Colonial Beginnings
The first permanent colony in North America
Jamestown
Central to Puritan theology, this was the belief that God had already chosen who would be saved
Predestination
The war that ended in 1763 that left Britain in deep debt
French and Indian War
The pamphlet that argued independence was extremely obvious
Common Sense
The rebellion that highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Shay's Rebellion
Labor systemwhereby passengers exchanged labor for passage
indentured servitude
This religios revival movement emphasized emotional conversion experiences in the 1730s-1740s
First Great Awakening
The British act that placed the first direct tax on printed materials in the colonies
Stamp Act
The 1777 battle that convinced France to ally with the colonies
Saratoga
The compromise that created a bicameral legislature
The Great (Connecticut) Compromise
elected legislative assembly first created in Virginia in 1619
House of Burgesses
The Massachusetts dissenter who founded Rhode Island based on religious toleration
Roger Williams
The protest group known for using intimidation to oppose British taxes
Sons of Liberty
The weak first national government created during the war
Articles of Confederation
The Supreme Court case that established judicial review
Marbury v Madison
English economic idea that colonies existed to benefit the Mother Country
Mercantilism
The sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was delivered by this preacher
Jonathan Edwards
This 1773 protest targeted British tea policies
Boston Tea Party
The treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris
Jefferson's land deal that doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
The rebellion that exposed tensions between wealthy planters and frontier farmers in Virginia
Bacon's Rebellion
The colonial war that devasted native populations in New England in the 1670s
King Philips War
The meeting that coordinated colonial resistance before independence
First Continental Congress
Benedict Arnold
The foreighn policy warning European countries to stay out of the western hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine