EARLY APUSH FINAL
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| 545778421 | Conquistadores | Spanish conquerors | |
| 545778422 | Cortez | conqueror of the Aztecs | |
| 545778423 | Pizarro | conquered the Inca Empire | |
| 545778424 | Aztec | Mexican Indians, step pyramids and sacrifices | |
| 545778425 | Inca | Peru Indians, elaborate network of roads linking empire | |
| 545778426 | Indentured Servants | english farmers exchanged labor for passage to American colonies | |
| 545778427 | New England colonies | religious, healthier climate than south, families, didn't rely on cash crops | |
| 545778428 | Middle Passage | brought slaves from Africa to America | |
| 545778429 | Dutch | controlled least amount of North American land | |
| 545778430 | 3Gs | GOD, GLORY, GOLD | |
| 545778431 | Triangular Trade | between Europe, Africa, and Americas | |
| 545778432 | European powers | Spain, France, and England | |
| 545778433 | Elizabeth 1 | was queen of England Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen | |
| 545778434 | Sir Walter Raleigh | affair with queen, colonized Roanoke, the failed colony | |
| 545778435 | Roanoke and Croatoan | failed colony maybe fled to croatoan where Indians were | |
| 545778436 | Puritans | Left from England for religious freedom | |
| 545778437 | Pilgrims | pruitains progressive ideas, ship almost broke during voage, blown off course | |
| 545778438 | john smith | important leader in the colony of Jamestown "no work = no food" | |
| 545778439 | William Bradford | William Bradford was a leader of settlers at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts | |
| 545778440 | Jamestown | first permanent English colony in the Americas | |
| 545778441 | Mayflower Compact | document giving pilgrims the right to settle in plymouth | |
| 545778442 | Massachusetts Bay Company | john winthrop "city upon a hill" New England- less disease, ship builders and fishers- large cities | |
| 545778443 | tobacco | john rolfe- cash crop married Pocahontas | |
| 545778444 | Anne Hutchinson | saw revelations from God, got kicked out, many were jealous | |
| 545778445 | John Winthrop | city on a hill, governor of Massachusetts, wanted a perfect city | |
| 545778446 | Salem Witch Trials | hung accused witches-anyone who acted different | |
| 545778447 | Roger Williams | Rhode Island speration of Church and state | |
| 545778448 | Slave Trade | shipped from Africa | |
| 545778449 | Pequot War | Pequot indians vs massachsett settlers-almost wiped out the whole tribe | |
| 545778450 | King Philip's War | Metacoms vs. Puritans- most costly war % wise | |
| 545778451 | French-Indian War | seven-years war; british v. French and Indains; | |
| 545778452 | Mercantilism | -increase wealth as a nation -wealth is finite -need a strong king -nation as a whole, not individuals | |
| 545778453 | Navigation Acts | only allowed colonies to trade with England | |
| 545778454 | Salutary Neglect | if colonies are left alone they will prosper; leds to -history of self governance -feelings that living in Merica is harder than Britain -too much freedom, hard to take away | |
| 545778455 | Great Awakening | Religious movement | |
| 545778456 | stamp act of 1765 | tax on printed items | |
| 545778457 | townshend acts | -tax on everyday items, tea, lead, and paper -writ of assistance-could your search your house with out a reason -money to pay for soliders | |
| 545778458 | Intolerable acts | caused the creation of the colonial congress -closed port of Boston -under control of British gov't -officers weren't tried in Massachusetts -quater soliders | |
| 545778459 | Sons of Liberty | Boston tea party; american patriots | |
| 545778460 | committees of correspondence | shadow goverment | |
| 545778461 | First Contental Congress | created to draft a response to the crown | |
| 545778462 | Declatory Acts | parliment said it had power over the colonies | |
| 545778463 | Declaration of Rights and Grievances | taxes imposed with out colony consent was unconstitutional | |
| 545778464 | Common Sense | -Thomas Paine; pointed out the wrongs of Britain; examples why merica should be independent | |
| 545778465 | Lexington and Concord | first fight of Revolution; rebels push redcoats back at concord | |
| 545778466 | Bunker Hill | colonists had less damages; redcoats realized this would be harder than expected | |
| 545778467 | Hessians | german soliders hired by britain | |
| 545778468 | Valley forge | a hard winter | |
| 545778469 | Yorktown | General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis's British army. Cornwallis surrendered ensuring independence. | |
| 545778470 | Treaty of Paris | Ended Revolutionary War | |
| 545778471 | Samuel Adams | Sons of liberty | |
| 545778472 | John Adams | 2nd President 1st v.p. founding father | |
| 545778473 | thomas jefferson | 3rd president, wrote declaration of independence | |
| 545778474 | Ben Franklin | Founding Father | |
| 545778475 | whiskey rebellion | a tax was placed on whiskey; washington crushed it | |
| 545778476 | federalists | Adams, Hamilton; stronger central government | |
| 545778477 | anti federalist | jefferson; more limited government | |
| 545778478 | Tecumseh | Native American leader of the Shawnee which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. | |
| 545778479 | French revolution impact | first international affair; should we help them | |
| 545778480 | Alexis de Toqueville | Democracy in America, Tocqueville wrote of the New World and its burgeoning democratic order | |
| 545778481 | Virginia and Kentucky resolutions | response to A and S acts and stated they wouldn't follow them | |
| 545778482 | Arron Burr | 3rd v.p; killed Hamiliton in a duel | |
| 545778483 | John Marshal | judicial branch; increased power | |
| 545778484 | Nullification | states right to nullify a law | |
| 545778485 | jay's treaty | withdrew british units from u.s. | |
| 545778486 | revolution of 1800 | transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans in a peaceful manner | |
| 545778487 | Barbary War | medittarain pirates | |
| 545778488 | Treaty of Ghent | ended war of 1812 | |
| 545778489 | Battle of New Orleans | final major battle of the War of 1812, battle in 1815 between american and british troops for control of New Orleans, ending in an american victory | |
| 545778490 | Henry Clay | secretary of state in the corrupt bargain with Adams; missouri compromise | |
| 545778491 | daniel webster | senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War;whig | |
| 545778492 | whigs | Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency and favored a program of modernization; harrison and taylor were presidents | |
| 545778493 | joseph smith | religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844) | |
| 545778494 | william lloyd garrison | United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879) | |
| 545778495 | Sojourer Truth | Dedicated her life to the movements for abolition and for women's rights; born Isabella Baumfree. | |
| 545778496 | Dred Scott v. Sandford | 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that livig in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitional | |
| 545778497 | Compromise of 1850 | Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War | |
| 545778498 | Commodore Perry | United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812 | |
| 545778499 | Gadsden Purchase | purchase of land from mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-mexico boundary | |
| 545778500 | Kansas Nebraska Act | This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare. | |
| 545778501 | Preston Brooks | Was a Congressman from South Carolina, notorious for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate. | |
| 545778502 | Know-Nothing party | Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party. | |
| 545778503 | Republican Party | One of the two major American political parties. It emerged in the 1850s as an antislavery party and consisted of former northern Whigs and antislavery Democrats. | |
| 545778504 | Lincoln-Douglass Debates | Seven debates between Lincoln and Douglass before election of 1860 - mostly over issues of slavery |
