Spanish explorers conquered Mexico and took Native Americans as slaves and many Indians died of diseases like smallpox
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The Founding of Jamestown
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Virginia 1607
1st permanent English settlement founded!!! John Smith founded for trade and wealth |
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The Founding of Plymouth
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Pilgrims for religious freedom;William Bradford, landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
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The Founding of Massachusetts (Bay)
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John Winthrop and Puritans
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The Founding of Connecticut
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Thomas Hooker and religious freedom
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The Founding of Rhode Island
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Roger Williams and religious freedom
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The Founding of Pennsylvania
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William Penn and religious freedom
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The Founding of Maryland
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Catholics and Calvert
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The Founding of Georgia
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James Oglethorpe, place for debtors and prisoners
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The Glorious Revolution
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gave the elected representatives more
power than the king and more power to the people |
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The Great Awakening
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religious revival that encouraged a return to strong faith
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The Navigation Acts
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law saying the colonies could only trade with England
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The French and Indian War
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British vs the French and Indians, the British won and gained the LAND in North America
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Taxes (England charged the colonists)
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angered the colonists because their rights were taken away and helped cause the American Revolutionary War
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The Sugar Act
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tax on sugar
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The Stamp Act
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tax on printed material
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The Declaratory Acts
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British could tax in all cases
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The Townsend Acts
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tax on all imported goods
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The Tea Act
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tax on tea
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The Quartering Act
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Colonists were forced to house British soldiers
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The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
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punish the people of Boston
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The Boston Massacre
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5 people were killed when the British fired on the colonists
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The Boston Tea Party
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Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped British tea into the ocean in protest and boycotted the tea tax.
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The writing of Common Sense
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A Pamphlet to convince ordinary people to want complete independence from Britain, written by Thomas Paine
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