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100
People that invested in a company to make a profit from business ventures like colonies
What is a joint-stock company?
100
People choose representatives to govern them
What is a republic?
100
"Shot heard around the world"
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
100
England's chief lawmaking body
What is Parliament?
100
Founded the colony of Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams?
200
Fled England to avoid religious persecution because they wanted to separate from the Church of England
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
Called for a two-house legislature with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other house
What is the Great Compromise?
200
Midnight Ride
Who is Paul Revere?
200
An English philosopher that stated people have natural rights during the Enlightenment
Who is John Locke?
200
Established in 1619 by the Virginia colony as their elected representative assembly
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
A brutal war with the Native Americans in 1675-1676
What is King Philip's War?
300
A system of government in which power is shared among the federal government and the state
What is federalism?
300
Last battle of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
Guaranteed rights of Englishmen, like noblemen, in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
300
Written to encourage Americans to support independence from Great Britian
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
400
Sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the New World
What is an indentured servant?
400
People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
Who are Anti-Federalists?
400
Fought a case in Massachusetts that ended slavery in that state in 1781
Who is Elizabeth Freeman?
400
Accused of criticizing the government in public
Who is John Peter Zenger?
400
Three branches of government
What is judicial, legislative, and executive?
500
"He that will not work shall not eat"
Who is John Smith?
500
Set of amendments to the Constitution passed to protect individual rights
What are the Bill of Rights?
500
Long steel knives attached to the ends of guns
What are bayonets?
500
Forbade the colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
Several ways to stop the other branches of government
What are checks and balances?