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Powhatan's daughter who married the English colonist who developed a profitable strain of tobacco
Pocahontas
Unpopular British tax on paper goods
Stamp Act (1765)
Cash crop that created profit and led to the development of slavery in early Virginia
tobacco
State originally founded as a haven for prisoners, one of the last of the original 13 colonies to form
Georgia
Boundary British government created along the Appalachian Mountains that prevented Anglo Americans from going west beyond it (was mostly ignored)
Proclamation Line of 1763
Former enslaved man who escaped slavery and became a prominent Black abolitionist who gave lots of speeches advocating for the end of slavery
Frederick Douglass
1763 Fight by alliance of Great Lakes Native Americans against British forces, led by Ottawa leader; showed Native Americans working together against Europeans.
Pontiac's Rebellion
The transfer of food (like potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, corn), as well as animals (cows, sheep, pigs) and diseases, between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Columbian Exchange
1692 set of court cases accusing and convicting various members (mostly women) of New England of occult activity
Salem Witch Trials
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, prohibited slavery north of a boundary across the continent
Missouri Compromise (1820-21)
Wife of the 2nd US president, wrote to her husband asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new laws for the US after the Revolutionary War.
Abigail Adams
Deadliest slave revolt in US history in Southampton, Virginia that lasted several days
Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
Event where Anglo-American colonists protested British taxes by throwing shipments of tea in Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Area of North America that President Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State bought in 1803 and Lewis and Clark explored with the guidance of a Shoshone woman named Sacagawea
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Announcement by Royal Governor of Virginia that promised freedom for enslaved men who fought on the British side during the Revolutionary War
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
Sachem of Wampanoag who led a war against the Anglo settlers in Massachusetts in the 1670s
Metacom/King Philip
Law that forced tens of thousands of Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Rebellion against Virginia's governor, led mostly by white indentured servants and Black free and enslaved men; led to laws that worked to separate white and black people
Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
1850s violence erupting over whether or not a specific state would be a free or slave state when it joined the union
"Bleeding Kansas"
Admitted California as a free state, banned slave trade in DC, strengthened fugitive slave law, created New Mexico and Utah territories without determining whether they were free or slave
Compromise of 1850
Puritan dissenter who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy
Anne Hutchison
South Carolina slave revolt led by an African man named Jemmy or Cato; led to 1740 South Carolina laws that restricted more freedoms for enslaved people and international slave trade
Stono Rebellion (1739)
Religious separatists who settled in Plymouth colony in 1621
Pilgrims
Battle between a confederation of tribes at Prophetstown and US troops led by William Henry Harrison that resulted in a US victory.
Tippecanoe Battle (1811)
3/5 clause (or 3/5 compromise)