Gold (to get rich) - God (for religious freedom) - Glory (to become famous)

It was the first successful English colony. John Smith was the leader

Plymouth

A Separatist wanted to separate from the Church of England and Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England's practices and beliefs.

The first representative government in Jamestown, Virginia

It created an agreement to make laws and rules for the Plymouth Colony.

Goods were traded between the areas. Diseases were also spread

Diseases being spread

The belief that the colonies exist to benefit the mother nation.

Fishing, shipping, and trade

Farming and trade

Farming

Slave labor

Religious freedom

The French and their Indian allies fought against the British and their Indian allies.

The Ohio River Valley

A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British colonists that took place west of the Appalachian Mountains.

It prevented British colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains starting in 1763.

It placed a tax on all printed materials, such as newspapers, magazines, and wills. It also required that a stamp be placed on printed materials as proof of having paid the tax.

It required British colonists to provide shelter and food for British soldiers living in the colonies.

The Tea Act led to this 1773 protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.

The British Parliament

To refuse to buy certain goods and products

To close off a port so that goods and supplies cannot get into or out of a port

Thomas Paine

It was a petition sent to King George III of Great Britain asking for one last chance for peace. It declared colonial loyalty to Britain.

It listed the reasons why the British colonies should be free and independent of Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson was the author

George Washington

Loyalists

Patriots

Lexington and Concord

The Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Saratoga

The Battle of Yorktown

A weak or loose national government with strong state governments

The Articles of Confederation did not include an executive branch, a judicial branch, and each state was able to print its own money.

This law created a process to add new states into the country and banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.

Land Ordinance of 1785

Shays' Rebellion

Legislative Branch

Executive Branch

Judicial Branch

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Great Compromise

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Three-Fifths Compromise

435 members

100 members

1st Amendment

2nd Amendment

3rd Amendment

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

Cabinet

He wanted to create a national banking system

When one country captures another country's ships and forces sailors to either serve in their navy or go to prison

Not taking sides in a conflict

A 1794 protest led by farmers in Western Pennsylvania because of a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United States

A 1793 statement by President George Washington that said the United States would stay neutral in foreign affairs.

A speech written by President George Washington warning Americans not to create political parties and not to make permanent foreign alliances.

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

A 1797 French attempt to bribe the United States by demanding money before discussing French impressment of neutral American ships

They punished any person who criticized the government.

There was a tie between the two Democratic-Republican candidates.

The power of the Supreme Court to review all laws passed by Congress to make sure that they are constitutional. Marbury v. Madison established this principle.

France

It doubled the size of the United States.

Find a direct route to the Pacific Ocean, make friends with the Native Americans, study plants and animals, and make maps.

The United States and Britain

The Battle of Fort McHenry

The Battle of New Orleans

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

A tax on imported goods

To cancel

The right of the United States to expand westward and get all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

They fought over Texas border issues. The Mexicans claimed the Texas border was the Nueces River and the United States claimed the Texas border was the Rio Grande River.

Texas

Spain

Mexican Cession

Gadsden Purchase

To add on

It refers to America's desire to acquire all of the Oregon territory from the British in the 1840s.

The discovery of gold

Eli Whitney

The right to vote

Abolitionist

It was created to help slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada. Harriet Tubman

The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property and not citizens of the United States

Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. No slavery was permitted north of Missouri, but it was permitted to the south of Missouri.

The right of the people of a state to decide if their state would be a slave or free state.

It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed settlers to decide slavery based on popular sovereignty.

It required that fugitive (or runaway) slaves be returned to their owners.

California became a free state, Utah and New Mexico could decide slavery based on popular sovereignty, the slave trade ended in Washington, D.C., and a Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

They were all attempts to deal with the issue of expanding slavery into the western territories.

The election of Abraham Lincoln

He wanted to bring the Southern states back into the Union.

The North or Union

They had a better familiarity with the land and areas were the war was fought.

South Carolina

Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln

This was the North's (or Union's) plan to defeat the South (or Confederates) during the Civil War.

The Battle of 1st Bull Run (or 1st Manassas)

The Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Vicksburg

The Battle of Gettysburg

It freed all the slaves living in the Confederate States.

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

John Wilkes Booth

General Robert E. Lee (South/Confederates) and General Ulysses S. Grant (North/Union)