| A | B |
|---|
| where the first Americans probably came from | Asia |
| man whose crew first circumnavigated the globe | Magellan |
| English pirates | sea dogs |
| early attempt at colonization that disappeared | Roanoke |
| first successful English colony | Jamestown |
| people who worked to earn their passage to the New World | indentured servants |
| colony founded for Quakers | Pennsylvania |
| cash crop that made Jamestown a financial success | tobacco |
| conquered the Incas | Pizarro |
| conquered the Aztecs | Cortez |
| what European exlplorers were searching for in the late1400's | an all water route to Asia |
| colony that was founded as a haven for Catholics | Maryland |
| guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland | Toleration Act of 1649 |
| founded Georgia | Oglethorpe |
| colony founded for English debtors | Georgia |
| event that cause Spain to lose control of her American empire | defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| wanted to purify the Church of England | Puritans |
| religious dissidents that wanted to leave the Church of England | Separatists |
| a plan to unite the colonies to face the French in the French and Indian War | Albany Plan of Union |
| laws designed to make sure that Britain's American colonies would be profitable | Naviagtion Acts |
| law that taxed paint, lead, paper, glass and tea | Townshend Acts |
| taxed wills, newspapers and other printed material | Stamp Act |
| protest of the monopoly that the British East India Company had on the colonial tea trade | Boston Tea Party |
| laws passed to punish Boson for the Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| According to the Declaration of Independence, where the authority to govern comes from | the people |
| where General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington | Yorktown |
| was outlawed by the Northwest Ordinance | slavery |
| ordered American colonists to not settle west of the Appalachian Mountians | Proclamation of 1763 |
| acted as the government during the American Revolution | Second Continental Congress |
| treaty that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
| set up a system to survey and sell the western lands | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| the French and Indian War was fought for the control of this territory | Ohio River Valley |
| only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation | legislative (Congress of the Confederation) |
| branch of government that makes laws | legislatve |
| branch of government that enforces or carries out the law | executive |
| the first ten amendments | Bill of Rights |
| number of states that were required to ratifiiy the Constitution before it would effect | nine |
| officially elects the president | electoral college |
| a written change to the Constitution | amendment |
| favored rarification of the Constitution | Federalists |
| purpose of the Philadelphia Convention | to amend the Articles of Confederation |
| settles the dispute over how Congress would be apportioned | Great Compromise |
| declared the the US would be neutral during the French Revolution | Proclamation of Neutrality |
| British practice of stealing American sailors | impressment |
| Jefferson's political party | Democratic Republican |
| country from whom the US acquired Lousiana | France |
| law that forbade US ships from sailing for any foreign ports | Embargo Act |
| Lewis and Clark's Indian guide | Sacajawea |
| congressmen who pushed for war agianst Great Britain | war hawks |
| American commander who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
| Washington's secretary of the treasury | Alexander Hamilton |
| ended the War of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |
| perfected the steamboat | Robert Fulton |
| required people to return runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Law |
| former mission that became the site of a major battle in the Texas war of independence | Alamo |
| the practice of giving government jobs to political supporters | spoils system |
| invention that increased the demand for slave labor | the cotton gin |
| reason the Mormon's moved to Utah | religious freedom |
| Bear Flag Republic | California |
| worked to reform conditions for prisoners and mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
| what American manufacturers wanted to protect their industryy | a high tariff |
| the US went war with Mexico to obtain this territory | California and the Southwest |
| worked for an immediate end to slavery | abolitionists |
| idea that the issue of slavery should be decided by the voters in a territory | popular sovereignty |
| reasons why some did not want Texas as a state | 1-slaves 2- fear that it woulud provke war with Mexico |
