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granted rights to noblesand freemen
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"Lost colony" founded off the North Carolina coast; vanished
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first permanant english settlement in the New World
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first representative assembly
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first signed agreement for self government
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founded for religious freedom
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passed by British Parliment. regulated colonial commerce to suit english needs
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Bacon and his follwers rebelled against the Massachusets government when a war against the Native Americans and was declined.
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founded by William Penn for religious tollerance
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accused witches exicuted by special court
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religious revival began
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Benjamin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac
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the reason we have the 1st amendment to the constitution
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written by Benjamin franklin in order to organize the colonies
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the French and Indian war began
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forbade the colonists to settle west of the Appalchian Mountains
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passed by British parliment in order to pay the debts of the French and Indian war
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taxed certain goods and required housing for British soldiers
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basically the other repealed acts combined
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British troops fired on unarmed citizns killing 5 men
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colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor
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12 of 13 colonies met to discuss civil disobedience in response to the Intollerable Acts
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acts passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party
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said by Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention
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ride to warn the colonists that the british were coming
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written by Thomas Paine to promote independence
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written by Thomas Jefferson and approved on July 4th, 1776
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turning point of the revolution
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adopted as the first government; many weaknesses
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"i have not yet begun to fight."
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last major battle of the revolution
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ended the revolution
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set an orderkt pattern of growth for westward expansion
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1st president of the US
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the reason all the states ratified the Constitution
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rebellion by the US farmers on the tax of Whiskey.
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invented by Eli Whitney
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warned against political parties and entangling foreign alliences; set a precedent.
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established judicial review
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bought by Thomas Jefferson. doubled the size of the US
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explored the LA territory along with Sacagewea
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invented by Robert Fulton
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three main causes were British interference with American shipping, allying with the Native Americans, and impressment of the US sailors.
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written by Francis Scott Key
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distinguished the US as a world power. said the US was a protector of Latin America.
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forced the Cherokees to move west because of the Indian Removal Act.
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invented by Samuel F.B. Morse
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women's right conventionled by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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decided slaves were not citizens just beacause they were in a free state
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16th president of the US
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Jefferson Davis was president
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marked the beginning of the Civil War
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bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War
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issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing "all slaves in areas still in rebellion."
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given after the Union forces won a major victory at Gettysburg
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surrender 27,800 troops to general Grant at Appomattox Court House
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shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
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abolished slavery
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provided citizenship for all people born in the US
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made race no bar to voting rights; gave blacks the right to vote
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founded by Clara Barton
