History Benchmark
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- 3/5ths Compromise
- slave=3/5ths of a white for taxes and representation in government
- Act of Toleration
- Free Worship for Protestants and Catholics in the colonies
- Anti-Federalist
- *For Articles of Confederation *Against strong national government
- Articles of Confederation
- 1 Written American government *weak national government *weak military
- Battle of Saratoga
- Battle where we gained France as an ally
- Bill of Rights
- First Ten Ammendments to the Constitution (individual rights)
- Boston Massacre
- British soldiers kill who were protesting the Tea Act
- Carolina Colonies were founded for:________________________________________________________________
- Farming and Trade
- Charter
- Written document giving permission to settle an area
- Columbian Exchange
- spread of people, diseases and ideas around the world
- Constitution
- *Written by James Madison *Written form of government
- Constitutional Monarchy
- Government ruled by royal family butlimited by constitution and parliment
- Decleration of Independence
- Written document declaring American Independence
- Federalist
- *For Constitution *For Strong Nation government
- Free-Market Economy
- free trade
- Georgia was founded by:_________________________________________________________________
- Criminals and refugees
- House of Burgesses
- Representative body established in Jamestown colony
- Inalienable Rights
- God given rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- Jamestown
- 1st Colony
- Lexington and Concord
- First Battles of the American Revolution
- Loyalists
- Loyal to England
- Magna Carta
- *in 1200's English Written document encouraging limited power in government and life, liberty, and property
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Line dividing Maryland and Pennsylvania
- Mayflower Compact
- Written document stating the Pilgrims agreed to settle a colony and stay loyal to England
- Mercantalism
- money=power
- Mercantalism was important to the establishment of the colonies.... why?
- Provided natural recources for England
- Middle Colonies
- Pennsylvania, New York, Deleware, New Jersey
- Monarchy
- Government ruled by royal family
- Name the economic differences. New England Colonies:_____________ Middle Colonies:__________________ Southern Colonies:________________
- New England Colonies:industry_____ Middle Colonies:__cash crops______ Southern Colonies:__farming_____
- Navigation Acts
- Act passed by England that regulated American Colony Trade
- New England Colonies
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut
- New Jersey Plan
- Government with 1 legislative house
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- Created Northwest territory *North of Ohio River and West of Mississippi River
- Northwest passage
- A route to Asia through Americas
- Patrick Henry
- Famouse patriot with the Sons of Liberty and against the constitution
- Patriot
- Against English Rule
- Philadelphia Convention of 1787
- Meeting to write the Constitution
- Plantation
- Large Farm using slave labor
- poop
- poop
- Proclamation of 1763
- Made the Applachian Mountains the boundary for the colonies
- Quartering Act
- Forced colonists to house British soldiers
- Salutory Neglect
- Neglection of the American Colonists to make them self relient
- Shay's Rebellion
- Demonstarted a need for a stronger military and CENTRAL government
- Southern Colonies
- Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina
- Stamp Act
- Act on printed Goods so to make money to protect the colonies
- Sugar Act
- Lowered tax on molasses to reduce smuggling
- Tarrif
- Tax on imported and exported goods
- The Great Compromise satisfied both large and small states by making a ___ house_________
- a 2 house government one based on population the other not
- Thomas Paine
- Wrote Common Sense and encouraged American colonists to join in the fight against Britain
- Treaty of Paris 1783
- Meeting in France where England recognized America as an independent nation
- Virginia Plan
- Government with 2 legislative houses
- Yorktown
- Final battle of the American Revolution where America won.