10546036626 | Virginia Company | A group of private investors that established the first permanent English settlement in America. | 0 | |
10546036627 | joint-stock company | A business in which investors share the company's profits and losses | 1 | |
10546036628 | Jamestown | 1607 - first permanent English settlement | 2 | |
10546036629 | John Rolfe | Married Pocahontas, eased tensions with Powhatan. Tobacco! | 3 | |
10546036630 | Mercantilism | Economic policy practiced by Great Britain where more goods are exported than imported | 4 | |
10546036631 | Virginia House of Burgesses | First representative government in the colonies | 5 | |
10546036632 | Indentured Servants | Person who worked for a specific number of years in exchange for passage to America | 6 | |
10546036633 | Mayflower Compact | An agreement that set a precedent for government based on the will of the people | 7 | |
10546036634 | Middle Passage | The journey of slaves from Africa to the America | 8 | |
10546036635 | Bacon's Rebellion | a series of attacks against the Indians in Virginia during the 17th century; result of land and high taxes | 9 | |
10546036636 | King Philip's War | A conflict between settlers and the Wampanoag tribe | 10 | |
10546036637 | Half-Way Covenant | This gave partial membership into the Puritan Church | 11 | |
10546090717 | Salem Witch Trials | In Massachusetts; resulted in wide spread hysteria, trials and deaths | 12 | |
10546090718 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1st written constitution in America | 13 | |
10546090719 | John Locke | Political philosopher who said government is based on a social contract with the people | 14 | |
10546109179 | Common sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging colonists to join the fight for independence | 15 | |
10546109180 | Intolerable Acts | Harsh measures, including closing Boston Harbor, revoking the mass after the Boston Tea Party | 16 | |
10546109181 | Stamp Act | Placed a tax on printed documents | 17 | |
10724329992 | Treaty of Paris 1763 | Ended the French and Indian War | 18 | |
10724329993 | Proclamation of 1763 | Prohibited westward expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains | 19 | |
10724329994 | Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the American revolution because it persuaded the french to come to the old of the patriots | 20 | |
10724329995 | Yorktown | Battle that ended the American revolution with the surrender of British General Cornwallis | 21 | |
10724329996 | Treaty of Paris 1783 | Ended the American Revolution and gave Americans British Territory West to the Mississippi and from The Great Lakes to Florida | 22 | |
10724329997 | Articles of Confederation | 1st government of the U.S. states operated under this ; gave states most of the power. | 23 |
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