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APUSH test Key terms

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Key Terms 17th and Early 18th Century Roanoke Virginia Company Jamestown ?Starving Time? House of Burgesses Mayflower Compact Powhatan Confederacy Royal Colony Charter Colony Joint-Stock Company Proprietary Colony Puritans Massachusetts Bay Colony Great Migration Plymouth Bay Colony Maryland Connecticut Rhode Island Pequot War Anne Hutchinson Roger Williams Maryland Toleration Act Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New Amsterdam, New York New Jersey Carolina King Philip?s War Bacon? Rebellion Pennsylvania Dominion of New England Glorious Revolution in England Delaware Georgia Harvard College Halfway Covenant Salem witchcraft trials Scotch Irish Great Awakening College of William and Mary

AP US History Review Guide- Civil War and Reconstruction

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AP US History Unit 5 War and Reconstruction Review Guide ****For the terms, famous people are italicized and key parts are underlined**** Terms Election of 1860 ? Stephen Douglas (from the torn Democratic Party), John C. Breckinridge (from southern Democrats), John Bell (from the Constitutional Union Party), and Abraham Lincoln (from the Republican Party) ran in this election. Lincoln won with a majority of electoral votes but not a majority of the popular vote. Southerners saw Lincoln?s election as a sign that their cause was hopeless, and a few weeks later, South Carolina seceded. Secession led to the Civil War.

AP US History Review Guide- Civil War and Reconstruction

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AP US History Unit 5 War and Reconstruction Review Guide ****For the terms, famous people are italicized and key parts are underlined**** Terms Election of 1860 ? Stephen Douglas (from the torn Democratic Party), John C. Breckinridge (from southern Democrats), John Bell (from the Constitutional Union Party), and Abraham Lincoln (from the Republican Party) ran in this election. Lincoln won with a majority of electoral votes but not a majority of the popular vote. Southerners saw Lincoln?s election as a sign that their cause was hopeless, and a few weeks later, South Carolina seceded. Secession led to the Civil War.

AP World History: The Earth and Its Peoples 3rd Edition: Chapter 2 Key Terms

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Key Terms Chapter 2 loess A fine, light slit deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because loess soil is not complicated, it can be worked with a simple digging stick, but it leaves the region vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Shang The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of Shang culture.

AP World History: The Earth and Its Peoples 3rd Edition: Chapter 1 Key Terms

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Key Terms Chapter 1 civilization An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits. culture Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Material culture refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools and crafts. Culture also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge and technology. history The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices. Stone Age The historical period characterized by the production of tools and other non-metallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age and more generally by the Iron Age.

Some Key terms near the Age of Enlightenment

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Papacy- The central government of Latin Christianity Renaissance- cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century Indulgences- A forgiveness of one?s sins by paying a fee Protestant Reformation- a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther- a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation Catholic Reformation- the church's attempts at reform in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Jesuits- The society of Jesus Royal Centralization- A government based on royalty ruling Holy Roman Empire- A loose federation of Germanic states and principalities. Habsburgs- A powerful family in Austria

American Pageant 13th Edition ch. 1-27 Key Terms

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Chapter 1 Marco Polo: An Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295. after his 20 year sojurn in china. An indirect discoverer of the new world. Francisco Pizarro: Conqueror of the Incas. Juan Ponce De Leon: in 1513 and 1521 Juan explored Florida in search for gold and probably not the fountain of youth, instead he met with death by the head of Indian arrow. Hernando de Soto: Hernado Monteczuma:Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors Christopher Columbus:Italian-born explorer who believed he arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on an unknown continent (the Americas) Hernan Cortes: Conqueror of the Aztecs.
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