Grammar
To approve or accept something.
What is ratify?
A British explorer who took leadership in Jamestown using the phrase "work or starve."
who was John Smith?
A compact that was signed November 11, 1620.
What is the Mayflower compact?
A battle in which the American patriots were defeated by the British army but proved they could hold their own against the superior British army.
What was the battle of Bunker Hill?
A less than 200 worded legal paper that protected religious beliefs.
What is the Mayflower compact?
supporters of the constitution that are called ____________ because they favor a strong federal/national government.
What are federalists?
A patriot who left Boston at night and galloped to nearby Lexington warning people while using the phrase "the redcoats are coming."
Who was Paul Revere?
Proclamation of 1763.
what was a law that forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains?
A trade across the Atlantic Ocean that occurred from 1450-1750, and was created to trade goods between continents, and was also named after an explorer who mistook the Americas for India and called the Native Americans "Indians."
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A paper considered the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law in June 1215.
what is the Magna Carta?
A person that faced persecution and didn't follow laws set by the church of England.
what is a pilgrim?
An English-American writer who wrote Common Sense.
who was Thomas paine?
A law created in 1542 by a priest called Bartolome De Las Casas, who made it illegal to enslave Native Americans.
What was the illegalement to enslave Native american people?
British Parliament that repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770 due to a group of people titled and known as the
"sons of liberty" dumping 342 tea crates over board and into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea party?
An important paper that was signed August 2, 1776.
what is the Declaration of Independence?
people who did not favor a strong federal/national government and thought that the government would have too much power and that it would leave too weak.
What are Anti-Federalists?
An Italian explorer who discovered the Americas thinking it was India.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
An important paper signed in Philadelphia on the hot summer of 1787 that was made to set the stage for the constitution and that is now considered as an introduction to the highest law of the land.
What is the Preamble?
A tragic massacre that occurred on March 5, 1770 due to a group of Bostonians throwing snowballs at British soldiers and causing them to fire out of fear.
What is the Boston Massacre?
An important paper that contained 27 important things that protected human rights in the US.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A paper that gives reasons for the US Constitution and states that citizen can establish the government.
what is the Preamble?
led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States.
who was George Washington?
A paper that states the principles on which the US government, and the civilians identity as Americans, are based.
what is the Declaration of Independence?
A holiday that is now celebrated across the US each year on July 4 to honor the day the US gained its freedom.
What is the Independence Day?
A paper signed August 2, 1776 that marked the freedom of the US on July 4, 1776, and is now known as a very important day to the Americans.
what is the Declaration of Independence?