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This act placed a tax on paper in the British colonies as way to pay for debts from the French and Indian war
What is the Stamp Act?
Issued in 1765, this act placed a tax on paper in the British colonies as way to pay for debts from the French and Indian war while also requiring the only the use of paper with a stamp from London
What is the Stamp Act?
What are Rome and Greece?
This was a Charter colony founded by Pilgrims in the 1620s in the Northeast
What is Massachusetts?
Popularized in Europe during the Renaissance, this belief shifted the focus of art, religion, and architecture away from God
What is humanism?
This document created in 1215 made it so ordinary citizens and the king were held accountable to the law
What is the Magna Carta?
This act taxed issued in 1764 molasses, wine, coffee shipped from the West Indies ultimately seeking to damage trade relationships between the British colonies and other nations
What is the Sugar Act?
Washington D.C has a name river named after this native nation
Who are the Nacotchatank (Anacostine)?
This Middle colony was a proprietary colony with the intention of being a safe haven for Catholics and eventually providing land for the capital of the United States
What is Maryland?
During the Renaissance, theologian Martin Luther criticized the Catholic Church as being greedy and out of alignment with the bible this ushered in wider criticism spurring the belief the church should be corrected
What is Reformation?
Created in 1689 this document introduced rights to the common people while limiting the power of the monarchy. Those rights included: to petition the king, to bear arms, no excessive bails or fines, and free elections
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This act issued in 1767 were a series of laws aimed at limiting self-government, collecting more taxes, increasing British supervision over imports and exports, and lowering the cost of importing tea to England to deter the purchase of tea from Dutch merchants
What is the Townshend Acts?
The Oneida, Seneca, Mohawk,Onondaga, Cayuga, Tuscarora made up this pre-colonization confederacy with the aim of ensuring peace among the nations.
What is the Haudenosaunee?
In 1619, this Southern colony was home to the first shipment of kidnapped Africans brought to the colony to grow Tobacco
What is Virginia?
The belief that objects, places and people all have distinct spirits.
What is Animism?
Issued in 1493, a year after Columbus arrived in the Western Hemisphere, this document declared that Spain had a right to all lands in the region where Columbus had landed and that any land no inhabited by Christians was subject to be conquered.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
Issued in 1765, British colonists were responsible for housing British soldiers and providing food and provisions for them
What is the Quartering Act?
Before 1492, Mansa Musa influenced European travel to West Africa and beyond when he took a pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert through Egypt and to Mecca while ruler of this nation
What is Mali?
Founded by a religious group known as Quakers, this Middle colony was home to the Capital of the United States until 1790 and known for abolitionist ideas
What is Pennsylvania?
This mantra means to Think before speaking and acting
What is Sia Hu Heka?
Adopted by Congress in November of 1777, but not fully accepted by states until March of 1781, this document United the 13 colonies while recognizing them a independent entities so not to centralize power. This was the first form of the US Constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Issued in 1774 this act closed the ports of Boston to all trade except for essential items like food and provisions for British troops and expanded the power of British elected governors in the colonies
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Besides their involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, this nation was notable for their women military regiment. As depicted in Women King
What is Dahomey (presently Benin)?
Granted a charter in 1732, this Souther colony was intended to be a place where those recently released from prison could shoot for a second chance
What is Georgia?
The four agreements are
What are impeccable speech, don't take things personal, don't make assumptions and always try your best.