United States Review For Regents

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United States Review For Regents

• Geography Colonial Era

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Location

• The absolute location is northern western
  hemisphere
• The relative location is in between the Pacific
  Atlantic Oceans or south of Canada and north of
  Mexico

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Place

• Physical characteristics Great Plains
  (Midwest), Mississippi River, Appalachian
  Mountains Rocky Mountains
• Human Characteristics Language, religion
  culture varied due to immigration
• Most densely populated region is found along east
  coast Boston to Washington D.C.

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Movement

• Bering Strait Land Bridge
• Manifest Destiny moving from east to west
• Africans-Americans moving from south to north
• Sun Belt 1950s movement from industrial cities
  in north and Midwest to southwest and southeast

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Land Use In United States

• Coasts commercial fishing
• Midwest south farming
• Northwest forestry
• West Livestock raising
• Major cities industry
• Early port cities New York, Boston,
  Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah New Orleans

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Colonial Era

• Who came
• People from Western Europe
• Why did they come
• Religious freedom from religious persecution
• Economic
• Political

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Colonial Settlement

• New England
• Puritans and Pilgrims who did subsistent farming,
  fishing ship building
• Middle Colonies
• Diverse population (Quakers) who utilized fertile
  soil
• Southern Colonies
• Plantation owners tobacco, rice, indigo

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Africans

• Triangular Slave Trade between colonies, West
  Africa and West Indies
• Middle Passage
• Slave Rebellions (Stono Rebellion)
• Brought to work on plantations

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Causes Of American Revolution

• Salutary Neglect
• Economic
• War debt Britain had from French Indian War
• Stamp Act Townshend Acts
• Political
• Colonial legislatures felt power was threatened
  (Virginias House of Burgess)
• No representation in Parliament
• Social/Ideological
• Fears of tyrannical government
• Colonists were independent in political thought

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American Revolution

• Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable
  Acts, Lexington Concord lead to war
• War lasts from 1775 1781
• Saratoga turning point French now an ally
• Washington and French force Cornwallis to
  surrender at Yorktown

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Declaration of Independence

• July 4, 1776 written by Thomas Jefferson
• Purpose
• Explain and justify the colonies becoming
  independent from Britain
• 3 Parts
• Theory of Government
• List of grievances against King
• Formal resolution declaring independence
• Key Ideas
• People have natural rights life, liberty
  pursuit of happiness
• People should have right to abolish government if
  it fails to protect or respect its people
• Governments get power from the consent of the
  governed by social contract in which peoples
  natural rights would be protected