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Puritans- Alexandra Gonet
The age of the Puritans all started in 1530 when King Henry VIII changed the Church of Rome into the Church of England. There were some forms of radical Puritans which were hated by their enemies. However, some Puritans still followed the ways of the national church. -
John Winthrop-Alexandra Gonet
John Winthrop was born January 22, 1588 and died April 5 1649. He was a very religious person. When he came to America in 1630, he wrote "a Model of Christian Charity". It is about the Massachusetts colonist being in covenant with God and wanting to build a "city on a hill" in New England. -
Salem Witch Trials - Alexandra Gonet
The idea of witchcraft began in Europe in the early 14th century. The Salem witch trials all started in 1692 when a group of girls claimed they were possessed and that several women were performing witchcraft. On January 1692, Elizabeth Parris, age 9, and Abigail Williams, age 11, the girls began having fits where they became very violent and uncontrollable screaming. A local doctor diagnosed the girls as being bewitched. -
Albany Plan of Union
Created by Benjamin Franklin. Seven Colonies met to discuss the unifying the colonies to help prevent war. They wanted to create a colonial government which appointed a British president, and had delegates represent each population. However this idea was rejected -
War Begins
Started at the Ohio River. The war was due to a fight over fur trade and a debate over who owned the territory. -
Treaty of Paris
British got the Ohio River Valley, Great Lakes, Florida, and Canada. Spain got Louisiana from France. After the war, the British started to conquer the Natives land. -
The Sugar Act
A tax on sugar, coffee, and molasses. It occurred to Increased smuggling activities, bribing tax officials, and began verbal protest. It almost caused the decline of the rum industry in the colonies. -
The Stamp Act
The first internal tax on American colonists by the British government. It was a tax imposed on paper documents in the colonies. The colonists argued that only their representative assemblies could tax them. They said the act was unconstitutional, and it resorted to mob violence to make the stamp collectors resign. It was repealed in 1766. -
The Boston Massacre
A group of colonist threatened British soldiers that were guarding the customs house. The soldiers accidentally shot into a mob and killed 5 soldiers. This infuriated many people and led to Paul Revere making a broadside that was false. -
Cotton Gin
Created by Eli Whitney. It helped to reduce the time and the cost that it took to separate the seeds for the white fibers of the cotton. -
XYZ affair
Created in 1797 during the time of Adams. The name came from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French men Hottinguer, Bellamy, and Hauteval. The document involved a confrontation between the United States and France which led to an undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. -
Louisianna Purchase
Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France for about $283 million and got 828,000 sq mi. Jefferson believed that buying the Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional but it would help the Unites States economy grow. -
Embargo Act of 1807
President Jefferson set this embargo into action. The Embargo made by America on all foreign trade. The purpose of the embargo was a response to the question of the United States Neutrality with Britain and France. The goal was to have both France and Britain respect Americans rights. -
Nationalism
Nationalism was a dominant political force after the war of 1812 that was the building of the nations pride and identity. John Quincy Adams was key part of nationalism, he persuaded Spain to sell Florida to America. -
Tariff of 1816
A tariff on imported goods, helped the American Industry. It increased the price of imported manufactured goods. -
Missouri Compromise
When Missouri was allowed to be a slave states but the rest of the states above Missouri in the Louisiana purchase were not and below were slave states. The Missouri Compromise was introduced by Senator Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois. Henry Clay wrote up the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise created the beginning of the conflict over which states were slave states and which ones were not. This led to the American Revolutionary War. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."
