american history

• The War Hawks were members of Congress who favored war with Great Britain during the period leading up to the War of 1812
• Writing that exaggerates the news to the readers
• Jamestown eventually prospered due to tobacco.
• The Puritans believed they knew how to live their lives.
• The Middle Colonies were nicknamed the Breadbasket.
• Most plantations were found in the Southern colonies.
• The first Africans in the colonies were considered as indentured servants.
• The first representative government in the colonies was the VA House of Burgesses.
• The colonists and the Native Americans had conflicts over land competition.
• The differences in the economic development of the colonies were due to geographical conditions.
• The cult of domesticity stated that women were the moral leader and educator of the family.
• The Quakers were against war and slavery.
• Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams helped establish the principle of freedom of religion.
• Ben Franklin attempted to unite the British and the colonists against the French and Indians with his Albany Plan of Union.
• The French and Indian War began in the Ohio River Valley.
• The British had a huge war debt at the end of the French and Indian War.
• Patrick Henry is famous for saying “Give me liberty or give me death?”
• Under mercantilism, the colonies were to provide England with raw materials and the Navigation Acts were part of this system.
• Common Sense urged Americans to declare independence.
• The colonists believed that their own colonial assemblies could tax them.
• John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson.
• Crispus Attucks, a former slave, was killed at the Boston Massacre.
• The “shot heard ‘round the world” occurred at the Battle of Lexington.
• The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the war as it brought a French alliance.
• The unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• In a democracy, the power comes from the people.
• The closing battle of the American Revolution was the Battle of Yorktown.
• The first form of government in the US was the Articles of Confederation.
• The Articles of Confederation were thrown out at the Constitutional Convention.
• The Federalists wanted a strong central government; the Anti-Federalists wanted strong state governments.
• The Three-fifths Compromise stated that 3/5 of all slaves were to be counted toward population.
• The Great Compromise settled how large and small states would be represented in Congress.
• James Madison is considered the “Father of the Constitution”.
• The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect basic freedoms.
• The framers of the Constitution balanced the powers in the government by creating three branches and using checks and balances.
• The President can limit the power of Congress by veto.
• The 1st Amendment provides for freedom of speech.
• The Electoral College was used to elect the President.
• Alexander Hamilton was President Washington’s financial advisor.
• The Sedition Act provided for imprisonment for those who criticized the government.