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| agriculture | What is raising livestock and growing crops called? |
| Benjamin Franklin | Who was an inventor, an author of the Declaration of Independence, and American minister to France? |
| century | What is a period of 100 years |
| economic | What word means - the distribution, earing, and spending of money? |
| George Washington | Who was the general of the Continental Army and first president of the United States? |
| Great Awakening | What was a revival of religios feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s? |
| King George III | Who was the King of England during the American Revolution? |
| Magna Carta | What was the document signed by King John in 1215 which granted Englishmen basic human rights? |
| Mayflower Compact | What was teh agreement in 1620 that the Pilgrims made for self-government in the New World? |
| mercantilism | What was the economic system where a colony provided raw materials to the mother country and served as a market for the finished goods? |
| primary sources | What is a document written first hand by the person whom we are studying? |
| secondary sources | What is a document written by a second party ABOUT an event or person? |
| representative government | What is a government in which the people elect delegates to run their government? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence? |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | What was the first representative government in the colonies? |
| Battle of Lexington/ Concord | What battle was fought in 1775 in which the first shots of the American Revolution were fired? |
| Declaration of Independence | What was the document signed on July 4, 1776 that declared the United States of America independent from British rule? |
| Thomas Paine | Writer of Common Sense. This 50 page pamphlet gained a tremendous amount of support for independence from England. |
| unalienable rights | rights that government cannot take away - specifically: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
