Where We Are In American History

The following will provide you with a review of our progress to date. This material is all part of the first test, which will be sometime in the next two weeks.











I. Beginnings











Jamestown Settlement





Growth of Tobacco Trade





House of Burgesses

The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony

Puritan Life

Dissent in Massachusetts Bay

II. Expansion

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

III. Growing Conflict with Britain

Tea Act

Stamp Act

Townshend Act

IV. Revolutionary War

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

Declaration of Independence

Continental Congress

Loyalists

Patriots

Lexington

Concord

Bunker Hill

Valley Forge

Saratoga

French Support

Yorktown

Treaty of Paris

V. Principles of American Democracy

Check your notes considering the following:

Republican Democracy

British Parliamentary Democracy