History Terms to Identify
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- Name the Americas
- North,Central,and South America
- Appalachian Mountain
-
westward boundary of
the Procalamation
of 1763 - Backcountry
- region of hills and forests
- Bill of Rights
- 1st -10 amendments
- Chesapeake Region
-
Virginia and Maryland by
the Atlantic Ocean - Continental Army
- led by George Washington/Congress
- Free trade
- free to trade with any country
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
-
1st written constitution
in American form of representative self government;Thomas Hooker believed strongly in religious freedom - Guerrilla warfare
-
hit and run technique,
hiding behind bushes, colonists learned from Native Americans - House of Burgesses
-
representative government
in Virginia - Iroquois
-
powerful Native American tribe who were allies with the British in the French
and Indian War - Line of Demarcation
-
imaginary line down the Atlantic Ocean dividing
the Americas between
Spain and Portugal - Magna Carta
-
limited the power of the
King of England, limited
the government like in the Constitution; protects
people against cruel and unjust punishment and protects the
rights of people - Mayflower Compact
- formal document signed by pilgrims for a self-representative government
- Mercantilism
-
nation's power depended
on its wealth, sell more
than you buy - Minutemen
-
soldiers ready to fight in
a minute's notice - New World
- Americas
- New England
- Northern, Southern, and Middle Colonies --13 colonies
- Northwest Passage
- water route to Asia through North America
- Parliament
- British government
- Patriots
- supported American independence
- Pilgrim
-
left England on a
religious journey and
landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts - Puritan
- Protests wanted to reform the Anglican Church
- The Olive Branch Petition
- colonists sent a petition to King asking for peace and protect their rights
- The ride of Paul Revere
-
Patriot who rode to
Lexington to warn that
the British troops were
coming - The Battle of Lexington and Concord
- 1st battles that began the Revolutionary War, shot heard round the world
- Bunker Hill
-
British won but suffered
many losses so it was going to be a long difficult war - Trenton
-
Sneak attack led by
George Washington on Christmas night across
the Delaware River - Saratoga
-
France joins to help
the Americans in the war; turning point - Yorktown
- Last battle of the Revolutionaty War; Americans won and the British surrendered.
- The Enlightenment
- spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society
- The Declaration of Independence
-
July 4, 1776
American colonists
declared independence
from Britain and became
the United States of
America; it's own nation.