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Plymouth Colony
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Who: English separatists also known as Pilgrims, named by Captain John Smith
Where: Venture to North America from 1620-1691. Plymouth, Massachusetts. What: First sizable English settlement in New England region. Significance: Known as the first Thanksgiving, also a place of religious beliefs. |
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Mayflower Compact 1620
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Who: The pilgrims from Plymouth Rock.
Where: Crossed the Atlantic, aboard the Mayflower. Significance: Seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their wishes of the English Church. |
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Headright System
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Who: Virginia Company of London
Where: Jamestown, Virginia What: Attempt to solve labor shortages, due to the trade of tobacco. Significance: Increased the division between the wealthy landowners and the working poor. |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639
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Who: Connecticut Colony
Where: Connecticut River towns What: A compromise for use of shared land between colonies. Significance: Is considered by some as the first written Constitution in the Western tradition. |
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Mercantilism
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Who: Economic Theory
Where: Early modern period What: The prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of the capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable." Significance: It has somewhat of an influence on modern life today, but mainly has disappeared throughout time. |
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Triangular Trade
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Who: West Africa, the Caribbean, or American colonies and the European
What: Indicating trade among three ports or regions. Where: Across the ocean Significance: the trade of cash crops like sugar, tobacco and copper. |
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The Great Awakening
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Who: Protestant Reformation
Where: Revival in Anglo-American history. What: Revivalism of Christianity. Significance: Influence on political life. |
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Iron Act 1750
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Who: Legislative measures by the British Parliament
Where: Great Britain What: Restricting manufacturing activities in British colonies. Significance: Made people have to |
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Indentured Servants
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Who: Irish, Scottish, English and Germans.
What: Unlike a slave, they were only required to work for the specified limit in their contract. Where: North America, The Caribbean, Australia, Pacific and Indian Ocean. Significance: Has had influence on the indentured servitude of modern day uses, not for good. |
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George Washington
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Who: Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the First president of the United States of America. Often referred to as the father of America.
What: A founding father, dealt with foreign affairs and Acts. Where: Mount Vernon, private estate. Significance: “Father of his country”, also referred to as the man on the one-dollar bill. |
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Proclamation of 1763
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Who: Issued by King George III, toward the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
Where: Quebec, West Florida, East Florida, and Grenada. What: The Royal Proclamation ceased to be law in the United States following the American Revolution. Significance: To organize Great Britain's new Native North Americans through regulation to trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. |
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Salutary Neglect
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Who: British
What: Policy avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, which were meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Where: The emergence separated from Great Britain Significance: Used to enforce the English policies of the Seven Years' War |
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Stamp Act 1765
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Who: Tax imposed by the British Parliament
What: Seen as a violation of the right of Englishmen Where: Territory of New France. Significance: Help for troops stationed in North America following the British Victory in the Seven Years' War. |
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Stamp Act Congress
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Who: House of Representatives,
What: Trail to jury, a right of self-taxation, and reducing admiralty courts. Where: Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire and those from New York were delegates of particular counties within the colony. Significance: Parliament had the authority to regulate trade it could be constructed as an admission that an external tax to raise revenue was acceptable. |
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Sons of Liberty
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Who: American patriots.
What: Secret organization Where: Thirteen colonies during the American Revolution Significance: Later societies such as during the American Civil War |
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Committees of Crrespondence
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Who: Part of the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolutionary war.
What: Established in Boston, opposition to the Currency Act Where: Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina Significance: prompted the colonies to form Committees of Correspondence. |
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Boston Mssacre
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Who: British Troops
What: deaths of five civilians. Where: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry Significance: Events such as the Tea Act and ensuring the Boston Tea Party were examples of the crumbling relationship between Britain and the colonies. |
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Intolerable (coercive) Acts 1774
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Who: British Parliament
What: Parliamentary authority that began by the Stamp Act 1765 Where: Britain’s colonies in North America Significance: Response to Boston Tea Party, |
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Second Continental Congress 1775
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Who: Thirteen colonies
What: raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Significance: Soon leading into the Declaration of Independence |
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Northwest Ordinance
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Who: Congress of Confederation.
What: creation of organized territory Where: Untied States Significance: Soon banning slavery in the territory had the effect of establishing the Ohio River ad the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mts. and the Mississippi River. |
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Declaration of Independence
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Who: Continental Congress, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
What: Independent from Great Britain, outbreak to American Revolutionary War. Where: Washington D.C. Significance: Justified the independence of the U.S, stating human rights. |
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Shays Rebellion
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Who: Farmers angered by what they felt to be crushing debt and taxes.
What: Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the Country. Where: Central and Western Massachusetts Significance: Finical crisis, demanded payment in gold and silver. |
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Implied Powers (Elastic Clause)
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Who: The Air Force as an implied power because the constitution did not give the power of the Air Force to the federal government.
Where: Maryland What: Elastic Clause in Section 8 of Article 1 of the U.S. Significance: political idea expressed in some of the European Union decisions. (Elastic |
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Common Sense
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Who: Thomas Paine
What: Powerful argument for independence from Britain rule Where: UK Significance: To gain independence from Britain to US |
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Great Compromise
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Who: House of Representatives.
What: Agreement between large and small states reached during Philadelphia Convention of 1787, in part determining the legistalative structure and representation that each state would have under the U.S. Constitution. Where: Connecticut. Significance: This proposal was known as the Virginia Plan, relation to Articles of Confederation. |
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Stamp Act
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Where: Netherlands, then enforced in other areas around the world.
What:A law enacted by the government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. When: 1624 Who: Colonists Significance: New methods for the development of adhesive stamps. |
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Decloratory Act
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What: Stated that the parliament had the right to make laws for the colonies.
Where: During America's colonial period. Who: Parliament of Great Britain. When: 1766 Significance: Seen as the predecessor for future acts, further incite of anger. |
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Quartering Act
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What: Parliament of Great Britain
Where: American Colonies When: 1765 Who: By British forces Significance: Stated in Declaration of Independence, follows in for Third Amendement of the U.S. Constution. |
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Townshend Act
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What: To raise revenue, in paying governors and judges.
Where: British Colonies in North America. When:1767 Who: Parliament of Great Britain Significance: Prompting the Boston Massacre, allowed East India Company to trade. |
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Boston Massacre
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What: An incident killing five civilians, causing a legal aftermath.
Where: Boston When: 1770 Who: British troops Significance: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, helped spark the American Revolution |
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Tea Act
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What: Keeping people from smuggling trade goods for the East Indian Company
Where: America and India When: passed 1773 Who: Parliament of Great Britain Significance: Leading to the Boston Tea Party. |
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Boston Tea Party
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What: Colonists protests
Where: colony of Massachusetts, Boston. Who: Samuel Adams helped organize the rebellion, against the British government. When: 1773 Significance: Referenced in protests, such as Gandi's revolt. |
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Coercive Acts
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What: Resistance of the Thirteen colonies to
Where: British colonies in North America. When: 1774 Who: passed by the British Parliament Significance: Creation of the independence of the United States of America. |
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Mutiny Act
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What:Military control on Society.
Where: When: originally passed in 1689 Who: British Parliament Significance: They were amendments that added quartering requirements for British troops in the American Colonies. |
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Samuel Adams
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What: Political philosopher
Where: Boston When: Involved in the Bristish Parliament in 1768. Who: Leader of the American Revolution. Graduate of Harvard. Significance: One of the Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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King William's War
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What: First of the French and Indian War.
Where: Dominion of New England Who:England, France, and American Indians. When: June 1689 Significance: Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which led to peace among the colonial borders, didn't last long and soon lead to Queen Anne's war. |
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Queen Anne's War
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What: Second of the French and Indian War's.
Where: Hudson Bay When: 1702-1713 Who: France and England and later Great Britain. also American Indians. Significance: Independence of the Indian tribe of Iroquois. Britain gained territory. |
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Peace of Utrecht
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What: Peace treaties.
Where: Dutch city of Utrecht Who: Louis XIV of France and Philip V of Spain, and representatives of Queen Anne of Great Britain, the Duke of Savoy, and the United Provinces. When: 1713 Significance:Led to the French Revolution. |
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War of Jenkins' Ear
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What:Conflict between Great Britain and Spain.
When: 1739 to 1748 Who: Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship who got a severed ear of the Parliament. Significance:Lead to the war against the Spanish Empire. |
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Paxton Boys
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What:vigilante group that murdered at least twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre.
Where: Central Pennsylvania. Near Paxton Church. When: 1763 Significance:The predjuice against Natives. |
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Grenville's Program
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Patrick Henry
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What: One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Where: Colony of Virginia. When: 1776 to 1779 Who: First post-colonial Governor of Virginia. Significance: "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" |
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SONS OF LIBERTY
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What: A group of Loyalists.
Where:Thirteen Colonies When: During the American Revolution. Who: seditious rebels Significance: Many following the organization of rebellion in every colony. |
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Daughters of Liberty
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What:Boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.
Where: Wives of the Men of Sons of Liberty. When:1765 and 1769 Who:Colonial American group that consisted of women. Significance: Helped end the Stamp-Act. |
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Crispus Attucks
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What:Killed in the Boston Massacre.
Where:During the Abolitionist movement arrived in Boston. When: Early 19th century. Who: African American or Native American decdent. Significance:first witness of the American Revolution.Heroic role in the history of the United States. also in important in Native American history. |
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John Adams
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What: Delegate to the Continental Congress. Part of the Federalist party.
When: 1776 Who:American politician, second President of the United States of America. Significance: Most influential Founding Fathers of the United Sates. Father of John Quincy Adams the 6th President of the United States. |
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Carolina Regulators
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What:group of people who rebelled against corrupt government officials.
Where:North Carolina When: 1768 Who: Wealthy colonists, Significance: The War of Regulations was a foreplay to the American Revolution. |
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Battle of Alamance
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What: Rebellion in issues of taxation and local control.
Where: Colonial North Carolina. Who: Governor of William Tryon, marching militia troops to relieve the violence. When: Spring of 1771 Significance:The Regulators lost and their rebellion failed. |
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FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1774
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Where: Philadelphia
When: 1774 Who:56 delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. What: an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest and petitioned the king for a redress of grievances. Significance: When the Articles were replaced by the United States Constitution, the Confederation Congress was superseded by the United States Congress. |
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Suffolk Resolves
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Galloway Plan
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What:Parliament of Great Britain. On matters relating to the colonies each body would have a veto over the others decisions.
When: Defeated in 1774 Who: Joseph Galloway, Pennsylvania delegate. Significance: while allowing the colonies to have some say over their own affairs, including the inflammatory issue of taxation. |
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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, APRIL 19, 1775
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What: First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Where: Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. When: April 19, 1775 Who:between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies Significance:Battles of the American Revolutionary War. |
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Paul Revere, William Dawes
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Who: An American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. Messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord.
What: Where: Boston When: 1776 Significance: Helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. |
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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence
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Somerset Case (in Great Britain)
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Quock Walker case- Mass
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Benedict Arnold
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Continental Army
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War
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Black Americans in the Revolutionary War
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