People
An influential English philosopher who earned the title of "Father of Liberalism" and wrote the Two Treatises on Government.
John Locke
Atlantic Slave Trade
The greatest forced movement of Africans to the New World by Portugal, Spain, England and integral to the development of the modern world.
maize
Corn!
Battle of Yorktown
The Revolutionary War's last major battle which led to the Treaty of Paris 1783
Mary Dyer
A quaker martyr in Massachusetts
The way in which the Northern states slowly cushioned the effects of abolition
gradual emancipation
Fish found in Newfoundland's Grand Banks which were vital to the areas economy and a source of wealth within new world
Atlantic Cod
The first major battle of the Revolutionary War
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Free Black(s)
Non- enslaved African American Men that voted in most states if they owned property but were slowly disenfranchised in the early 1800s
Epidemics that infectiously spread through unexposed populations like what happened to the Amerindians after the columbian exchange.
virgin-soil epidemic
passanger pigeons
The most numerous birds in the world that would travel in giant flocks but sadly were hunted mercilessly by Americans to extinction
Battle of Saratoga
The US soldiers got the Brits to surrender and was the Revolutionary War's turning point since it inspired the French to enter the war and help the Americans
Group that opposed stronger federal government that the constitution proposed and wanted a Bill of Rights.
Anti-federalists
Great Compromise
Known as the Connecticut compromise, this brought together the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan and was the basis for the Constitution.
endling
Last known survivor of a species
An effort made by Metacom against the colonizers to restore sovereignty and tradition to their land
King Philips War
Metacomet
Also known as King Philip, Metacomet was the Sachem of the Wampanoag and their leader during King Philip's War.
Demographic Catastrophe
The 80-90% mortality of Amerindians within a century of contact with Europeans
The last passenger Pigeon
Martha
Great War for Empire
The first "world war" largely fought in Europe and involved all the great powers but was mainly Britain against France. It ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763