Cumulative exam History latest 2023
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William Bradford ✔✔A governor and historian of plymouth colony
John Winthrop ✔✔Governor of Massachusetts Bay colony
Why did settlers come to america? ✔✔Religious f
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Cumulative exam History latest 2023
already graded A
William Bradford ✔✔A governor and historian of plymouth colony
John Winthrop ✔✔Governor of Massachusetts Bay colony
Why did settlers come to america? ✔✔Religious freedom
What was the difference between the Pilgrims and puritans? ✔✔The pilgrims came looking for
religious freedom while the puritans came for religious freedom and many puritans came for
economic opportunity too.
--The puritans came much more prepared with food than the Pilgrims.
--The Pilgrims came wanting to leave the Church of England while the Puritans wanted to purify
it.
--The Puritans arrived at Boston, but the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth
What was the first permanent colony in America? ✔✔Jamestown
House of Burgesses ✔✔Assembly molded after the English Parliament
Pennsylvania Dutch ✔✔Germans who remain in Pennsylvania
Why did Germans and scots-Irish come to America? ✔✔economic and religious freedom
Dame schools ✔✔Open to boys and girls, generally taught by a widow or village spinster
Hornbook ✔✔First book on a board shaped paddle. Alphabet/Lords prayer
Poor Richards Almanac ✔✔Written by Benjamin Franklin
Great Wagon Road ✔✔Old Indian trail from Philly to Carolines. Travled on by many settlers
Why was having a large family important ✔✔Free labor
George Washington ✔✔Americas first president
Pontiac ✔✔Indian labor. Formed confederacy with Indian troops. Started was against the British.
Killed by one of his own
Sugar act ✔✔Tax on sugar, molasses and coffee
Boston Massacre ✔✔British soldiers fired into a civillian crowd to kill
What started the French and Indian War? ✔✔the English were pushing the Natives off of their
territory.
Stamp act ✔✔tax on paper and goods produced in the colony
Treaty of paris ✔✔Ended the French and Indian war. Ended the Revolutionary war.
York Town ✔✔Where general Cornwallis and the British troop surrendered
Baron Von Steubon ✔✔Came to valley forge in a nice German uniform and he was a
drillmaster. Helped train American troops.
Valley Forge ✔✔Where American army camped during revolutionary war
Patriots ✔✔Those who supported their country and declaration of independence.
Loyalists ✔✔Someone who is loyal to the crown and England
Declaration of Independence ✔✔Separation from England declaring Americas independence
Confederation ✔✔Loose alliance of states
Amendment ✔✔Change inn the constitution
Bicameral ✔✔2 House legislature
Checks and Balances ✔✔Allows for a balance of power between the different branches
Federalism ✔✔Division of power between national and state government
Popular Sovereignty ✔✔Ultimate source of government power lies with people
Separation of powers ✔✔No one branch can be stronger than the other
The Constitution ✔✔Founding document written in Philly that provided principles in which our
country is built on.
Federalists ✔✔Supporters of the constitution
Anti-Federalists ✔✔Those who didn't support the constitution
James Madison ✔✔A strong supporter of the republican party
4th president
Father of the constitution/ Bill of rights
Midnight Appointees ✔✔John Adams wanting to put federalists on the supreme court. He sent
papers at midnight. was ruled unconstitutional by supreme court.
Bill of rights ✔✔First 10 amendments of the constitution
Whiskey Rebellion ✔✔PA backwoodsmen in response to Washington's tax on Whiskey
Thomas Jefferson ✔✔Head of the department of state while Washington was president. A leader
of the republican party. 3rd president.
Andrew Jackson ✔✔Commander in American Army. Won battles at New York and Florida.
What were the three stages for the British plan for winning the was of 1812? ✔✔1) Separate
New York from the south
2) Army was going to raid coastal cities
3) Another British Force was going to New Orleans
Robert E. Lee ✔✔Commander of the confederate Army. Lost battle of Gettysburg
Abraham Lincon ✔✔16th President of the United States president during the Civil war. Wrote
Emancipation Proclamation. Gave the Gettysburg address. Shot by John Willies bowthe in a
theater
Gettysburg ✔✔Bloodiest battle of the cilil war in which the Union won. In Gettysburg PA
Jefferson Davis ✔✔A former senator from Mississippi and the secretary of war under Franklin
Pierce, was elected the first president of the confederacy.
Stonewall Jackson ✔✔Confederate general who died in battle. Was Robert E Lee's first hand
man
Appomattox Courthouse ✔✔Where the civil war ended. Its a town where Robert E. Lee
Surrendered
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