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Columbian Exchange : Widespread transfer of animals plants culture human populations communicable diseases technology and ideas between the American and Afro Eurasian hemispheres
Mission System : Comprise a series of 21 religious and military outposts
Jointstock Companies : Business entity where different stakes can be bought and owned by shareholders
House of Burgesses : The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
Mayflower Compact : The first governing document of Plymouth Colony
Pilgrims : A traveler who is on a journey to a holy place
Puritans : A group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries
Quakers : Members of a family of religious movements collectively known as the Religious Society of Friends
13 Colonies : The British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 Virginia and 1733 Georgia
Triangular Trade Route : Trade among three ports or regions
Indentured servants : A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time usually seven years
French and Indian War : The North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War
1st and 2nd Continental Congress : Conventions of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
Proclamation of 1763 : An attempt to prevent the colonists from going west and passed the Appalachian Mountains
Stamp Act No Taxation without representation : An act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London
Boston Massacre : An incident on March 5 1770 in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others
Boston Tea Party : A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16 1773
Intolerable Acts and Coercive Acts : The American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party
Shot heard around the world : Several historical incidents including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914
Thomas Paines Common Sense : A pamphlet that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776
Declaration of Independence : A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 which announced that the thirteen American colonies and then war with Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states
Articles of Confederation : A document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
Constitutional Convention : A convention to address problems in governing the United States of America
Anti federalists and Federalists : Opposed the ratification of the constitution and For the constitution
1st Great Awakening : An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America and especially the American colonies
Members of a family of religious movements collectively known as the Religious Society of Friends
A traveler who is on a journey to a holy place
A group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries
The British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 Virginia and 1733 Georgia
Comprise a series of 21 religious and military outposts
An incident on March 5 1770 in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16 1773
The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony
An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America and especially the American colonies
Widespread transfer of animals plants culture human populations communicable diseases technology and ideas between the American and Afro Eurasian hemispheres
The North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War
A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time usually seven years
An attempt to prevent the colonists from going west and passed the Appalachian Mountains
Business entity where different stakes can be bought and owned by shareholders
Trade among three ports or regions
A document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
Several historical incidents including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914
A pamphlet that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776
A convention to address problems in governing the United States of America
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 which announced that the thirteen American colonies and then war with Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states
Conventions of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
Opposed the ratification of the constitution and For the constitution
The American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party
An act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London