This is unit 1 on montgomery bell academy us history exam
15259328 | Christopher Coloumbus | Found America | 15259328 | |
15259329 | Amerigo Vespucci | Figured out that America was a new continent | 15259329 | |
15261114 | Vasco Nunez de Balbo | found pacific ocean | 15261114 | |
15261115 | 1 penninsularais 2 creoles 3 mestizos 4 slaves | 4 classes of Spanish Colony Class System | 15261115 | |
15261116 | Economienda System | Rewarded conquistadores with land | 15261116 | |
15261117 | Mercantilism | states power based on how rich | 15261117 | |
15261118 | Henrey Hudson | discovered Hudson bay | 15261118 | |
15261119 | John Cabot | explored newfoundland | 15261119 | |
15261120 | Samule Champlain | founded quebec | 15261120 | |
15261121 | Robert de La Salle | became the first Spanish to ttravel the Mississippi river | 15261121 | |
15261122 | Giovanni de Verrazano | Explored the Atlantic Coast | 15261122 | |
15261123 | North West Passage | passage through america | 15261123 | |
15261124 | Roanoke | Lost Colony | 15261124 | |
15261125 | Sir Walter Raleigh | started Roanoke and Virgina | 15261125 | |
15261126 | London Company | owned by Raleigh started Roanoke and Jamestown | 15261126 | |
15261127 | Jamestown | Founded by London Company, 1st succesful colony in America. | 15261127 | |
15261128 | Captain John Smith | Governor of Jamestown, injured in gunpowder blast. | 15261128 | |
15261129 | indentured servant | slave for a few years to pay for passage to America | 15261129 | |
15261130 | slavery | purchasing and owning a person | 15261130 | |
15261131 | House of Burgesses | First System of self goverment in America | 15261131 | |
15261132 | Bacon's Rebellion | A rebellion of indentured slaves | 15261132 | |
15261133 | George Calvert, Lord Baltimore | given 10 million acres and he made Maryland | 15261133 | |
15264552 | Toleration Act of 1649 | first religious freedom act in America | 15264552 | |
15264553 | James Oglethorp | propreitor of Georgia | 15264553 | |
15264554 | Separitists | Quakers who became the pilgrims | 15264554 | |
15264555 | Plymouth Colony | Colony that wouldn't have made it if it hadn't been for Squanto of the Pawtuxet Indians | 15264555 | |
15264556 | William Bradford | governor of New England | 15264556 | |
15264557 | Mayflower Compact | Made first self governed colony in America | 15264557 | |
15264558 | Puritan | Belived the Church wasn't Pure | 15264558 | |
15264559 | congregational church | minister elected by body of chruch goers | 15264559 | |
15264560 | common wealth | self governing political unit | 15264560 | |
15264561 | John Wheelwright | admired by Anne Hutchinson expelled like Thomas Hooker | 15264561 | |
15264562 | Thomas Hooker | expelled from Puritans like John Wheelwright | 15264562 | |
15264563 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | first written constitution | 15264563 | |
15264564 | Roger Williams | expelled for raising embarrising topics like Wheelright and Hooker | 15264564 | |
15264565 | Anne Hutchinson | Puritan who wanted to be minister but religion kept her from | 15264565 | |
15264566 | New Netherland | Captured by the Duke of York and became New York | 15264566 | |
15264567 | Patroon | Large land owner | 15264567 | |
15264568 | Quaker | Religious Radical | 15264568 | |
15264569 | William Penn | Quaker who started Pennsylvania | 15264569 | |
15264570 | Philidelphia | city of brotherly love capital of Pennsylvania | 15264570 | |
15264571 | Mason Dixon Line | Border between Maryland and Pennsylvania | 15264571 | |
15264572 | Gentry | Upper Class | 15264572 | |
15264573 | Charter Colony | self ruling colony elected all officals | 15264573 | |
15264574 | Proprietary colony | owned by one person governor chosen by propreitor everything else by colonist | 15264574 | |
15264575 | Royal Colony | Ruled by king king chooses governor everyone else elected by colonists | 15264575 | |
15264576 | Great Awakining | religious revival | 15264576 | |
15264577 | Jonathen Edwards | Americas greatest colonial christian theoligist | 15264577 | |
15264578 | enlightenment | intrest in science | 15264578 | |
15264579 | John Locke | wrote an essay concerning human understanding and taught natural rights | 15264579 | |
15264580 | Albany Plan | Government plan proposed by Ben Franklin form council that can levy taxes regulate trade and raise army | 15264580 | |
15264581 | Salutary Neglect | non interferince | 15264581 | |
15264582 | Trade and Navigation Acts | Trade Act said that everything exported had to be done so in a British boat and enumerated commodities can only be sent to England | 15264582 | |
15264583 | Enumerated Commodities | listed by Parliment | 15264583 | |
15264584 | Treaty of Paris | Ended French and indian war, gave Britan Canada and everything east of Mississippi | 15264584 | |
15264585 | George Grennville | British minister of Finance | 15264585 | |
15264586 | Townshend Act | Placed tax on glass paper and paint | 15264586 | |
15264587 | Boycott | Dont buy | 15264587 | |
15264588 | Proclimation of 1763 | couldn't settle past appalachins | 15264588 | |
15264589 | stamp act | 1st direct tax | 15264589 | |
15372655 | Intolerable Acts | Closed Boston Port Quartering Act British officials tried in England | 15372655 | |
15372656 | Boston Massacre | Redcoats killed 5 taunters | 15372656 | |
15372657 | Boston Tea Party | some patriots dressed up as indians threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor | 15372657 | |
15372658 | Lexington and Concord | 1st battles in the revoloutinary war | 15372658 | |
15372659 | Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Resistance Groups | 15372659 | |
15372660 | Thomas Jefferson | Wrote Decleration of independence | 15372660 | |
15372661 | William Howe | Lost at Fort Ticonderoga | 15372661 | |
15372662 | George Washington | Commander in Chief of American Army | 15372662 | |
15372663 | Charles Cornwallis | British General, commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence | 15372663 | |
15372664 | Thomas Gage | British General, British general who controlled Boston following the Boston Tea Party. | 15372664 | |
15372665 | Trenton | First win for the colonial army, On Christmas night, 1776, Washington led 2,400 men across the Delaware River to attack the drunken Hessians who were sleeping. The Americans killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and 6 Hessian cannons. | 15372665 | |
15372666 | NW Ordinance of 1787 | Designated area N of the Ohio RIver as the NW territory and provided for its latter division into states, forbade slavery | 15372666 | |
15375419 | Virginia Plan | Plan that representation based on the population of a state, proposed by James Madison | 15375419 | |
15375420 | James Madison | Delegate from Virginia proposed the Virginia plan, 4th President of the United States member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836) | 15375420 | |
15375421 | Federalists | Political Party that supported the constitution, and hence, stronger central power. | 15375421 | |
15375422 | Whiskey Rebellion | Rebellion over tax on Whiskey, showed the new governments power. | 15375422 | |
15375423 | XYZ affair | We came to France and Talleyrand sent 3 ministers who told us to pay a bribe, but we said no. | 15375423 | |
15375424 | John Jay | First Chief Justice of Supreme court | 15375424 | |
15375425 | Sedition Act | Ban on speaking lies or maliciously about the Federal Govenment. | 15375425 | |
15375426 | Alien Act | All imigrants have to register with the federal government | 15375426 | |
15375427 | Naturialization Act | Changed time you have to live here from 5 years to 14 years | 15375427 | |
15375428 | Talleyrand | French minister of foreign affairs | 15375428 | |
15375429 | Nullification | States right to declare a law unconstitutional and not follow it. | 15375429 | |
15375430 | Enumerated Powers | listed | 15375430 | |
15375431 | Implied Powers | not listed | 15375431 | |
15375432 | George Washington and 1st Cabinet Members | Made out of department heads, created by president. | 15375432 | |
15375433 | Bill of Rights | A statement of fundamental rights and privileges. | 15375433 | |
15375434 | Executive Department | The federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States | 15375434 | |
15375435 | Assumption Bill | Pay back all bonds in full, promised to move the nations capital being moved to the south also | 15375435 | |
15673961 | Funding bill | repay all bonds in full | 15673961 | |
15673962 | Excise Tax | a tax payed by the manufacturer | 15673962 | |
15673963 | Proclamation of Neutrality | we stay neutal in French Revoloution | 15673963 | |
15673964 | Washington's Farewell Adress | last speech waring to stay away from parties and English Affairs | 15673964 | |
15673965 | quorum | majority of members present | 15673965 | |
15673966 | Adams | XYZ Affair, American Revolutionary leader and patriot, 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826) | 15673966 | |
15673967 | Burr | Federalist VP under Madison | 15673967 | |
15673968 | Marbury vs. Madison | the Supreme Court has the ultimate power of Judicial review as demonstrated by the Constitution. The main questions posed- did marbury have the right, is there a remedy, and is the writ of mandamus a correct remedy. He had the right, there is a remedy, but it wasn't within the jurisdiction of the supreme court to issue the writ of mandamus. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department [the judicial branch] to say what the law is | 15673968 | |
15673969 | Judicial Review | the power for the supreme court to review any law and name it constitutional or unconstitutioinal | 15673969 | |
15673970 | John Marshall | supreme justice, United States jurist as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835) | 15673970 | |
15673971 | The Louisiana Purchase | bought louisiana territory from France for 15 million dollars | 15673971 | |
15673972 | Napoleon | Emperor of france from 1802 - 1815. | 15673972 | |
15673973 | Lewis and Clark | Two explorers sent by the president to explore the Louisiana Purchase | 15673973 | |
15673974 | Burr Conspiracies | After the duel, Burr fled New York and joined a group of mercenaries in the southern Louisiana territory region. The U.S. arrested them as they moved towards Mexico. Burr claimed that they had intended to attack Mexico, but the U.S. believed that they were actually trying to get Mexican aid to start a secession movement in the territories. Burr was tried for treason, and although Jefferson advocated Burr's punishment, the Supreme Court acquitted Burr. | 15673974 | |
15673975 | Tripoli | Pirate country that demanded a tribute or would take over the ship | 15673975 | |
15673976 | Impressment | Take people off the ships and force them into the navy | 15673976 | |
15673977 | Orders in Council | British followed the Essex decision in 1806, the new policy that declared broken voyages illegal, with first of several trade regulations known as Orders in Council which established a blockade of part of the continent of Europe. It allowed American vessels to trade with French possessions as long as they carried their cargoes to Britain rather than to a continental port controlled by France. | 15673977 | |
15673978 | The Embargo Act | Cut of trade with Britan and France | 15673978 | |
15673979 | The War Hawks | Young representatives who wanted war with Britan | 15673979 | |
15673980 | Chesapeake and Leopard | Leopard stopped to impress, when we said no they fired 3 broad sides at us. Killed three and injured eighteen. | 15673980 | |
15673981 | Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845) | 15673981 | |
15673982 | Midnight Appointees | judge appointed to the supreme court by president adams late on the last day of his administration | 15673982 | |
15673983 | Battle of New Orleans | Great Battle, but proved useless because a treaty had already been signed. | 15673983 | |
15674969 | Treaty of Ghent | ended the war of 1812 | 15674969 | |
15674970 | L'Ouverture | Black Napoleon of Haiti | 15674970 | |
15674971 | Fort McHenrey | Star Spangled Banner Subject | 15674971 | |
15674972 | Non-intercourse | less severe than embargo act it allowed americans to carry on trade with all nations except Britian and france | 15674972 | |
15674973 | St. Domingue | Loss of it made the french give up on their conquest of the americas | 15674973 | |
15674974 | American System | a plan presented to Congress by President Madison for making the United States economically self-sufficient establish a protective tariff , establish a national bank, and improve the country's transporation system | 15674974 | |
15674975 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers | 15674975 | |
15674976 | Quadruple Alliance | Alliance to squelch democracy, alliance between prussia austria russia britian | 15674976 | |
15679647 | Rush Bagot Treaty | Take all but a few warships from the great lakes | 15679647 | |
15679648 | Adams Onis Treaty | Spain ceded Flordia and Pacific Northwest. | 15679648 | |
15679649 | Clermont | On its first run, it carried passengers from New York City to Albany and back. The 300-mile trip took just 62 hours- a record at the time. | 15679649 | |
15679650 | Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo | 15679650 | |
15679651 | Tariff of 1816 | A protective tariff designed to help American industries | 15679651 | |
15679652 | Pittsburgh | The capital of steel | 15679652 | |
15679653 | Samuel Slater | Brought textile to the americas | 15679653 | |
15679654 | Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin | 15679654 | |
15679655 | Missouri Compromise | Set up Maine and Missouri as respective free and slave states, instituted 36 30 as the line | 15679655 | |
15679656 | John Quincy Adams | 6th U.S. President. 1825-1829. Democratic-Republican | 15679656 | |
15679657 | John Calhoun | First vice president during Jackson's presidency, Staunchly pro-slavery vice-president, engineering the Compromise of 1850 and helping further split the nations | 15679657 | |
15679658 | black belt | good soil near the mississippi | 15679658 | |
15679659 | corrupt bargain | clay helped john quincy adams win the presidental election | 15679659 | |
15679660 | textile | woven frabic | 15679660 | |
15679661 | spoils system | gives jobs to party loyalists | 15679661 | |
15679662 | pocket veto | indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it | 15679662 | |
15679663 | Martin Van Buren | hand chosen successor of Andrew Jackson | 15679663 |