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- First document of self-government in America written by the Pilgrims
- Mayflower Compact
- Cash crop the made Virginia successful
- tobacco
- Place where the Pilgrims landed in America.
- Plymouth Rock
- Ship on which the Pilgrims sailed to America.
- Mayflower
- People who wanted to change the Church of England
- Puritans
- First Successful English settlement in America.
- Jamestown
- Where the first shots of the Amreican Revolution took place.
- Lexington
- Dutch settlement, now called New York City
- New Amsterdam
- People who wanted to leave the Church of England
- Separtists
- Allowed migrattion of prehistoric people to North America from Asia
- land bridge
- A social system in which one level of society owes something
- feudalism
- Period of time when the Earth's temperature dropped and the level of the oceans dropped
- Ice Age
- King who started the Church of England
- Henry VIII (the eighth)
- The rule of a country by a king or queen
- Monarchy
- A series of religious wars for control of the Holy Land.
- Crusades
- Attempt to change the Catholic Church.
- Reformation
- This man wanted to reform the Catholic church
- Martin Luther
- This man "discovered" America for the third time
- Christopher Columbus
- One of Christopher Columbus' ships
- Nina
- Attempted naval invasion of England in 1588.
- Spanish Armada
- When Christopher Columbus "discovered" America
- October 12, 1492
- Commander-in-cheif of the Continental Army
- George Washington
- The idea that citizens must give their permission to be taxed.
- "No Taxation without representation."
- This man rode to warn of the British attack
- Paul Revere
- This battle was "The Turning Point" of the American Revolution
- Saratoga
- The last major battle of the American Revolution
- Yorktown
- The Continental Army spent the winter of 1777-78 here under extremely harsh conditions.
- Valley Forge
- The main author of the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson
- The battle for control of Boston Harbor
- Bunker Hill
- Colonists dressed as Indians to protest high taxes
- Boston Tea Party
- Five colonists were killed by Brtish redcoats.
- Boston Massacre
- When the American Revolution began
- April 19, 1775
- Document that stated the reasons for the colonists seperation from Great Britain
- Declaration of Independence
- Washington's sneak attack against the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas Day, 1776
- "Crossing the Delaware"
- Where the "Shot Heard Round the World" occurred
- Concord
- When the colonists declared their independence from Great Britain
- July 4, 1776
- Queen at the beginning on English colonization
- Ellizabeth I
- Viking explorer who "discovered" America
- Leif Ericson