• Settled to by people from debtor's prsion in englan
• Hoped to find ecomomic freedom  and a better life in the New world

Roanoke Island

• Established as an economic venture
• Called the "lost colony" because all settlers vanished 

Pennsylvania

• Settled by the Quakers a religious group who wanted the freedom to practice their faith without being perscuted or imprisioned 

Great Lakes ( superior,michigan,heron,erie,ontario)

Miles Standish

• Plymouth Colony- settled by the pilgrims,separatists who left the chruch of england  to avoid religious persection
• Massachusttes bay- settled by the puritans for the same reason 

Mild Atlantic

• Natural resoureces

• rich soil
• water ways 

• Fisherman
• skilled and unskilled workers 

• longer summers
• mild,shorters winters

• Diverse

• Market towns 

• Applachian Mountains
• coastal Lowlands with rich soil
• many natural bays and harbors
• wide and deep  rivers 

• lived mainily in the south
• realied on indetered servants and or enslaved African slaves for labor
• were educated in some cases
• had a rich social life 

• relied on family members for labor
• worked on the land accourding to the reigon

• worked as craftsmen in town and on pantations
• lived in small villages and cities  

• Townsend Act
• Stamp Tax
• Sugar act and Tea act 

• to pay maitince for Britans troops
• from the french and indian war 

passed by the british parliment when king gerorge the third needed more money in/debt; colonist forced to pay a tax on every piece of paper

• also upseted the colinists; new tax laws were passed in parliament and not by colinal legislature/colonial law-making bodies
•  First Tax on the colonies

• they had a war with britan because britan wanted the missippi river valley
• Also the french lost  the war between britan and french 

passed by British Parliment to punish the colonies for the boston tea party; punishments:Boston Harbor closed

• house of British troops in America

• some coloniests defense their own land and their storng beliefs
• storng and capable leadership
•  Additional support from France

• Bill Of Rights Added
• Frederal Court System established  
• Delevolment of the white house in Washington D.C
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Articles of Conferderation

Five weaknesses

• Weak Govenerment
• No common Currency
• Only had Legislative Branch
• Congresse Could not tax or control States
• One vote per state

• Frederal Court system established
• Bill of Rights were added to the Constitution
• Devoloment of the National capital In washington
• DC:Benjamin Banker, African American astorner and surveyor, helped complete the desing of it  

• T. Jefferson bought Lousinia from FRANCE
• doubled the sized
•  

1. Jo Anderson (slave)
2. Cyrus McCormick

• Invented the Reaper
• McCormick was entrepreneur who bought reaper to market
• increased productivity of the American farmer 

• led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the "Under Ground Railroad" 

• wrote "Liberator" a newspaper
• and worked the immediate emancipation (freeing) of all slaves 

• wrote the "North Star"newspaper
• worked for the rights for African Americans and women to better live their lives 

Womens Suffrage

(voting)

• supporters of womens suffrage felt "All men and women are created equal."
• denied the right to vote
• denied educational opportunities
• denied equal opportunies in busseness
• Limited in the right to own property