Lost Colonies and Cash Crops
This vanished English settlement is known as the “Lost Colony.”
Roanoke
This war left Britain in debt and led it to tighten control and raise money from the colonies.
French and Indian War
This Congress created the Continental Army and chose George Washington to lead it.
Second Continental Congress
Under the Articles of Confederation, the government could not do this to raise reliable money.
Tax citizens directly
This group of advisers and department heads helped the president run the new executive branch.
Cabinet
This group founded Jamestown mainly to make money from the New World.
Virginia Company
This British policy limited colonial settlement west of the Appalachians, angering colonists who wanted land.
Proclamation Line
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, argued that independence and a republic made more sense than monarchy.
Common Sense
This law created a process for western territories to become new states.
Northwest Ordinance
Hamilton had a plan to build national credit by doing this.
Assumption of state debts
This Jamestown leader pushed a “work or starve” approach to help the colony survive.
John Smith
This slogan argued that Parliament should not tax colonists who had no elected voice in that lawmaking body.
“No taxation without representation”
This document stated and justified independence using ideas like natural rights and government by consent.
Declaration of Independence
This uprising by Massachusetts farmers increased support for a stronger national government.
Shays’ Rebellion
This protest against a federal tax showed the new government could enforce its laws.
Whiskey Rebellion
This agreement officially recognized U.S. independence and ended the Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Paris
In the Chesapeake, this cash crop pushed settlers to clear more land and increased demand for labor.
Tobacco
These harsh laws after Boston pushed colonies to work together in actions like the First Continental Congress.
Intolerable Acts
This early battle showed the Patriots could fight the British, even though the Patriots did not win.
Battle of Bunker Hill
This meeting was a small gathering, but it helped lead to the Constitutional Convention.
Annapolis Convention
These laws were criticized for limiting speech and targeting immigrants, leading to responses like the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
Alien and Sedition Acts
These two figures challenged Puritan leaders and became symbols of religious dissent and new ideas about religious freedom.
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
The colonist used this symbol/image that warned that they could strike back if threatened.
Rattlesnake
DAILY DOUBLE
This major victory convinced France the Americans could win, leading to an alliance.
Battle of Saratoga
DAILY DOUBLE
This compromise determined how a state's population would count towards voting ultimately giving more power to Southerns states and increasing tension over slavery.
Three-Fifths Compromise
This election revealed that a tie within the same party could force the House of Representatives to decide the president.
Election of 1800