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| Articles of Confederation | The first government of the USA which gave states all the power. |
| Federalist | Name given to a person for the Constitution |
| Bill of Rights | The 1st 10 amendmments to the Constitution which protect individual rights. |
| Shays | Name of a rebellion which showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. |
| Great | Name for the Constitutional compromise which decided representation in Congress. |
| three-fifths | Name for the Constitutional compromise which determined how slaves would be counted in the population for representation in the Govt. |
| Columbian | Name for the swapping of good and bad things which happened when European Explorers came to the Americas. |
| Ponce de Leon | Spanish Explorer who first explored the Southeastern US. |
| Treaty of Demarcation | Nme for when the Pope split up the New World between Spain and Portugal. |
| Puritans | These people came over on the Mayflower so that they could escape religious persecution in Europe. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Female colonial religious leader who helped found Rhode Island. |
| Indentured Servant | These people traded seven years of manual labor for passage to the New World |
| Mayflower Compact | Document signed by the Puritans which was the first form of government in the New World. |
| Salutary Neglect | When the British let their colonies run themselves- this led to indepent feelings among the colonies. |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative government in the New World. |
| Crispus Attucks | African American shot during the Boston Massacre- one of the 1st casualties of the American Revolution |
| John Locke | Thomas Jefferson got many ideas he put in the Declaration of Independence from this man's book. |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote "Common Sense"- a book which made many people for the Revolution. |
| Lexington | Along with Concord this was the first battle of the American Revolution. |
| Yorktown | Final battle of the American Revolution. |
