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  • Why were explorers trying to find the Northwest psasage?
    To find a route to Asia to get luxury goods
  • What did John Locke say were unalienable rights?
    Life, liberty, property
  • What was the result of the battle of Yorktown?
    The British surrendered and the war ended
  • Which government had no executive branch or power to tax?
    Articles of Confederation
  • What year was Jamestown made the first permanent settlement?
    1607
  • What year was the Declaration
  • What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
    No president, no power to tax
  • What document complained about the lack of trial by Jury in the 13 colonies?
    Declaration of Independence
  • What the idea that the government must have the permission of the citizens to act?
    Consent of the governed
  • What era featured people writing a government for the United States?
    Constitution Era
  • What was the name of the trade system that took Africans to plantations?
    Trans-atlantic slave trade
  • What are the rights you have from birth- life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
    Unalienable Rights
  • What was the turning point of the American Revolution?
    Saratoga
  • Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
    Thomas Jefferson
  • What was the first federal government in the US
    Articles of Conederation
  • List one requirement of the Northwest oridinace
    State constitution, Territories govern themselves, 60,000 people to become a state
  • What was one strength of the Articles of Confederation?
    Post office, manage war
  • What group of colonies grew oats, wheat, grain and raised livestock?
    The Middle Colonies
  • What did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 say
    The US was an independent country
  • What country claimed Florida, Texas, and California in the exploration era?
    Spain
  • What was the slogan of the Patriots before the American Revolution
    No Taxation without representation
  • Who was Roger Williams?
    Founded Rhode Island for religious toleration
  • What was the law that made a process for admitting new states?
    Northwest Ordinance
  • Which group of colonies were founded for religious freedom by Puritans
    New England Colonies
  • What country allied with the Patriots after the Battle of Saratoga?
    France?
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