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| God, Gold and Glory | reasons for exploration and colonization |
| 1607 | year the that Jamestown was settled |
| Mercantilism | Nations increase their wealth by exporting more than they import |
| Southern Colonies | colonies with fertile soil, warm climate, economy based on cash crops |
| Middle Colonies | colonies with the nickname "The Breadbasket" |
| New England Colonies | colonies with cold weather, economy based on lumber, trade |
| William Penn | established a colony that has religious freedom and equality for all |
| Subsistence Farming | growing enough food to feed your family |
| Zenger Trial | colonists had the right to freedoms of speech and press |
| John Locke | person who believed people had natural rights, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness |
| Indentured servant | person who was unable to afford their passate to the Americas, was willing to work for someone for a set amount of time in order for passage to Americas |
| Swampy location caused disease to spread | one reason for the low survival rate of Jamestown colonists |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | first representative assembly in the colonies |
| Mayflower Compact | set self government and majority rule, 1630 |
| Religious Freedoms | why many people came to the colonies |
| Pilgrims | religious group who wrote the Mayflower Compact |
| Representative | kind of government the colonies had |
| Backcountry | region located along the Appalachian Mountains and had several natural resources |
| Who won the French and Indian War? | the British |
| Treaty of Paris, 1763 | officially ended the French and Indian war |
| smuggling and boycotting | ways that colonists showed their disapproval of taxes |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to fgive British troops food and a place to live |
| Olive Branch Petition | Colonists' last attempt to work things out with Britain peacefully |
| Patrick Henry | the person who said "..but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" |
| To whom were the grievances in the Declaration of Independence addressed? | King George |
| Yorktown | last official battle of the war where British Gen. Cornwallis surrendered |
| Unalieinable rights | rights that the government cannot take away |
| Thomas Jefferson | the main author of the Dec. of Independence |
| Thomas Payne | the writer of "Common Sense" |
| George Washington | the general of the Continental Army |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet convincing Americans to completely break away from Britain |
| Loyalists | a group who did not want to break away from Britain |
| Patriots | the group that wanted to break away from Britain |
| Lexintgon and Concord | known as the "shots heard 'round the world." |
| Battle of Saratoga | turning point of the war, when France began to help Americans |
| no taxation | without representation |
| Valley Forge | symbol of the colonists' hardship during the American Revolution |
| Declaration of Independence | written in 1776, declared colonists' independence from Britain |
