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English law limited the power of the king and gave more power rich white men
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first English colony in America-Settled for Tabacco
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What Was The Reason For Settling?
-to grow crops and make money
What Was The Geography?
-fertile soil, harsh winters -
What Was The Reason For Settling?
-they moved to america to have freedom of religion
What Was The Geography And Religion?
-rocky soil, forest and long harsh winters,
What Was The Main Religion?
-one of the main religions is puritans and Pilgrim -
-Reason For Settlement?
religion freedom
-Geography and Region?
flat land,short winters and fertile soil
-Main Religion?
Quakers -famous oats -
first form of representative government in america
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the promise for the pilgrams to stay together
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one of the first forms representative governments
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-What Was This System?
an economic system between great Britain
-Why Would This Upset Colonists?
Americans felt it violated their freedom to trade -
the french and native American vs great Britain
made great Britain in debt
cause them to increase tax in the colonies -
-What Did This Do ?
a line set after the french and american vs Indian war
-Why Would This Anger Colonists?
they made them move -
first meeting with multiple colonists
their problems with the king of england -
-What Was It ?
first tax placed on the american colonists
-Why Did Great Britain Need To Implement This?
because Britain had to pay back their debt from the french and Indian war -
the american protest over taxation
Crispus Attucks
5 colonists dead -
protest the tea act
the taxation on tea
the colonists that were fighting no to have tax on tea
Samuel Adams -
set to punish the colonists for their protest
allow British solder to go into homes -
to discuss their problems with great Britain
they did not want independence just ways to come back -
first battle of the revolution "shot heard around the world"
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the spread the word for independence for the colonists
Tomas Paine -
George Washington, Ben Franklin, john Adams, and Tomas Jefferson
the declaration of independence -
ending the British France helped a lot
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George Washington
due to freezing conditions and lack of supplies (food and proper clothing) -
Frenchman (marquis DE Lafayette)
France
ended up the British surrendering -
ended the revolutionary war and the American colonies freed
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Alexander Hamilton,James Madison,John Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Tomas Jefferson
Tomas Jefferson -
to have 1 house legislature and each state to have a equal representation
the have a bicameral legislature= 2 house of legislature government and represent the sate by its population
the great compromise included a lot of things that had to do with the government(legislature) slaves -
it was compromise that for every 5 slave only 3 will count so that meant that every slave counts as 3/4 of a person
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Alexander Hamilton,James Madison, all were Federalist (that supported more government)
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Tomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry
they were against government and the rulings and controlled
because they felt that government was too controlling and they just wanted to be freed -
set up the presidence cabinet or advisers
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a protest to the first tax that was placed after the constitution was written
president George Washington and his army shut it down -
a treaty signed with Spain to allow the u.s to trade in new Orleans
to trade through the Mississippi river -
staying NEUTRAL in foreign affairs
and no political parties -
first president to claim a POLITICAL PARTY
he was a leader of the Federalist party (strong central government)
he passed the aliens and sedition act -allowed the central or federal government to arrest anybody from foreign countries -
leader of the Democratic -republican party (state right)
wrote the deceleration of independence 1776
the first pirates he fought were the Barbary pirates first time our navy was used -
Tomas Jefferson bought it the year of 1803
double size of the UNITED STATES
BOUGHT FROM FRANCE -
first supreme court the SET UP JUDICIAL REVIEW