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What are the rights you have from birth- life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
Unalienable Rights
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the turning point of the American Revolution?
Saratoga
What country allied with the Patriots after the Battle of Saratoga?
France?
What was the result of the battle of Yorktown?
The British surrendered and the war ended
What did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 say
The US was an independent country
What was the first federal government in the US
Articles of Conederation
What the idea that the government must have the permission of the citizens to act?
Consent of the governed
What was the law that made a process for admitting new states?
Northwest Ordinance
List one requirement of the Northwest oridinace
State constitution, Territories govern themselves, 60,000 people to become a state
What era featured people writing a government for the United States?
Constitution Era
What country claimed Florida, Texas, and California in the exploration era?
Spain
Which group of colonies were founded for religious freedom by Puritans
New England Colonies
What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
No president, no power to tax
What was the name of the trade system that took Africans to plantations?
Trans-atlantic slave trade
Which government had no executive branch or power to tax?
Articles of Confederation
