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These are the basic rights that we are granted at birth.
What are 'unalienable rights'?
Acquiring riches was a main motivation factor for this.
What is European Exploration?
This was the year that the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact.
What is 1620?
Events such as the Boston Tea Party, the First Continental Congress, and the "Shot Heard Round the World," happened during this era of U.S. History.
What is the Revolutionary Era?
This established a self-governing colony for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Thick Forests, Long Growing Season, and Abundant Sea Life helped contribute to the shipbuilding industry in this region of the English Colonies.
What are the New England Colonies?
This country came to the New World to establish catholic missions.
What is Spain?
This religious group settled in Massachusetts.
Who are the Puritans?
The First Continental Congress was organized in response to this.
What is the Stamp Act?
This country came to the New World to establish a fur trading network.
What is France?
These are the 4 main reasons for European colonization.
What is economic, political, social, and religious reasons?
He influenced European Exploration with his writings about his travels to China.
Who is Marco Polo?
This colony was home to European Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This prevented colonists from settling westward and contributed to the American Revolution.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This was a significant achievement of the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
What is the writing of the Declaration of Independence?
This religious group settled in the New England colonies to escape religious persecution.
Who is the Puritans?
This company helped establish New Netherland.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
This was the first representative legislature in the England Colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The colonists organized this in response to the enforcement of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first Colonist killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
He traveled to the "New World" in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Thomas Hooker wrote this document.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This was the main cause of the American Revolution.
What is unfair taxation?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to support the Patriot views.
What is "Common Sense?"