| A | B |
|---|
| "City of brotherly love" | Philadelphia |
| New Amsterdam | is now called New York |
| Thomas Hooker | established Connecticut |
| Roger Williams | established Rhode Island |
| plantations | large farms in the Southern colonies |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | written by Benjamin Franklin |
| Mayflower Compact | signed by the Pilgrims to give them the beginnings of self-government |
| Appalachian Mountains | lies directly west of the 13 colonies |
| House of Burgesses | 1st form of representative government in the New World |
| Triangular Trade | trade between Africa, the West Indies, and the New England colonies |
| religious freedom | what the Pilgrims and Puritans were searching for in the New World |
| Quakers | the Society of Friends that settled in Pennsylvania |
| Fort Dusquesne | the French fort at the head of the Ohio River |
| Fort Necessity | built by George Washington and his men |
| Treaty of Paris | signed to end the French and Indian War |
| New Orleans | city that controlled trade on the Mississippi River |
| Paul Revere | rode to warn the colonists that the British were coming |
| George III | King of England during the American Revolution |
| Redcoat | a British soldier |
| Patrick Henry | said, "Give me liberty or give me death." |
| Thomas Gage | British General that controlled Boston under the Intolerable Acts |
| Samuel Adams | leader of the Sons of Liberty |
| Tories | colonists who were loyal to the British government |
| Pontiac | Chief of the Ottawa Indians |
| Philadelphia | First Continental Congress met here |
| Stamp Act | required a tax on all written dcuments |
| Committees of Correspondence | organized to keep colonists informed of events |
| minutemen | Colonial fighting men |
| muskets | colonial rifles |
| imports | goods brought into a country |
| exports | goods sold out of the country |
| Parliament | the law-making body of England |
| Proclamation of 1763 | English colonists could not move across the Appalachian mountains |
| Navigation Acts | all goods shipped to and from the colonis had to be on English ships |
| Intolerable Acts | passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
| representative government | when people elect other people to make laws for them |
| enumerated articles | list of goods that could only be sold in England |
| Washington | leader of the Continental army |
| Cornwallis | surrendered the British troops at Yorktown |
| John Hancock | 1st man to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| France | helped the Americans win the American Revolution |
| Battle at Saratoga | called the turning point of the American Revolution |
| amending | changing a document like the Constitution |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" |
| Washington | 1st President of the United States |
| Jefferson | proposed the idea of the Bill of Rights |
| Jefferson | Washington's Secretary of State |
| Alexander Hamilton | Washington's Secretary of Treasury |
| John Adams | 2nd President of the United States |
| "Father of the Constitution" | James Madison |
| Senators | are elected for 6 year terms |
| Articles of Confederation | our first written form of government |
| congress | the law-making body of the U.S. |
| Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments to the Constitution |
| District of Columbia | what D.C. stands for in Washington D.C. |
| Alexander Hamilton | leader of the Frederalists |
| Jefferson | leader of the Democratic-Republicans |
| tariff | tax on goods brought into a country |
| House of Representatives | each state is represented according to its population size |
| Executive | the President |
| Senate | each state has 2 members |
| Checks and Balances System | 3 branches of government share power to keep one from becoming too strong |
| Atlantic Ocean | separates Europe and the United States |
| Jefferson | bought the Louisisana Territory |
| Lewis and Clark | explored the Louisiana Territory |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" |
| Sacajawea | helped Lewis and Clark |
| Napolean | French leader that sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. |
| James Madison | 4th President of the U.S. |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| John Brown | an abolitionist that led an attack on Harper's Ferry |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| William Lloyd Garrison | was an abolitionist reporter |
| North | leader in manufacturing |
| South Carolina | 1st state to secede from the Union |
| cotton | major crop of the South |
| Underground Railroad | secret routes taken by slaves to escape to the North |
| Dred Scott Case | court case that tried to settle the slavery issue |
| abolish | to stop |
| sates' rights | the idea that individual states have the final say on matters that affect their citizens |
| secession | the idea that a state could leave the Union |
| General Lee | leader of the Confederate army |
| General Grant | leader of the Union army |
| John Wilkes Booth | assasinated President Lincoln |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Appomatox Courthouse | Southern forces surrendered here |
| Washington, D.C. | capital of the Union |
| Richmond, Virginia | capital of the Confederacy |
| impeachment | an attempt to remove a president from office |
