Colonies Come of Age/emerge
This crop turned Jamestown into a profitable English colony
tobacco
This man served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Washington
This document was the first constitution of the United States.
Articles of Confederation
These laws made it a crime to criticize the federal government through certain speeches and writings.
Sedition Act
a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815).
Andrew Jackson
This system encouraged settlers to come to Jamestown by offering them land
headright system
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britain.
Common Sense
This rebellion in Massachusetts exposed the weaknesses of the national government under the Articles of Confederation
Shays Rebellion
This was the British practice of capturing American sailors and forcing them into military service
impressment
What event marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
This Virginia rebellion was led by frontier colonists against the colonial government in 1676
Bacons Rebellion
This 1777 American victory convinced France to openly support the colonies
Battle of Saratoga
This agreement created a two-house Congress, with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other.
Great Compromise
Signed on December 24, 1814, this treaty officially ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo
Treaty of Ghent
Supreme Court case Marbury v Madison established this important part of our court system
judicial review
The combining of Southern Maine to New Jersey by King James II, and was given the name _____________.
Dominion of New England
This 1781 battle ended major fighting in the American Revolution when British forces surrendered.
Battle of Yorktown
The Great Compromise was proposed by this man
Roger Sherman
This treaty gave American traders access to the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.
Pinckneys Treaty
Where did the Continental Army undergo extreme weather conditions and starvation
Valley Forge
The _______ Acts were a series of 17th- and 18th-century British laws designed to regulate colonial trade and squeeze out foreign competitors, especially the Dutch
Navigation
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the Declaration of Independence with his ideas about natural rights and government's responsibility to protect them
John Locke
2 Constitutional Conventions were held where
Annapolis and Philadelphia
Written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional.
The ___________ Resolutions
Virginia and Kentucky
Who was the first person(of African and Native ancestry) to be killed during the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks