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8121237048The French and Indian War1754-1763 War between French and British in American colonies part of 7 years0
8121237049The Proclamation of 1763Line drawn by British Parliament, colonists not allowed to settle past Appalachian mountains1
8121237050Stamp Act1765 direct tax on a stamp that must be put on paper, office documents, etc.2
8121237051The Coercive Acts1774 intolerable acts3
8121237052Common Sense1776 pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to get people to want independence4
8121237053The Declaration Of Independence1776 document written by colonist elites to British King and Parliament stating independence and what all was wrong with British rule and the King5
8121237054Battle of SaratogaHead to head battle between the British and Americans in country side, Americans win by a lot and show they have a chance6
8121237055French American AllianceFormed after battle of Saratoga when Americans proved to French they can win and French are allies because they want to damage an age old enemy7
8121237056Treaty of Paris1783 ended the American Revolutionary War Granted the land British gave Indians as American land now American colonies recognized as their own independent country8
8121237057Articles of confederationFirst form of government A lot of weaknesses No strong central government Strong state governments Causes economical problems and failure9
8121237058The Northwest Ordinance of 1787Land in Northwest is divided into 5 states (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana) they are all seen as equal to the 13 original states Reach a certain pop you can apply for statehood and be part of congress and slavery was outlawed10
8121237059Shay's Rebellion1786 farmers debt rebellion agriculture depression, economical failure and 2 out of 3 were being sued11
8121237060The ConstitutionNew format of government focuses more on a central national power and less on states 3 branch government that limit each other12
8121237061FederalismOne central power over all13
8121237062The Great CompromiseNew Jersey and Virginia plans together and create the senate and House of Representatives senate equal vote house of rep by population14
8121237063The Three-Fifths compromiseSlaves count as population for vote in congress 3 slaves for every 5 white were counted15
8121237064The Federalists papersEssays written by Federalists to get people to ratify the constitution plubis16
8121237065FederalistsSupported the ratification of the constitution one central strong government17
8121237066Anti federalistsAgainst ratification of the constitution18
8121237067The Bill of rightsFirst ten amendments of the constitution19
8121237068George Washington's presidency1st president formed the cabinets 2nd term strictly followed constitution left office to tell everyone they needed to be unified established framework of Supreme Court and how they will be decided judiciary20
8121237069HamiltonTackle debt- grant money back to people, national bank create national government, manufacturing establish tax revenue21
8121237070JeffersonWanted state governments against Hamilton 3rd president vice under John Adams voting process not fix yet and he got 2nd place22
8121237071Washington's farewell addressUnity and against foreign policies23
8121237072XYZ Affair3 agents from France try to bribe Americans who came as ambassadors to see the rulers of France common in Europe but Americans took offense and John Adams published what happened for all Americans to see decreasing support of republicans because they are Franco files24
8121237073Alien and Sedition ActsSedition- speaking false against congress or president Alien- allow president to prison or deport suspicious foreign during war Cut of increase of republicans25
8121237074Kentucky and Virginia ResolutionsIdea of nullification Legislatures that constitution was written by sovereign states so they could revoke the unconstitutional laws26
8121237075Enslaved Africans / Free Africans(Atlantic Slave Trade)African peoples have been subjected to many different types of slavery both within Africa and externally. Slavery is an economic system, which relies on the free labor of enslaved people. This may be for a fixed period of time, or, as in the case of the transatlantic slave trade(the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas), for life.27
8121237076Virginia House of BurgessesThe first elected assembly in the New World, established in 161928
8121237077North CarolinaIn the 1600s permanent settlers from Virginia began to move to North Carolina, and it eventually became part of a British colony known as "Carolina."29
8121237078New England ColoniesThe FOUNDERS of the New England colonies had an entirely different mission from the Jamestown settlers. Although economic prosperity was still a goal of the New England settlers, their true goal was spiritual. Fed up with the ceremonial Church of England, Pilgrims and Puritans sought to recreate society in the manner they believed God truly intended it to be designed.30
8121237079Puritans/PilgrimsProtestants who hoped to reform the Church of England31
8121237080Mayflower Compact1620. First Social Contract provided a basis for government at Plymouth32
8121237081John WinthropPuritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City Upon a Hill"33
8121237082Anne HutchinsonWoman who was banished from Massachusetts colony for criticizing Puritan ministers34
8121237083Pequot WarFought by the ____________people against a coalition of English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (including the Narragansett and Mohegan) that eliminated the ______________ as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England. It was an especially brutal war and the first sustained conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America.35
8121237084Middle ColoniesDiversity! The MIDDLE COLONIES of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. European ethnic groups as manifold as English, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scots-Irish and French lived in closer proximity than in any location on continental Europe. The middle colonies contained Native American tribes of Algonkian and Iroquois language groups as well as a sizable percentage of African slaves during the early years. Unlike solidly Puritan New England, the middle colonies presented an assortment of religions. The presence of Quakers, MENNONITES, LUTHERANS, DUTCH CALVINISTS, and PRESBYTERIANS made the dominance of one faith next to impossible.36
8121237085New AmsterdamOriginal Dutch settlement in New Netherlands; later became New York City. Known for trade.37
8121237086Southern ColoniesVirginia, the First Southern Colony in the South was turning to cash crops. Geography and motive rendered the development of these colonies distinct from those that lay to the North. Immediately to Virginia's north was MARYLAND. Begun as a Catholic experiment, the colony's economy would soon come to mirror that of Virginia, as tobacco became the most important crop. To the south lay the Carolinas, created after the English Civil War had been concluded. In the Deep South was GEORGIA, the last of the original thirteen colonies. Challenges from Spain and France led the king to desire a buffer zone between the cash crops of the Carolinas and foreign enemies. Georgia, a colony of debtors, would fulfill that need.38
8121237087Maryland Act Concerning ReligionWas a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. Passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body of an organized colonial government to guarantee any degree of religious liberty. Specifically, the bill, now usually referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians.39
8121237088British West IndiesTo start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. However, as British settlements in the Caribbean and North America grew, often through wars with European countries such as Holland, Spain and France, British slave traders increasingly supplied British colonies40
8121237089Metacom's War / King Phillip's War1637 Conflict between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with American Indian allies (the Narragansett, and Mohegan Indians), against the Pequot Indians. This war saw the elimination of the Pequot in New England, and is exemplary of the Puritan use of genocide towards Native Americans.41
8121237090Bacon's Rebellion1676; VA frontiersmen seeking land clashed with Native Americans; Frontiersmen demanded help from the government; Jamestown refused aid, fearing Native American War; Bacon and his men lived on frontier; Bacon & men stormed Jamestown; Bacon died of fever; Rebellion collapsed; Colonial rebellion against government authority; Clash between east/west, rich/poor; Tidewater's discrimination against frontiersmen; Revision of indentured servant system, greater reliance on slave labor42
8121237091William PennThe founder of Pennsylvania. The British government repaid a debt to Penn by giving him title to what is now Pennsylvania, where he established a colony with broad religious toleration. Many Quakers, who were persecuted in England, settled in Pennsylvania. _________ was known for his friendly relations with the Native American tribes in his colony.43
8121237092Pueblo RevoltThe most successful Indian revolt against the Europeans: Pueblo Indians in 1680, led by Pope, attacked Spanish settlers (Onante and his aggressive conlonisation) and killed some 400; maintained independence in New Mexico until ten years later. When the Spanish returned and reconquered the Indians.44
8121237093SouthwestNative Americans lived in villages with farming as their source of food, included Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni45
8121237094Navigation ActsPassed under the mercantilist system, the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy. The acts restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships, required certain colonial goods to pass through England before export, provided subsidies for the production of certain raw goods in the colonies, and banned colonial competition in large-scale manufacturing.46
8121237095Dominion of New England1686-The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). Ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros.47
8121237096New England ConfederationNew England colonists formed the New England Confederation in 1643 as a defense against local Native American tribes and encroaching Dutch. The colonists formed the alliance without the English crown's authorization.48
8121237097Glorious RebellionThe Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 replaced the reigning king, James II, with the joint monarchy of his protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. It was the keystone of the Whig (those opposed to a Catholic succession) history of Britain.49
8121237098Leisler's RebellionThe uprising took place in the aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Boston revolt in the Dominion of New England, which had included New York. The rebellion reflected colonial resentment against the policies of deposed King James II.50
8121237099First Great AwakeningThe Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies, in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.51
8121237100Salem Witch TrialsBegan during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. A wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts.52
8121237101Royal African Company MonopolyKing James I had granted a patent to a company that wanted to trade for gold and precious woods in Africa. Other groups also received rights to trade in Africa, but never dealt with slaves in any major way. English involvement in the slave trade would intensify after 1663, when a new patent was issued to the Company of Royal Adventurers. England had realized the money to be made trading slaves to the West Indies and Virginia.53
8121237102European EnlightenmentThe AGE OF REASON, as it was called, was spreading rapidly across Europe. In the late 17th century, scientists like ISAAC NEWTON and writers like JOHN LOCKE were challenging the old order. Newton's laws of gravity and motion described the world in terms of natural laws beyond any spiritual force. In the wake of political turmoil in England, Locke asserted the right of a people to change a government that did not protect natural rights of life, liberty and property.54
8121237103Protestant EvangelicalismIts origins are usually traced back to English Methodism, the Moravian Church , and German Lutheran Pietism. While all these phenomena contributed greatly, John Wesley and other early Methodists were at the root of sparking this new movement during the First Great Awakening. The movement gained great momentum during the 18th and 19th centuries with the Great Awakenings in the United Kingdom and North America.55
8121237104MercantilismEconomic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. It was the economic counterpart of political absolutism.56
8121237105Molasses ActThe Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II. c. 13), which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies57
8121237106John Peter ZengerThe trial of JOHN PETER ZENGER, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists. In 1733, it was libel when you published information that was opposed to the government. Truth or falsity were irrelevant. He never denied printing the pieces. The judge therefore felt that the verdict was never in question. But was found innocent, Although true freedom of the press was not known until the passage of the FIRST AMENDMENT, newspaper publishers felt freer to print their honest views58
8121237107Stono RebellionConspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed.59
8121237108Iron ActThe Iron Act of 1750 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was designed to encourage the American manufacture of more pig iron and iron bars by the American colonists in the 13 Colonies to be sent to England, tax free. But the Act of 1750 also prohibited the colonies from producing finished iron goods.60
8121237109How did early Americans reach North and South America?They crossed a land bridge from Asia61
8121237110When was the land bridge formed? What was it made of?During the ice age, ice/land62
8121237111What were the Indians doing when they crossed the land bridge?Following food or herds63
8121237112What were the most complex Indian communities?Mayan, Inca and Aztecs64
8121237113What did the cultivation of maize do?Transform nomadic hunter-gather societies into settled farming communities65
8121237114What kinds of items did Europeans desire from Persia and China?Silk, Spices, Oils/Perfumes66
8121237115What were the Spanish 3 motives for exploration?1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory67
8121237116Which direction did Portugal head to reach Asia and India?South along the West coast of Africa.68
8121237117Who married to make Spain whole?Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille69
8121237118Where did Columbus land?Hispainola70
8121237119Columbus died thinking what?That he had found a trade route to Asia and that he had landed on the outskirts of India71
8121237120When Spain and Portugal went to the pope to see how to divide the world, the pope made what?The Treaty of Tordesillas72
8121237121What did the Treaty of Tordesillas say?Divided the trade routes to Asia: Spain gets the route across the Atlantic and Portugal gets the route around Africa. Also, Spain got a lot of land in the New World and Portugal got present-day Brazil.73
8121237122Who came to the New World once it was discovered?Spanish conquistadors74
8121237123Who conquered the Aztecs? Who conquered the Incas?Cortes-Aztecs Pizzaro- Incas75
8121237124What are the 2 things the Spanish give the Indians in exchange for their work (in the Encomienda System)1. Provide food, shelter, and good treatment to the Indians 2. Convert them to Christians76
8121237125What was the Encomienda System basically?Slavery77
8121237126Who worked for Indian's rights?Bartolome de las Casas78
8121237127What happened when the Spanish ran out of Indians to do work?They went and got Africans79
8121237128Who was the explorer sent by England to the New World? Where did he explore?John Cabot- coastline of North America80
8121237129Who was an explorer sent by Spain to the New World? (not Columbus) Where did he explore?Vasco Nunez de Balboa- Pacific Ocean81
8121237130What is Ferdinand Magellan credited with?The 1st circumnavigation of the earth82
8121237131When the Spanish moved north, what did they establish? Where?A fort (outpost) in St. Augustine, Fl83
8121237132What is the Biological (Columbian) Exchange?Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus.84
8121237133What 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe?1. Corn 2. Beans 3. Potatoes85
8121237134What was the "big" animal brought to the Americas that changed Indian life?Horses86
8121237135What diseases were from the Old World and went to the New World?Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza87
8121237136What disease did the Indians give Europeans?Syphillis88
8121237137Columbian ExchangeAn exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.89
8121237138EncomiendaA grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it90
8121237139Atlantic slave tradeLasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. 98% of Africans were sent to the Caribbean, South and Central America.91
8121237140Bartolome de las CasasFirst bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor; however his suggestion to replace Natives with Africans was won he would regret.92
8121237141MaizeAn early form of corn grown by Native Americans93
8121237142AnasaziA Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings94
8121237143IroquoisA later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests95
8121237144CherokeeAre a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.96
8121237145InuitA member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia)97
8121237146MayaMesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar.98
8121237147Aztec(1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. Practiced human sacrifices and those sacrificed were captured warriors from other tribes and those who volunteered for the honor.99
8121237148IncaTheir empire stretched from what is today Ecuador to central Chili in the Andes Mountain region of South America. Called the Children of the Sun.100
8121237149TenochtitlanCapital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.101
8121237150Aztec calendar365 days, divided into 18 months each with 20 days.102
8121237151Terrace farmingThe cutting out of flat areas (terraces) into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside. This adaptation allowed both the early Chinese, and the Inca of Mesoamerica to grow enough food for their large populations.103
8121237152NomadEarly, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge.104
8121237153Causes for European interest in exploration?The Holy Crusades, Renaissance and The Protestant Reformation.105
8121237154Martin LutherBroke away from the Catholic Church because of his 95 problems with the Catholic Church.106
8121237155King Henry VIIIBroke away from the Catholic Church because of his disagreement with his inability to get divorced; which eventually led to civil unrest in his country.107
8121237156New FranceEstablished in Canada and along the Mississippi River, focused on fur trade.108

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