Exploration & Colonization
Main reasons Europeans came to the New World (3 Gs)
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
Phrase that describes colonists’ complaint about taxes
What is “no taxation without representation”?
First battles of the American Revolution
What are Lexington and Concord?
Type of government created by the AOC
What is a weak central government?
Group that supported the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
Colony founded for economic profit and tobacco farming
What is Jamestown?
Protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Event that showed the federal government under the AOC was too weak
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Group that feared a strong central government
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
War that left Britain in debt and led to taxing colonists
What is the French and Indian War?
Turning point battle that convinced France to help the colonies in the Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Major weakness of the AOC: Congress could not do this
What is collect taxes?
Anti-feds wanted this added to the Constitution to protect individual rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
Trade system connecting Africa, Europe, and the Americas
What is triangular trade? (Transatlantic Trade)
Tax on printed materials like newspapers and documents
What is the Stamp Act?
Document in which the colonists declared the want for independence from Great Britain
What is the DOI?
This number of states had to agree to make changes to the Articles of Confederation.
13 (13 out of 13)
These are the 2 primary Anti-federalists
Who are George Mason and Patrick Henry?
Under mercantilism, the colonies provided these to England
Colonists reaction to the Intolerable Acts
What is the First Continental Congress?
3 people who helped train the Continental Army.
Who are Washington, Lafayette, and Von Steuben?
This created a process for admitting new states to the Union
What is the NW Ordinance?
Essays written to support ratification of the Constitution
What are the Federalist Papers?