US History

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  1. 4. An intense religious sermon written by Jonathan Edwards that was the catalyst for the Great Awakening
  2. 5. Spanish clergyman who criticized slavery
  3. 9. English-born American political philosopher who wrote "Common Sense" and inspired colonial patriots to declare independence
  4. 10. Colony in New England founded by John Winthrop
  5. 13. The chief of the indigenous people near Jamestown
  6. 14. An American general who defected to the British mid-war and became associated with treason
  7. 16. A highly-influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that promoted colonial rebellion against Britain
  8. 17. Territory occupied by France in North America
  9. 18. The battles that marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from America's thirteen colonies in the Revolutionary War
  10. 23. Daughter of Powhatan associated with Jamestown
  11. 24. Humble submission and respect
  12. 26. An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes 1786 and 1787
  13. 29. Explorer and soldier with an important role in the Virginia Colony and Jamestown
  14. 31. Thomas Jefferson's draft for a legal separation of state and church, considering the US government as completely unaffiliated with any religion
  15. 33. An essay written by James Madison that argued for the ratification of the United States Constitution with support from Alexander Hamilton
  16. 34. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca
  17. 35. Assembly of elected officials that served as the first English government in North America
  18. 36. Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
  19. 38. A tremendous writer during the days of the revolution who wrote poems, advised the founding fathers, and chronicled the American Revolution in a work that would be published in 1805
  20. 40. Exchange of disease, culture, etc. between Europe and the Americas
  21. 41. Empire in the Peruvian Highlands with llamas and Machu Picchu
  22. 42. A concept that considers a woman to be the legal possession of her husband, submitting all of her authority and status to him
  23. 43. A British imposition that required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards
  24. 44. Those who were conservative and nationalistic, dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801, and believed in a strong national government
  25. 47. The first permanent English settlement in North America
  26. 48. A sea route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific
  27. 49. A war on Great Britain declared by the US in response to British naval Impressment of US citizens; the war
  28. 50. British American Puritan who sparked the Great Awakening and wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
  29. 51. A woman's social obligation to be a good wife and a good mother, and to raise and educate her children well, especially the boys that would grow up to be voters
  30. 52. A decree from King George III that at least temporarily forbade all new British settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve
  31. 53. A labor contract in which a European person would work for free for several years in the American colonies in exchange for eventual release there
  32. 54. English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough; the liturgy was still too Catholic for them
  33. 55. A war that took place during the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes; the British won
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  1. 1. Native Americans' vulnerability to European diseases
  2. 2. Belief that everything has a spiritual essence
  3. 3. The unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade
  4. 6. The nation's first frame of government, finalized by Congress on November 15, 1777; it came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 colonial states
  5. 7. An ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain
  6. 8. A rejected plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York, proposed by Benjamin Franklin
  7. 11. A series of religious revivals in American Christian history
  8. 12. The stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans[2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
  9. 15. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
  10. 19. An uprising of Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel _____ in a revolt against William Berkeley
  11. 20. English Puritan leader who founded Rhode Island and advocated for peaceful interactions with the Natives
  12. 21. English settlers who travelled to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts
  13. 22. An oceanic trade in African men, women, and children which lasted from the mid-sixteenth century until the 1860s
  14. 25. The first written legal document in the English colonies
  15. 27. Puritan reformer who was put on trial and convicted in Boston for heresy
  16. 28. A process of making things "more British"
  17. 30. A British declaration that they could tax the colonies whenever and however they wanted
  18. 32. Those who advocated for a more decentralized form of government with greater protections for individual rights and stronger representation for the states. Principally, they were afraid that the national government would be too robust and would, thus, threaten states and individual rights
  19. 37. A Native American prophet who preached about rejecting British lifestyles; this inspired Pontiac's Rebellion
  20. 39. An armed conflict after the French and Indian War from 1763 to 1765 that was instigated by Native Americans around the Great Lakes; their revolt was unsuccessful, and Britain gained more territory
  21. 45. First governor of The Massachusetts Bay Colony and a leading Puritan founder of New England
  22. 46. The supreme law of the United States that superseded the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789