People to Know
First President of the US
George Washington
How Native American communities traced their family and kinship networks
Matrilineality
Revolutionary War
Location of a mass hysteria about witchcraft
Salem, Massachusetts
One of the causes of the American Revolution- this is when the British had lots of laws that they didn't enforce until the French and Indian War
Salutary Neglect
Published in 1776, this listed the grievances that the colonists had endured under King George III
Declaration of Independence
Author of the Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin
The Native American chief who led a series of battles over territory in New England in 1775
King Phillip/ Metacom
First battle of the American War for Independence
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The name and year of the first British colony in the New World
What the army of the colonists was called
Continental Army
This set of governming documents failed for several reasons, but one of the primary reasons was that it did not grant the federal government taxation powers, so it couldn't carry out its tasks
Articles of Confederation
The Great Compromiser
Henry Clay
This group of Native Americans rebelled against Spanish colonization in 1690
Pueblo/ Popes Rebellion
War from 1846-1848
Mexican-American War
This group of colonies was founded by Puritans who wanted to start their own Utopian Communities
New England
The economic system in which mother countries extract resources from colonies and require colonies to purchase finished goods from the mother country
Mercantilism
Ratified in 1789, this created a federal government that had 3 branches of government and included checks and balances to limit the power of government officials
U.S. Constitution
Nat Turner
The large city created by the mound builders near modern day Missouri- it was the same size as many European cities at the time
Cahokia
War that ended with the Treaty of Ghent, and resulted in America eventually controlling the Oregon territory
War of 1812
These colonies were founded by joint stock companies, with a focus on resource extraction through gold or plantations
Southern colonies
The pamphlet that helped to spark popular support for the American Revolution
Common Sense; written by Thomas Paine
1803- nearly doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
Helped Lewis and Clark navigate the Louisiana Territory
Sacagawea
A Shawnee leader who united Native American groups ang joined with the British in 1812
Tecumseh
A series of battles between the US and a Native American nation in Florida; Andrew Jackson led the military for a time during this war
Seminole Wars
This colony was founded by someone hoping to create a place where Catholics could live with other Christian denominations
Maryland, Lord Baltimore
Townshend Act, Sugar Tax, Proclamation of 1763, Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act, Dissolving colonial government, Boston Massacre
This proclamations declared that enslaved people in Confederate held territory during the Civil War were free
Emancipation Proclamation