Age of exploration
Conditions of the middle passage for enslaved people (Name 3)
No toilets, tightly packed (overcrowded), diseases, starvation, death, whipping
The act that lowered the tax on sugar and molasses
The Sugar Act
Events of the Battle of Long Island
GW and the continental army were badly defeated and forced out of NY.
The reason Washington was chosen to be first president.
The only one everyone trusted to not create another tyrannical/abusive government
What purchase doubled the size of America and gave America access to New Orleans and the Mississippi.
The Louisiana purchase
European countries that led navigation and expansion of trade routes in the 1400s and 1500s.
The rights of men stated by the Declaration of Indepdence. (give 4)
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and abolish government if become abusive.
The reason the Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the war.
The french officialy started to support America by sending troops, suplies, and a navy.
The way the issue of counting populations with slaves was resloved.
The three main objectives of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Finding the Northwest passage, informations on people, plants, animals, and geography, and to map land.
The three G's for explorers in the Age of Exploration
Gold, Glory, God
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
An organization of men who protested the Stamp Act. (Boston Tea Party)
The British's decision after the Battle of Yorktown.
The actions of the Barbary Pirates to America and where they lived.
The exchange of plants, animals, cultures, and diseases between the old world and the new world.
What were the Coersive/ Intolerable Acts? (name 2)
The terms the British agreed on in the Treaty of Paris
U.S. recognized as independent nation, withdraw troops and give rights to fish in the waters off of Canada
The politcal parties that formed after Washington retired, their leaders, and what they belived in.
Federalists- strong national government (Hamilton) Democratic-republicans(anti-federalist)- limited fed. gov. and strong state government (Jefferson)
The poet who wrote The Star Spangled Banner.
Francis Scott Key
Why was the Ohio River Valley wanted by Britain and France? What war did this lead to? Who won?
-Trade with Native Americans
-French and Indian War
-Britain won
Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca
-Thomas Jefferson
-James Maddison
The x,y,z affair, and what Adams told congress after.
A attempted negotiation between the French and Americans discussing the French seizure of ships that ended with the representators who demanded a bribe. Adams told congress to prepare for war.
The person who killed Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr