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The three motives for European exploration
What is God, Gold, and Glory
The journey of Africans to be sold into slavery
What is the Middle Passage?
This was the first English settlement in America, which was begun in 1607
What is Jamestown?
The opening confrontation of the American Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This was the first constitution of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Helped sailors know which direction to go
What is a compass?
Plantations and slavery existed in this colonial region.
What is the Southern Region?
The Dutch established this colony in the Middle Colonies
Where is New York?
The final battle of the Revolutionary War where the French arrived to provide military aid.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
He is considered the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
Italian navigator who reached the Americas in 1492 while seeking a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Society Based on Land Ownership and Family Status
Where are the Southern Colonies?
Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Virginia Governor. This rebellion included these two groups of people.
Who are indentured servants and enslaved people?
John Locke's political theory was based on the idea that individuals possess natural rights, which include these
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
The war that led to British war debt and the British decision to tax the colonists
What is the French and Indian War?
A political movement aimed at unifying Europe under a single monarch.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Society Based on Religious Standing
Where are New England Colonies?
The amendment to the US Constitution was directly influenced by the VA Statute for Religious Freedom?
What is the 1st Amendment?
Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy in Paris helped convince the French to join the war on the side of the Americans through this
What is the Treaty of Alliance?
The Founding Fathers created a government system protect against one branch becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
Economic theory that colonies existed to benefit the mother country through controlled trade and the accumulation of wealth.
What is Mercantilism?
Most diverse colonies with people from Germany, England, and the Dutch
Where are the Middle Colonies?
This pamphlet influenced many Americans to support independence from Great Britain.
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
This philosophical movement influenced the political ideologies of the Revolution
What is the Enlightenment?
The meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where the founders wrote the Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?