| A | B |
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| first written constitution in the colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia | Southern Colonies |
| written in 1620, founded self government "for the good of the colony" | Mayflower Compact |
| first permanent English settlement founded in Virginia | Jamestown |
| New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware | Middle Colonies |
| founded by Pilgrims in 1620 who were escaping religious persecution | Plymouth |
| government created by the people, for the people | Self-Government |
| Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island | New England Colonies |
| first representative government in the colonies | House of Burgesses |
| ability to practice and worship without persecution | Religious Freedom |
| law that allowed Catholics and Protestants to worship freely | Act of Toleration |
| Agriculture: corn, wheat, rye, barley Economy: mining, shipbuilding, forestry and fur trapping | Middle Colonies |
| Agriculture: tobacco, rice, indigo Economy: shipbuilding, rum, slave trade | Southern Colonies |
| Agriculture: subsistence farming Economy: forestry, fishing, trade, whaling, shipbuilding | New England Colonies |
| founded on religious freedom, yet those who did not practice their religion of the colony were forced out. Led to the creation of other colonies that were founded on religious freedom. | New England Colonies |
| most culturally diverse region both ethnically and religiously. Settlers include English, Dutch, Quakers, Germans, Irish, Swedes and Swiss. | Middle Colonies |
| Home to plantations where cash crops are managed through slave labor. | Southern Colonies |
| founded Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers | William Penn |
| General of the Continental Army | George Washington |
| Author of the pamphlet Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Created the Albany Plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin |
| Founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop |
| Founder of Maryland as haven for Catholics | Lord Baltimore |
| soldier that saved Jamestown | John Smith |
| General of the British Army that surrendered at Yorktown | Charles Cornwallis |
| Lawyer that defended British soldiers involved with the Boston Massacre | John Adams |
| Creator of the Sons of Liberty | Samuel Adams |
| Jewish immigrant who financed the war | Haym Saloman |
| Midnight rider who alerted the colonists to British invasion | Paul Revere |
| African American wh was killed in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| Governor of Louisiana Territory who defended Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico from British | Bernardo de Galvez |
| first to sign the Declaration of Independence, most prominent smuggler in the colonies | Thomas Jefferson |
| victory that changed the tide of the war by proving to France that the Americans could win | Battle of Saratoga |
| site of Washington's winter encampment during the winter of 1777-78 | Valley Forge |
| treaty between America and England that recognized Amercia as an independent nation | Treaty of Paris |
| "shot heard around the world", first battle of the American Revolution | Battle of Lexington and Concord |
| tax on tea in the colonies to help save the British East India Company | Tea Act |
| war between England and France over the Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War |
| plan written by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies under a central government to fight the French | Albany Plan of Union |
| system created under the Articles of Confederation that outlined requirements to become a state | Northwest Ordinance |
| document that stated the 13 colonies were a free and independent nation | Declaration of Independence |
| tax on newspapers, government documents and playing cards | Stamp Act |
| protest where colonists dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor | Boston Tea Party |
| published essay that urged the colonies to declare independence | Common Sense |
| riot outside the Custom's House in Boston that led to the killing of 5 unarmed colonists when British soldiers fired into the crowd | Boston Massacre |
| law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| series of laws passed to punish Boston for the tea party | Intolerable Acts |
| tax on glass, paper, paint, lead and tea | Townshend Acts |
| 1st government of America created after the Declaration of Independence; gave more power to state governments and little power to the central government. | Articles of Confederation |
| theory that a nation's economic strength comes from protecting and increasing its' home economy by keeping strict control over its colonial trade. | mercantilism |
| someone who is loyal to the crown during the revolution | Loyalists |
| someone who believes in declaring independence from England | Patriots |
| riot led by farmers who were going to lose land to taxes | Shay's Rebellion |
