AP US History Unit 2

34375164	Crevecoeur	Wrote Letters from an American Farmer describing a "new race" (Americans)
34375165	"Anglo-Saxon"	Of English heritage
34375166	The Grand Banks	Submarine plateaus off the coast of Newfoundland that are good for fishing
34375167	Corduroy Roads	Roads made of logs in swampy areas
34375168	Coopering	Making or repairing barrels
34375169	Cordwaining	Shoe-making
34375170	Jacob Rivera	Discovered that whale-oil burns
34375171	Rack-renting	Merciless rent increases
34375172	King William's War	War of the league of Augsburg (1st) 1688-1697
34375173	Queen Anne's War	War of the Spanish Succession (2nd) 1701-1713
34375174	King George's War	War of the Austrian Succession (3rd) 1740-1748
34375175	French and Indian War	Seven Year's War (4th) 1756-1763
34375176	Huron vs. Iroquois	Champlain starts Quebec (1608) and befriends Huron (gaining some Iroquois haters)
34375177	Pierre Radisson	French fur-trapper that married into a tribe; worked on "Rendezvous", working relationship w/Indians
34375178	Marquet and Juliet	Found Mississippi in 1673, just before La Salle
34375179	"Evangeline"	by Longfellow to describe what the British did to Arcadians (Cajuns)
34375180	"Battle of the Bloody Marsh"	On St. Simon's Island off the coast of GA, the Spanish attacked Oglethorpe, but the English defended well (1742)
34657347	James Fenimore Cooper	US Novelist who wrote books about Indians and frontier life including Last of the Mohicans (Natti Bumpo!)
34657726	The Ohio Company	A land speculation company organized for the colonization of the ohio area; led to French-Indian war
34657727	The Grand Council	A parliament that meets in Albany, NY to try to achieve colonial unity; Ben Frank's snake; fails.
34657728	Jeffrey Amherst	agreed to infect Indians and Montreal with blankets
34657729	John Forbes	Captures fort Duquesne (after ____ failed); named Pittsburgh after Pitt
34657730	Treaty of Paris	Ended the Seven Year's War; French out of Americas, Spanish FL to Britain, French Louisiana to Spain (1763)
34658075	Pontiac's Rebellion	Pontiac leads Ottowa Indians against Amherst over settling in the Great Lakes/Ohio area.
34658076	Proclamation of 1763	British created a boundary between colonists and Indians to prevent conflict
34658789	The Enlightenment	A philosophical movement in the 18th century characterized by belief in rational, scientific, logical reason.
34658790	John Locke	English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.
34658791	Isaac Newton	Laws of motion; Scientific
34658792	Adam Smith	Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade in "Wealth of Nations"
34658793	Deism	The religious attitude of the Awakening: God built the universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory.
34658794	Bicameral	Upper house: the "revising" chamber with limits. Lower house: the more powerful house.
34658795	The Great Awakening	"More hysterical than holiness?"; series of evangelical revivals stressing good deeds and free will.
34660144	Jonathan Edwards	Mass; evangelist during Great Awakening who wrote "Sinners in the hands of an angry God".
34660145	George Whitefield	A powerful evangelist/orator who fired up the Great Awakening.
34660146	Gilbert Tennent	A Presbyterian Scots-Irish leader during the Great Awakening; "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" undermined minister's authority -> created uncertainty
34660147	James Davenport	Burned his pants
34660148	Itinerants	Traveling preachers such as Tennent and Davenport
34660149	"Throat-slitting"	Edward's uncle slit his throat during his message
34660150	Results of Awakening	Killed "dead dogs"; more denominations; more missionary work; more colleges; 1st mass movement to "unify"
34660151	William Cosby	royal gov. of NY that gets bad press from Zenger and then throws him into jail
34660152	"Richard Saunders"	Ben Frank's pen name; Poor Richard's Almanac
34660153	"Mrs. Silence Dogod"	Ben Frank's pen name; Mass; sarcastic towards puritans
34660154	Gilbert Stuart	A famous colonial painter who painted George Washington on the dollar bill; from RI
34660155	Anne Bradstreet	A poet who wrote about women in puritan America; first published female colonial author
34660956	American Revenue Act	Briatin's name for the Sugar Act
34661282	Customs Duty (Tariff)	A tax on imported products (Sugar Act)
34661283	Excise Tax	A sales tax (Stamp Act)
34661284	"Caesar had his Brutis..."	"...Charles I had his Cromwell, George III should have his notice": Patrick Henry
34661285	Andrew Oliver	Supposed to issue stamps but was scared by the Sons of Liberty
34661569	Chancellor of the Exchequer	Secretary of the Treasury (chancellor)
34661570	Writs of Assistance	A permanent search warrant held by Customs officials (implemented by Grenville)
34662038	Admiralty Courts	Courts with no juries where the defendant was presumed guilty until proven innocent. Americans felt their basic rights as Englishmen were being violated
34662039	James Otis	A colonial Lawyer from Boston that argued for privacy
34662041	"Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania"	James Dickenson's 12 essays subtly protesting Townshend taxes
34663382	Gaspee Affair	A British ship sent to catch smugglers but the Sons of Liberty in RI set fire to it.
34663383	Thomas Hutchinson	The Boston Royalist governor that orders ships to stay before the Boston Tea Party of 1773
34663384	Coersive Acts	The British name for the Intolerable Acts that punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party
34663385	The Suffolk Resolves	Boston resolves to fight intolerable acts in 1774, leading to the CC
34663386	The 1st Cont Congress	Writes Articles of Association, creates Galloway plan to talk to Britain, and agrees to meet again
34663387	Thomas Gage	Hutchinson's replacement to inforce the intolerable acts; leader of Lexington and Concord battles
34663388	Revere's Ride	Revere rides to ward C&L but gets stopped near Lexington; Dawes and Prescott actually made it
34663692	Hesse-Cassal	The region in Germany where George III hired most Hessians
34663693	Pulaski and Kosciusko	Polish Nationals invited by Franklin to help the US
34663694	"Lafayette, we are here"	Famous saying of soldiers at Lafayette's grave 1917
34663695	Bancroft	"Whig View" of American Revolution that it was destiny
34663696	Gipson	1980s "Imperialist" view of American Revolution that it was a collision of views
34663697	Jameson	1900-1910 "Progressive" view of American Revolution that it was social tensions
34663698	Morgan	"Consensus" view of American Revolution that it was self-gov impulse
34666812	2nd Cont Congress	Created after Bunker Hill, still wanted to be part of England
34666813	Green Mountain Boys	A militia organization led by Ethan Allen that was instrumental in resisting NY's attempts to control the area
34666814	Nathan Hale	Hung as a spy after sneaking behing the British lines in the Battle of Long Island (1776)
34671252	Morris (Penn) and Solomon (NY)	Financeers of the American Revolution
34671253	Whites of their eyes	Prescott ordered for militia not to shoot until they saw the whites of the enemies eyes at Bunker Hill
34671254	Militia	Members of a military group hastily put together
34671255	Writers of Declaration of Independence	TJ, BF, JA, RS, RL
34671256	Franklin said this when signing Dec of I	"We must all hang together or we will all hang separately"
34671257	Colonal Rall	A Hessian at Princeton who wanted to meet Washington
34671258	The American Crisis	A set of pamphlets by Thomas Paine to push up spirits of soldiers
34678561	"Plain Truth"	A rebuttal to Paine's Common sense by Chalmer, a loyalist from MD
34678562	Howe's dogs	After the Battle of Germantown, (PA) Howe's dogs accidentally followed Washington's army, but were returned
34678563	Benedict's boot	Benedict Arnold slowed British down before Gates' victory at Saratoga
34678564	Conway Cabal	After Saratoga, Conway's Cabal wanted to fire Washington and put Gates in command
34678565	Mary Hale	Helped out in Monmouth (NJ) after her husband fell in battle; AKA Molly Pitcher 1778
34739293	Beaumarchais	French playwright that created French company to give supplies to the American Revolution; Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figarro
34739294	Camden	Battle in SC where Cornwallis crushed Gates' forces in 1780 (worst losses ever)
34739295	Tarleton	British cavalry officer that had a reputation for killing captives rather than taking them prisoner; Tarleton's quarter
34739296	Major John Andre	The British spy that gets plans of West Point from Arnold, but is caught and hung
34739297	Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis	John Paul Jones wins this 1779 famous naval battle against Britain; "I have not yet began to fight!"
34739298	The Sword	Cornwallis didn't show up to surrender to Washington after his defeat at Yorktown
34739299	Newburgh Conspiracy	Morris and Hamilton led officers, angry about not being paid, in plans to take over
34739300	John Jay	Writer of the Dec of I that negotiated with the British to give Americans independence, also 1st Chief Justice
34739301	Vergennes	The French foreign minister who watched the developing Anglo-American crisis with great anticipation and sent a special agent to Philadelphia to encourage the colonists and hint at French aid.