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| Bacon | led a rebellion of farmers in Jamestown because the colonie's police did not protect them from indians. |
| King Phillip | This chief's tribe was wiped out by Puritain settlers in Massachusetts. |
| French and Indian | War which helped cause the American Revolution because England needed to pay for it with taxes and because of new land taken from the French. |
| taxes | A major reason the American Revolution starts. |
| Intolerable Acts | The last British Law before fighting in the Revolution. It tried to shut down Massachusetts. |
| Marquia de Lafayette | French soldier who helped to lead and train our soldiers in the Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Treaty that ended the Revolution. US gets its freedom and all land to the Missisippi River. |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781. |
| Shays | Rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts which showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and leads to the Constitution. |
| Whiskey | Rebellion by Pennsylvania farmers quickly put down by George Washington. This showed the strength of the new Constitutional Government. |
| Great Britain, USA | The two countries that fight in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. |
| Impressment | One of the reasons for the War of 1812. Refers to the British kidnapping American sailors off of US ships for their own navy. |
| Take over Canada | One reason US politicians wanted to fight the War of 1812. |
| Indian attacks on the frontier supported by the British | A reason we fight the British in the War of 1812. |
| Tie | Result of the War of 1812. |
| War of 1812 | the war in which our capitol was burned. |
| Andrew Jackson | He became a national hero after winning the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. |
| Era of Good Feelings | term which explains our great sense of nationalism (pride) after the War of 1812. |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction | The USA was looking for these during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. |
| Enduring Freedom | Name for the US invasion of Afganistan in 2002 to destroy Al Qaeda training grounds and find Osama Bin Laden. |
