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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, was founded

1607

Agreement signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, to consult each other about laws for the colony and a promise to work together to make it succeed.

Mayflower Compact

A member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence.

Sam Adams

The King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies.

King George III

He Founded Georgia as a haven for English debtors.

James Oglethorpe

Policy that said the Colonies existed to benefit England

Mercantilism

Laws designed to enforce Mercantilism that required all goods shipped out of the Colonies to be sold to England

Navigation Acts

The tax placed on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice

Stamp Act

Placed a tax on glass, paper, paint, lead and tea

Townshend Acts

Acts that closed the port of Boston, outlawed town meetings, allowed British officials accused of crimes to be tried in England and enacted a new quartering act.

The Intolerable Acts

Puritans in Massachusetts governed their colony with this. A group of male church members elected to make decisions for what was “generally” best for the colony

General Court

Plan of government used by Thomas Hooker in Connecticut. It gave all male property owners the right to vote and limited the power of the Governor.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The first representative assembly in the New World.

The Virginia House of Burgesses

Law in Maryland that allowed all Christians t practice their religion freely

Maryland Toleration Act

Series of laws in the Southern Colonies that set out rules for the behavior of slaves and ensured that slaves were treated as property

Slave Codes

He wrote the Declaration of Independence; became the 3rd President of the United States and in 1803, purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson

He was the leader of the Continental Army who became the first President of the United States.

George Washington

He wrote pamphlets like Common Sense and The Crisis to encourage American independence and resolve.

Thomas Paine

He was an inventor, statesman, diplomat, signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to Constitutional Convention.

Ben Franklin

He was arrested and charged with libel for printing an article in a newspaper that was critical of the governor of New York. Today the Bill of Rights protects the press from arrests like this.

John Peter Zenger

These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.

Lexington and Concord

This petition was a last minute attempt to avoid war with England. In it the Colonies declared their loyalty to the King and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.

The Olive Branch Petition

This document listed 27 grievances the Colonies had against the King of England

The Declaration of Independence

This battle is known as the turning point of the Revolutionary War

Saratoga

This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War. General Cornwallis surrendered to Americans after retreating to the sea and being caught between the Continental Army and the French Navy

Yorktown

This area, across the Appalachian Mountains, was claimed by both England and France. Conflict over this area led to the French and Indian War.

The Ohio River Valley

Ben Franklin proposed a plan for the Colonies to unite in response to the French and Indian War.

The Albany Plan of Union

He became famous for his heroism in the French and Indian War.

George Washington

Treaty that ended the French and Indian War and marked an end to French power in North America.

The Treaty of Paris

This law forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War. This land was promised to the Colonists by the King in exchange for their help in fighting the French.

The Proclamation of 1763