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PLYMOUTH COLONY
English Colonial Venture in North America
MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
First governing document of Plymouth Colony
HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
Granted land to settlers
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
Described the government set up by the Connecticut River towns
MERCANTILISM
Dominate school of thought throughout the early modern period
TRIANGULAR TRADE
Carried Slaves, crops, and goods to other parts of the world
THE GREAT AWAKENING
Religious Revival
IRON ACT 1750
One of several reasons that caused the colonies to rebel
INDENTURED SERVANTS
Used for work
GEORGE WASHINGTON
1st commander in chief of the continental army
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
Organized Britain’s North American empire
SALUTARY NEGLECT
British policy of avoiding the regulation parliamentary laws
STAMP ACT 1765
very successful method of taxation within Great Britain
STAMP ACT CONGRESS
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City
SONS OF LIBERTY
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American patriots, which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution
COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
The committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution
BOSTON MASSACRE
The legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British colonies in America
INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774
Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after shooting in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
Was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. The Ordinance unanimously passed on July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. On August 7, 1789, the U.S. Congress affirmed the Ordinance with slight modifications under the Constitution.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is celebrated on July 4; Congress approved the day the wording of the Declaration.
COMMON SENSE
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and the pamphlet became an immediate success. In relation to the population of the Colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book in American history. Common Sense presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, “the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
SHAYS REBELLION
Rebellion that caused the Articles of Confederation to be destroyed.
IMPLIED POWERS (ELASTIC CLAUSE)
"Implied powers" are powers not given to the government directly through the constitution, but are implied.
GREAT COMPROMISE
The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise, was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives.