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English law that limited the power of the king and gave more power to rich men
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First english colony in America- settled and grew tobacco
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Wanted to expand trading and have better economic opportunities
Fertile soil & Harsh winters
Anglican & Roman Catholic -
first form of representative government in america
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first written contract, promise the pilgrims made to stick togethe
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Religious freedom
Rocky soil, Forest areas, and Long harsh winters
Puritans & Pilgrims -
one of the first forms of representative governments
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Economic Oppurtinities and Religious & Political Freedom
Fertile soil, Flat lands, Plains and Shorter winters
Quakers -
A war between French and Native Americans, which put Great Britain in debt causing them to increase taxes on American Colonists
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A line set on after the French & Indian War that put British colonies to the East and French and Native Americans to the West of the Appalachian Mountains and the colonists were angry because they couldn't pass the line
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Tax placed on the American colonies to payback debt from the French & Indian War
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1st meeting with many colonies to discuss their issues with the King of England, drafted a protest, organized a boycott and claimed "taxation w/o representation"
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Americans were protesting the taxes
Crispus Attucks "first death of the revolution" -
Taxes were put on tea, and then dumped tea into the Boston harbour.
The sons of liberty were formed to protect the rights of colonist and to fight taxation, and were led by Samuel Adams -
Set to punish the colonies for their protests
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12 colonies got together to discuss their problems which was that they didn't want independence but wanted to be back together with Great Britain
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First battle of the revolution called "shot heard around the world"
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which basically helped spread the word why the colonies should be indepedent
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Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Americans Won, Spain and France backed the rebelling colonies
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George Washington was the leader
Many people died because of the conditions and lack of materials -
Frenchmen helped Marquis de Lafayette but surrendered ending the Revolutionary War
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Ended the Revolutionary War, gave America colonies independence & new boundaries
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Thomas Jefferson was the main author, but it also included James Madison, Thomas Paine and John Adams
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Small states plan wanted one vote per state
Big states wanted to have more representatives than smaller sates
and then they ended with both (2 senates and proportional representation) -
5 slaves only counted as 3 slaves
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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and James Jay wrote this to explain the constitution which had recently been released
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Patrick Henry,Samuel Adams, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee,Robert Yates, James Monroe and Amos Singletary wrote this because they didn't like the constitution because " it gave too much power to the government"
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Set up the president's cabinet (advisors)
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A protest to the first tax that was placed after the constitution was written, George Washington shut it down with his military
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Eli Whitney invented this and made slaves jobs easier because it separated the seeds of the cotton
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A treaty signed with Spain to allow the US to trade in New Orleans
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He wanted them to stay neutral in foreign affair and to avoid political parties
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First president to claim a political party and was leader of the federalists party and passed the aliens & sedition act (allowed the central government to imprison you if you were foreign
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He was a Democratic-Republican, believed states right, fought the Barbary Pirates, first war the US was involved in and was the first time our Navy was used.
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Thomas Jefferson bought it, and doubled the size of the US
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Set up Judicial Review
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The War of 1812
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United States vs. Great Britain, The Star Spangled Banner was written during the war, the great lakes were an important region and the strong leader was Andrew Jackson
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Monroe Doctrine was an agreement sent to Europe so they would know they cannot colonize the Americas
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It was a system between Great Britain and it's colonies, America had the raw materials and then sold the finished product to the colonies
Americans felt violated because they couldn't really trade with other countries