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They are the people that live between North and South America. The Mayans, The Incas, and The Aztecs are examples of Mesoamericans

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Being indigenous is being native to a country, for example the Native Americans are indigenous to North America.

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A confederacy is an alliance of groups of people, an example of a confederacy was the Iroquois Confederacy which was the alliance of tribes in the New York area.

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Indians converts were put under the care of Spaniards but treated as slaves

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A cash crop is when a plantation grows a specific crop for profit.

"Tobacco was cash crop in Jamestown and made them tons of money

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Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer. He was a "consolidator" of the French colonies. He also made explorations in areas that are now New York,

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There was a problem between the colonists and the Native Americans, Governor William Berkeley passed laws that hurt small farmers and sided with the Indians. Bacon led a militia of the poor small farmers to attack the Indians

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Prince Henry was a person that encouraged people to explore. He started a school that was dedicated for geography/navigation.

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Henry Hudson was a person who wanted to discover a route to Asia. He discovered the Northwest Passage.

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The Middle Passage was the trade route that took slaves from Africa to colonies in the Americas and West Indies

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The term bread basket refers to the middle colonies. The middle colonies were known for growing a lot of crops which is why they're called the bread basket colony.

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John Winthrop was a puritan, he led Massachusetts Bay Company. He wanted the colony to be a Christian model for the world.

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It was the uprising of the indigenous Pueblo that were against the Spanish colonizers in the New Spain era. This drove the colonists away since it was the first time they sucessfully stood against the European colonies

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A triangular trade is when there is three trade routes that are connected each other.

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William Penn was a Quaker that founded Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was religious/political freedom

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Squanto helped the build relationships between Natives Americans and the Pilgrims.

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Pocahontas was a person who helped build relationships with the Powhatan Tribe

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Salutary Neglect is when a government doesn't enforce laws
For example England neglected the colonies, the colonies were left alone.

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Mercantilism was a system where England used the 13 colonies for an economic gain. The colonies made the money by trading.

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The Triangular Trade was a path of trading that was the shape of a triangle. It went from Europe to Africa to the 13 colonies.

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The Navigation Act forced the colonies to only trade with England, they weren't allowed to trade with other nations

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The Molasses Act was enforced by the British. The act taxed items like molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British colonies to the 13 colonies.

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The Quebec Act of 1774 was an act by the British Parliament starting off procedures of governance within the area of Quebec.

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Enlightenment is enlightening or being enlightened. Ideas of enlightenment took place in Europe during the 17th/18th century. Some famous enlightenment thinkers were John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Baron De Montesquieu.

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People should give up some rights to be protected by the government. An example of social contract is our classes. We the students give accept to follow the rules to not get in trouble.

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Natural Rights are rights that every human are born with. Natural rights are inclusive. Some examples of natural rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness.

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Enlightment thinker from England, he believed that everyone had natural rights, which were life, liberty, and property.

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Enlightment thinker from France
he believed that the government's power should be seperated into three different branches. (judicial, legislative, executive)

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The Great Awakening was the revival of religion in the 13 colonies during 1730-40s. Leaders of the Great Awakening were John Edwards and George Whitefield.

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It was an anti-British slogan. The colonists didn't like being taxed by British Parliament. They didn't' like being taxed because they couldn't elect representatives for the Parliament.

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The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States. It gave congress the power to make an army and make treaties with other countries.

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It created a system for organizing new land in the West.

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It created a process for accepting new states in the Union, it abolished slavery in the Northwest Territory.

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It was a rebellion started by farmers in Massachusetts. They showed the nation that the Articles of Confederation was weak.

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A book written by Thomas Paine, the book was about why the colonies should have independence from England.

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The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are important because they give you essential rights, like the right to bear arms, and having freedom of speech.

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The Federalists were written by the Federalists. They were written to encourage the ratification of the Constitution.

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Federalists were people that agree with the ratification of the Constitution. They wanted a strong federal government and a weak state government.

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Anti-Federalists were people that were against the Constitution. They wanted a weak federal government and a strong state government.

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A Bicameral Congress,

Proportional Representation in the House of Representatives. It was based on the state's population

The representation in the Senate was equal (2 per state)

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It was a meeting with 55 delegates. They were there to debate how America was going to be governed. They decided to get rid of the AoF and write the Constitution

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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois.

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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

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Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

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Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867 

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Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867 