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  • What was the primary goal of European countries during the Age of Exploration?
    3 Gs
  • state controls wealth and attempts to transfer wealth from colonies to the parent country (making the mother country money!)
    Mercantilism
  • Which colonial region had more rocky soil
    New England Colonies
    Middle Colonies
    Southern Colonies
  • Who wrote Common Sense
    Ben Franklin
    John Locke
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas Jefferson
  • Which colonists took control of struggling Jamestown and helped it survive?
    John Smith
  • colonists required to house British soldiers, provide with supplies
    Quartering Act
  • Each branch of government has specific duties. This is called:
    Separation of Powers
  • First permanent colony
    Jamestown
  • -Forbade colonists from moving out West - tried to keep Native Americans and English settlers apart
    Proclamation Line of 1763
  • Federalists favored a...
    strong central government
    weak central government
  • Who was the President during the Civil War?
    A. Lincoln
  • Count the slave population when figuring out the number of representatives a state received
    Three-fifths compromise
  • From which colony are the Pilgrims from?
    Delaware
    Massachusetts
    Virginia
  • what people sold labor to the person who paid their passage to the colony
    Indentured Servants
    Colonists
    Slaves
    Native Americans
  • Bicameral means having how many houses in the legislature?
    two
  • What was one example of a piece of technology.machine created during the early industrial period in America
    Mechanical Reaper, cotton gin, Erie Canal
  • who was the Civil War fought between?
    Union and Confederacy
  • companies backed by investors who received pieces of ownership of the company called shares of stock
    Charter
    Indentured Servant
    House of Burgesses
    Joint Stock Company
  • Which event marked the end of the French and Indian War?
    Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Paris
    The Proclamation Line of 1763
  • taxes placed on imported products such as lead, paint, paper, glass and TEA
    Tea Act
    Townshend Acts
    Stamps act
    Sugar Act
  • Washington's winter encampment
    Trenton NJ
    Saratoga, NY
    Valley Forge
  • The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
    Columbia Exchange
  • (1764)- tax on sugar, molasses, imported goods
    Sugar Act
  • tax on legal/commercial docs
    Stamp Act
  • Name a Native group that is part of the Iroquois League
    Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca
  • What battle convinced the French to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War
    Battle of New York
    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Battle of Trenton
    Battle of Saratoga
  • Treaty that ended the American Revolution
    Treaty of Yorktown
    Treaty of London
    Treaty of Paris 1783
  • What two explorers explored the Louisiana Purchase Territory?
    Lewis and Clark
  • What country did the United States buy the Louisiana Purchase from?
    France
  • Every state sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention EXCEPT:
    Maryland
    Delaware
    Virginia
  • Search warrants used by British officers
    Writs of Assistance
  • First Battles of the Revolutionary War
    Battle of Trenton
    Battle of Saratoga
    Lexington and Concord
  • A secret organization that opposed British policies
    Sons of Liberty
  • Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
    John Adams
    Thomas Jefferson
    George Washington
  • A group of paid professional soldiers
    militia
  • What was the main reason colonists protested British taxes?
    No taxation without representation
  • Which colonial region grew cash crops and used the most slaves
    Middle Colonies
    Southern Colonies
    New England Colonies
  • Main cause of the French and Indian War
    Claiming the Ohio River Valley
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