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The French mainly traded this item in North America
Fur (beaver pelts)
Benjamin Franklin’s plan to create a centralized government for the Thirteen Colonies. It failed when only 7 colonies sent representatives. However, it did mark the first effort at achieving colonial unity.
What is the Albany Plan?
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
Articles of Confederation
Transfer of crops, animals, metals, ideas, populations, and diseases from the Old World to the New World
Columbian Exchange
The first permanent English settlement in the New World
Jamestown
The conflict of the French and Indian War began as a battle to control this territory
Ohio River Valley
The first shots of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
sugar
This was England's prevailing economic philosophy of the 1600s that held that colonies existed to serve the mother country.
Mercantilism
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists. It was REJECTED by the British king.
Olive Branch Petition
During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront, urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government, advocated for full citizenship
Who is Abigail Adams?
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
A failed rebellion in Jamestown that led to the decrease in indentured servitude and increase in African slavery
Bacon's Rebellion
An event that occurred on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists who were protesting the taxes imposed by the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender by Cornwallis forecast the end of British rule.
What is Yorktown?
The Great Compromise combined pieces of the NJ Plan and VA Plan, but also led to this compromise in counting southern populations.
3/5 Compromise
This group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York
Iroquois Confederacy
These religious leaders wished to reform the Church of England to be more in line with their Calvinist ideology, and rejected the Roman Catholic holdovers in the Anglican Church.
Puritans
This act replaced the Stamp Act by placing an INDIRECT tax on imported goods.
Townshend Acts
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Saratoga?
President Washington realized that permanent alliances would not work in the future for the United States and warned against them in his Farewell Address, he also warned about the dangers of these...
Political parties