US History 1 Clep

Virginia Dare - Answer-First English Child to be born in the New World 1492 - Answer-The year the Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus, who sailed with the support of the Spanish crown, arrived in the Americas. separatists - Answer-Dissenters from the Church of England Mayflower Compact Agreement - Answer-Pledge by pilgrims to obey their own created laws Ponce De Leon - Answer-Spanish explorer that "Discovered" Florida London Company - Answer-given the right to settle Cape Fear, North Carolina to Long Island Mayflower - Answer-Ship with 101 pilgrims sailed to America Puritans - Answer-dissenters who wanted to purify the church of England Massachusetts Bay Company - Answer-Puritan Colony Thomas Hooker - Answer-Cleregyman- Settled Hartford, CT New Amsterdam is now Known As - Answer-New York City Quaker - Answer-Religious society of Friends Roger Williams - Answer-Founded Rhode Island Henry Hudson's Task - Answer-Find a Shorter route to East India William Penn - Answer-Who settled Delaware? Another Name for Philadelphia - Answer-City of Brotherly Love George Calvert - Answer-Secured Maryland's Charter Treaty of Paris - Answer-Ended the Revolutionary War Stamp Act - Answer-Required all legal documents, pamphlets, playing cards, contracts, newspapers, etc. to carry a tax stamp James Oglethorpe - Answer-Settled Savannah with Debtors Intolerable Acts - Answer-Coercive Acts- Punitive laws put on the colonies by England At the Birth of the Nation, most People held what occupation? - Answer-Farmers Martin Van Buren - Answer-Whig Party President, severe economic depression, 7th president Thomas Jefferson - Answer-A chief architect of Democracy, main author of the Declaration of Independence, Third President- Louisiana Purchase, Democratic- Republican- Anti-Federalist George Washington - Answer-General of the Colonial Army, 1st president of the United States James Monroe - Answer-Era of Good Feeling, 5th president- expanded U.S., Monroe Doctrine, Missouri Compromise, Democratic-republican Colonist - Answer-People who settled in America before the revolution E Pluribus Unum - Answer-Out of many, one Benjamin Franklin - Answer-Who first attempted to unite the colonies? 2 Party System today - Answer-Democrat and Rebublican Immigrants - Answer-People who settled in America after the Revolution Washington Irving - Answer-Author- Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleep Hollow 13th Amendment - Answer-Officially Ended Slavery in the United States, Andrew Johnson President 15th Amendment - Answer-Guaranteed Citizens the Right to Vote Albany Plan of Union - Answer-A plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin Which would unify the colonies though they would remain under British Rule Anne Hutchinson - Answer-Founder of Portsmouth Rhode Island after her religious persecution forced her to leave. 14th Amendment - Answer-Ensured due process and equal protection under the law, defined citizenship and declared that the US government would not pay compensation for freed slaves Abolitionists - Answer-People who were critical of slaver and were in favor of abolishing it.