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Famous
Dates
FamousDocuments
Famous
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Key Concepts
Geography
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The Main Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The King of England during the American Revolution
Who is George III?
An inventor, an author of the Declaration of Independence,
and American minister to France
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts who was against
British taxation
Who is Samuel Adams?
Writer of Common Sense that supported American
independence from Great Britain
Who is Thomas Paine?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed and the United States became an
independent country
What is 1776?
The year the U. S. Constitution was written
What is 1787?
The year the first successful British colony in North America
was established
What is 1607?
The years the American Civil War was fought
What is 1861-1865?
The year the United States purchased Louisiana from France
What is 1803?
The document that declared the United States was an independent nation
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The agreement made by the Pilgrims in 1620 for self-
government in the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The first constitution of the United States of America
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The document signed by King John in 1215 which granted
Englishmen basic human rights
What is the Magna Carta?
The document passed by Parliament in 1689 that
guaranteed Englishmen certain individual rights
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The conflict that removed the French threat to the American
colonies in the 18th century
What is the French and Indian War?
The battle fought in 1775 that began the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
The last major battle of the American Revolution won by the
United States in 1781
What is Yorktown?
The document in which Great Britain recognized the
independence of the United States
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The battle won by the United States in 1777 that was the
turning point of the American Revolution
What is Saratoga?
Being sovereign and free from foreign control by another nation
What is independence?
The institution in society that rules on behalf of the people, makes
laws, and taxes the people
What is government?
A time of armed rebellion or a period of very great change in
history
What is revolution?
The settlement by a European country of land in the Americas,
Asia, or Africa
What is colonization?
The economic system where a colony provided raw materials to
the mother country and served as a market for its finished goods
What is mercantilism?
The buying and selling of humans for forced labor
What is slave trade?
The right to practice one’s religious beliefs without
interference from the government
What is religious freedom?
The factors related to people like culture, government, language, religion, economy, education,
agriculture and industry
What are human geographic features?
The natural features like landforms, water bodies, topography, soil, atmosphere, climate, plants,
animals, and natural resources
What are physical geographic features?
The economic system of a large farm growing cash crops and
farmed with slave labor
What is the plantation system?
