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What are town meetings?
Puritans in New England held these so people couple solve problems together.
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What are Lexington and Concord?
The American Revolution started in 1775 with these battles.
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What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This battle was considered the turning point of the American Revolution because after this American victory, France began to help the Continental Army.
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What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was the first set of laws for the United States
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What are cash crops?
The Middle Colonies had people that mostly earned their living through farming this.
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What are the Navigation Acts?
These helped the colonies trade with the West Indies, Europe, and Africa.
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What is the Stamp Act?
Because of this act the colonists had to pay a tax on paper products.
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What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The Americans won the American Revolution after the British were defeated here on October 19, 1781.
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What is the Bill of Rights?
These protect the individual rights and freedoms of Americans and are the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
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What are checks and balances?
This principle of the Constitution ensures no branch of government can be stronger than another.
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Where is New England?
Public school education began here.
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What is the Quartering Act?
This Act required colonists to provide food and shelter for the British soldiers.
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What is the Second Continental Congress?
This group first met in May 1775 and created a Continental Army.
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What is the Northwest Ordinance?
In 1787 this divided the Northwest Territory into five territories which became five new states in the US.
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What is the Seven Years War?
The French and Indian War actually lasted nine years but was also known as this War.
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What is vote or work in the government?
Colonial women could not do these two things.
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What is Great Britain?
After the French and Indian War, France lost most of its empire in North America. Who gained Canada and the Ohio Valley?
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What is the Declaration of Independence?
Americans were publicly stating to the world that King George had ruled them unfairly when they approved this document on July 4, 1776.
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Where is Philadelphia?
In May, 1787, 55 delegates met here to write a new Constitution.
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What is the government gets power from the people?
This principle of the Constitution ensures that the American people always retain power so the government cannot become too powerful.
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What are the Southern Colonies
Most people in these colonies owned small farms, but rich plantation owners controlled government and business.
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What are British war debts?
After the French and Indian War, the British Parliament passed tax laws for the colonies to help pay for this.
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Who is George Washington?
The Second Continental Congress met in May 1775 and made this man commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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Who were the Antifederalists?
The Federalists and this group argued over the Constitution, which was ratified in 1788.
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What is flexibility?
This principle of the Constitution ensures that as the nation changes, the Constitution can as well.
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