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1. PLYMOUTH COLONY
WHO: separatists who later came to be known as the Pilgrims
WHAT: English colonial venture in North America
WHERE: Plymouth Colony
SIGNIFICANCE: served as the capital of the colony, is today the modern town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
2. MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
Who: colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims,
What: The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
Where: Plymouth colony, Atlantic aboard the Mayflower
Significance: bound for the mouth of the Hudson River, in land granted in a patent from the Crown to the London Virginia Company.
3. HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
Who: anyone willing to cross the Atlantic Ocean and help populate the colonies.
What: A head right is a legal grant of land to settlers.
Where: the thirteen British colonies in North America
Significance: The head right system was used in Jamestown, Virginia, starting in 1618 as an attempt to solve labor shortages due to the advent of the tobacco economy
4. FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
Who: John Fiske, a Connecticut historian, was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders
What: The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers.
Where: Connecticut
Significance: this Order gave men more voting rights and opened up more men to be able to run for office positions.
5. MERCANTILISM
Who: Belief in mercantilism began to fade in the late 18th century, as the arguments of Adam Smith and the other classical economists won out.
What: Mercantilism is an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital
Where: Mercantilism was the dominant school of thought throughout the early modern period
Significance: increased through a positive balance of trade with other nations
6. TRIANGULAR TRADE
Who: African slaves was fundamental to growing colonial cash crops,
What: a historical term indicating trade among three ports or region
Where: West Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, and New England
Significance: Triangular trade thus provided a mechanism for rectifying trade imbalances.
7. THE GREAT AWAKENING
Who: Preachers called the New Lights
What: several periods of rapid and dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history, generally recognized as beginning in the 1730s.
Where: Anglo-American religious history,
Significance: periodic revolutions in U.S. religious thought.
8. IRON ACT 1750
Who: North America and Great Britain
What: one of the legislative measures introduced by the British Parliament, seeking to restrict manufacturing activities in British colonies,
Where: In American Colonial history
Significance: Several provisions
9. INDENTURED SERVANTS
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10. GEORGE WASHINGTON
Who: George Washington
What: the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States of America
Where: the American revolutionary forces in 1775.
Significance: formation of the United States,
11. PROCLAMATION OF 1763
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12. SALUTARY NEGLECT
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13. STAMP ACT 1765
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15. SONS OF LIBERTY
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17. BOSTON MASSACRE
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18. INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774
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19. SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775
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21. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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24. IMPLIED POWERS(ELASTIC CLAUSE)
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25. GREAT COMPROMISE
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26. JAMES TOWN
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27. JOHN SMITH
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28. BACON'S REBELLION
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30. ROGER WILLIAMS
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31. ANNE HUTCHINSEN
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32. PEQUOT WAR
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33. STAMP ACT
Who: British Parliament on the colonies of British America.
What: was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.
When:Stamp Act of 1765
Where:British Parliament on the colonies of British America.
Significance: the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America following the British victory in the Seven Years' War.
34. DECLARATORY ACT
Who:Parliament
What:an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
When:1766, during America's colonial period
Where:colonies
Significance: to regulate the behavior of the colonies
35. QUARTERING ACT
Who:Lieutenant General Thomas Gage,
What:the name of at least two acts of the Parliament of Great Britain
When:1765
Where:colonies
Significance: used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British troops had adequate housing and provisions
36. TOWNSHEND ACT http://www.flashcardexchange.com/mycards/add/850760
Who:Parliament of Great Britain
What:a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
When:in 1767
Where:Parliament of Great Britain
Significance: to raise revenue in the colonies to pay for governors and judges who would be independent of colonial control,
37. BOSTON MASSACRE
Who:British troops
What:an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops
When:on March 5, 1770
Where:British colonies in America
Significance: ed to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd
38. TEA ACT
Who:ithe East India Company
What:an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
When:May 10, 1773.
Where:in London
Significance: paid a duty which averaged two shillings and six pence per pound.
39. BOSTON TEA PARTY
Who:colonists in Boston
What:a direct action protest by colonists in Boston,
When:December 16, 1773
Where:a town in the British colony of Massachusetts,
Significance: The incident remains an iconic event of American history,
40. COERCIVE ACTS
Who:British Parliament
What:names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament
When:in 1774
Where:Britain's colonies in North America.
Significance: sparked outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution.
41. MUTINY ACT
Who:Parliament
What:an act passed yearly by Parliament for governing the British Arm
When:passed in 1689
Where:British Army
Significance: in response to the mutiny of a large portion of the army which stayed loyal to the Stuarts upon William III taking the crown of England.
42. SAMUEL ADAMS
Who:a statesman, political philosopher,
What:a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
When:September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803
Where:colonial Massachusetts,
Significance: leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States
King William’s War:
Who:The first of the French and Indian Wars,
What: was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance
Where:was fought between England, France, and their respective American Indian allies in the colonies of Canada (New France), Acadia, and New England.
Significance: The Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 ended the war between the two colonial powers, reverting the colonial borders to the status quo ante bellum.
Queen Anne’s War:
Who:France and England (later Great Britain)
What: the second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought between France and England
Where:North America for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
Significance: In addition to the two main combatants, the war also involved a number of American Indian tribes and Spain, which was allied with France.
Peace of Utrecht:
Who:Louis XIV of France and Philip V of Spain on the one hand, and representatives of Queen Anne of Great Britain, the Duke of Savoy, and the United Provinces on the other.
What: Concluded between various European states, it helped end the War of the Spanish Succession.
Where:between various European states
Significance: established the Peace of Utrecht
War of Jenkin’s Ear:
Who:unusual name relates to Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship
What: a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.
Where:by Spanish coast guards in 1731
Significance: This affair and a number of similar incidents sparked a war against the Spanish Empire, ostensibly to encourage the Spanish not to renege on the lucrative asiento contract
Paxton Boys:
Who:Presbyterian Scots-Irish frontiersmen from central Pennsylvania, near Paxton Church
What: a vigilante group that murdered at least twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre
Where:near Millersville, PA,
Significance: formed a vigilante group in response to the American Indian uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion
Grenville’s Program:
Who: the king's chief minister after 1763, devised a comprehensive plan to settle problems.
What: plan to settle problems
Where: in North America
Significance: established permanent garrisons of English troops for maintenance of order on the frontiers
Patrick Henry:
Who:prominent figure in the American Revolution, Henry is known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
What: served as the first post-colonial Governor
Where:Virginia from 1776 to 1779.
Significance: is remembered as one of the most influential (and radical) advocates of the American Revolution and republicanism
SONS OF LIBERTY:
Who:considered the Sons of Liberty as seditious rebels,
What: a secret organization of American patriots
Where:originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution.
Significance:attacked the apparatus and symbols of British authority and power such as property of the gentry, customs officers, East India Company tea, and as the war approached, vocal supporters of the Crown.
Daughters of Liberty:
Who:patriot women
What: a successful Colonial American group that consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts
Where:in the countryside
Significance: Using their feminine skills of the time period, they made homespun cloth and other goods to fill the good British people.
Crispus Attucks:
Who:frequently named as the first martyr of the American Revolution
What: one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre
Where:in Boston, Massachusetts
Significance: regarded as an important and inspirational figure in American history.
John Adams:
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What: an American politician and the second President of the United States
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Significance: one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Battle of the Alamance:
Who: the rebellion
What: Ended the war of the so called War of the Regulation
Were:in North carolina
Significance:an over issues of taxation and local control
FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1774:
Who: 12 British North American colonies
What: The Congress met
Were:in September 5,1774 at Carpenters' Hall
Significance:The Congress met briefly to consider options, an economic boycott of British trade, publish a list of rights and grievances, and petition King George for redress of those grievances.
Suffolk Resolves:
Who: By leader of Suffolk county
What: was a declaration
Were: September 9,1774 in Assachusetts
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Galloway Plan:
Who:Joseph Galloway
What:a Pennsylvania delegate
Were:British Empire
Significance:suggested the creation of an American Colonial Parliament
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, APRIL 19, 1775:
Who:British army regulars under LT Colonel Francis smith
What:the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war
Were: Middlesex country, Massachusetts
Significance: Colonial victory; start of the American revolutionary war
Paul Revere, William Dawes:
Who: Paul Revere
What: was glorified after his death for his role as messenger
Were: in the battle of Lexington and Concord
Significance: prosperous and prominent Boston craftsmen
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS:
Who:thirteen colonies
What:a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies
Were:Pennsylvania state house, Philadelphia,
Significance:managed to the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence
Slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence:
Who:American delegates
What:removed from declaration because writers wanted all the southern to support it
Were:south and north states
Significance:America might not be the country it is now because north would not have signed it