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What was the first permanent English settlement in North America

What year was Jamestown founded?

What economic system did England use to control the 13 colonies

Name the 3 reasons Europeans came to America

This group of people settled in Massachusetts. Who were they?

Puritans and/or Pilgrims came to American seeking what kind of freedom?

This document was written by the Pilgrims and it stated that all colonists would follow the rules, what was the document

What year was the Mayflower Compact written

What are the three regions of the 13 colonies

This region had hard rocky soil, long winters and relied on manufacturing

This region was called the Breadbacket of the 13 colonies

This region had long growing seasons and good ground for farming on large farms called plantations

A crop grown to make money is called a?

This colony was founded for debtors, what colony is it?

This colony was founded by William Penn as a haven (place) for Quakers

Who is credited with saving Jamestown from disaster

Who founded Rhode Island?

Who founded Connecticutt

This colony was founded by Lord Baltimore as a place for Catholics

What form of government is used when people elect someone to speak for them

What is the importance of the Mayflower Compact

What was the first representative assembly in the 13 colonies

What was the first written Constitution in the 13 colonies

What was the first war fought by the colonists and England versus the French?

Waht was the main effect of the French and Indian war

How did the King of England and British Parliament propose to make colonists pay?

Tax on sugar

what is the term used to describe when colonists refuse to buy certain items

How did colonist protest the sugar tax

this direct tax forced colonists to buy a stamp on all paper goods

What was the colonial response to the stamp tax

This event occured when colonists met in Boston to protest unfair taxation with the stamp tax

how many people died in the Boston Massacre

What did the colonists use to increase anger against the British after the Massacre

What document was written by Thomas Jefferson and sent to the king with a list of grievances towards the colonies

What year was the Declaration written

After the Boston Massacre the British removed all taxes except the tax on?

What was the colonial response to the Tea Tax

After the Tea Party the king of England passed the worst taxes on only Boston to make them pay for the tea, what tax was next

Every time the King passed new taxes, what happened to the level of protests by the colonists

Where did the event know as the "Shot heard round the World" occur?

These battles showed George Washington's use of espionage, great courage, and great military tactics

What was the winter camp of George Washington?

What was important about Valley Forge

what man wrote it only makes sense to want independence?

What book did Thomas Paine write

What was the turning point of the Revolutionary War

Why is Saratoga the turning point?

The last battle of the Revolutionary War

What was the effect of the Revolutionary War?

What was the first national constitution

The Articles gave more power to who? national or states

What law created a system to create new states from all new territories in the Northwest Territories

This rebellion by farmers showed the Articles to be too weak?

What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention

What year was the Constitutional Convention

What plan favored the large states and was based on a states population

what plan gave all states equal representation and favored the small states

This compromised solved the issue of state's representation at the Convention

The Great Compromse created how many branches of government

What are the three branches

what does the legislative branch do?

What does the executive branch do and who runs it

who is responsible for ruling if laws are constitutional

What houses did the Great Compromise create in the Legislative Branch

What is the House of Representatives based on?

What is the Senate membership based on?

What compromise settled the issue of Slavery at the convention

What did Anti-federalists demand be added to the Constitution before they would ratify (approve) it

What group favored a strong national government

What group feared that a strong president would turn into a King

2/3 vote in Congress + 3/4 vote in state legislatures =

How does the Constitution meet the changing needs of society?

the first 10 amendments are called the?

What individual freedoms are protected in the first amendment

What is it called when people are free to meet in groups to protest the government?

What is freedom of speech?

2nd amendment

Why did our founding fathers include the 3rd amendment

Which amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizures?

Due process is the rights of the accused and is protected by which amendment

All criminals are allowed what type of trial in the 6th amendment

8th amendment protects us against

The president can veto laws by the legislature, what is this an example of

name at least 3 ways the 3 branches check each others powers

why is their separation of powers?

we elect representatives to work on government's laws, what is this?

The 3 branches can only do what is written in the constitution, they are restricted, what is this type of government

"We the People" have the power, what is this?

How do the people control the government

The national and state governments each have their own unique and sometimes share powers. What is this called

Name one thing the national governal can only do

name one thing that only the states can do

name one thing that the national and state governments can do