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 1. Forest with rich soil  2. person who works 5 – 7 years in exchange for trip to colonies  3. place owned by a distant country  4. group of colonies.

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2  1. Forest with rich soil  2. person who works 5 – 7 years in exchange for trip to colonies  3. place owned by a distant country  4. group of colonies owned by distant country  5. person taken from home and forced to work

3  6. small military camp  7. government with king in control  8. government where people elect the leaders  9.government with dictator in control  10. no job, no money

4  11. indirect process for electing the Pres.  12. approve by voting  13. changes to Constitution  14. economic belief – sell more than you buy  15.volunteer army  16. people have the power in government

5  17.NA SA Europe Asia Africa Antarctica Australia / Pacific Ocean, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic  18.use the map in the book on page 101  19. use the map in the book on page 101  20. 1607 - Jamestown, VA founded  1620 – Plymouth, Mass founded  21. Declaration of Independence signed

6  22.Constitution written  23. first representative assembly in colonies  24. plan for self-government in Plymouth  25. first written constitution in the colonies  26.pamphlet written by Thomas Paine - to stay and fight

7  27.document guaranteeing many freedoms  28. document limiting power of king  29. colonists supporting war & colonies  30. colonist supporting England  31. pamphlet – Thomas Paine – convince people to come and fight

8  32. letter sent by the 2 nd Continental Congress asking the King to repeal Intolerable Acts to ensure peace  33. agreement to have 3 of every 5 slaves be counted towards population to get more representatives (votes) for states  34. New England – trade/shipping Middle – farming Southern – farming  35. Georgia – help those in debt Jamestown, VA – make $ Plymouth, Massachusetts – religious freedom

9  36. don’t tax colonies unless we can be represented in Parliament  37. placed a tax on lead, paper, glass, paint, tea = because of this colonist boycott British goods  38. colonists dump tea into Boston’s Harbor – so the King closes port in Boston  39 uprising in Boston – Crispus Attucks dies  40. document telling the King the colonies are now free – stated that people have unalienable rights that he cannot take away

10  41. paper ending the American Revolution (1783)  42. list of our basic laws setting up our government (1787)  43. first try at national government – very loose alliance – no national strength – all the power was with the states; problems: did not have to pay taxes, did not have to fight with the army; no national courts  44. divided towns into sections of 36; one was set aside for schools

11  45. set up a government in the Northwest; outlawed slavery in NW; when an area had 60,000 people they could become a state  46.combined the VA and NJ plans to make states happy about balancing the votes  47. large farms creating need for slaves as workers because there was a labor shortage  48. president of Continental Congress

12  49. author of Declaration of Independence  50. minuteman that warned others of regulars coming  51.first person killed in Revolution at the Boston Massacre  52.philosopher who believed all are equal and the government’s power should be limited  53.author of Constitution  54.wrote American Crisis and Common Sense

13  55. first two political parties  56. original name of New York  57. first permanent settlement in NA ; in Virginia  58. area where Pilgrims and Puritans settled; in Massachusetts  59. area where Washington and his men spent a horrible winter

14  60. area where Washington surprised the Hessians at Christmas  61. turning point of the Revolution because France and Spain decided to help us  62. last major battle of the Revolution  63. uprising by Massachusetts farmer; showed the Articles of Confederation did not work

15  64. first battle of the Revolution  65. battle that the British won by advancing three times on Americans


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