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28 Cards in this Set
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Puritan society |
Based on religious standing |
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New England economy |
Based on shipping fishing and lumber |
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Southern colonies |
Based on family status and ownership of land |
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Cash crops |
Traded with Europe |
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Slavery |
Best Agricultural Society in the South led to the American Civil War |
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Puritan Society |
Strong beliefs in the areas of hard work and Thrift |
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Tobacco |
Saved Jamestown |
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House of Burgesses |
First elected assembly in the new world |
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First Great Awakening |
Led to a renewed interest in religion |
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John Locke |
Social contract |
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British government |
Prohibited Federal stettlement west of the Appalachian |
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During the French and Indian War |
Native Americans fought on the side of the French and British |
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The Navigation Act |
Designed to restrict colonial trade |
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Ben Franklin |
Negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with France |
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George Washington |
Was an effective military commander because he preserved the Army through his leadership skills |
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The lack of British |
Contributed to the colonists victory in the American Revolution |
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John Locke |
Influence the belief in self government and natural rights |
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Thomas Paine |
Broken fence which influenced many Americans to support the idea of separation from England |
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System of checks and balances |
Established by the Constitution allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other two branches |
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Andrew Jackson |
Leeds America to victory at the Battle of New Orleans |
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Monroe Doctrine |
Warned the European nations not to interfere with the United States |
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Joint stock company |
A company whose stock is owned jointly by shareholders |
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Mayflower Compact |
Found them to live in a civil society according to their own laws |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
Acquisition French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War Seven Years war which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountain |
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Boston Massacre |
Boston colonists were British troops quartered in the city in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people |
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Stamp Act |
An act of British Parliament in 1765 that executed revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal commercial documents |
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Valley Forge |
Eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters of the American Army in one winter 1777 - 1778 of the Revolutionary War |
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Trenton |
A city in and the capital of New Jersey in the west part of Delaware River: Washington defeated Hessian troops in 1776 |
