Period 1
Highly contagious disease brought by Europeans that killed millions of American Indians, who had not been previously exposed to this disease.
What is small pox?
English Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England
What are separatists?
The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607.
What is Jamestown
Law passed by Britain to force colonists to pay taxes to house and feed British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method.
What is The Enlightenment?
Set up the 1st independent American government (1783-88). Nonbinding "league of friendship" among sovereign states with weak central government to help with common defense & cooperation
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This group colonized the Americas by the conquistadors in search for gold, glory and god.
Who are the Spanish?
Preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Americans moved from subsistence farming to this. Growing crops for market rather than personal use.
What are Cash Crops?
Theory that claimed that every Member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even those Americans in Boston or Charleston who had never voted for a member of the London Parliament.
What is Virtual Representation?
The first is in 1774 and the second is in 1775. They both take place in Philadelphia
What is the Continental Congress?
4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses
What are the intolerable acts?
Between the new world and the old world consisting of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice, coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies
A practice where plantation owners in the colonies paid for people's voyages in exchange for a certain amount of year's work (approx. 7 years)
What is Indentured Servitude?
According to this doctrine, the colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country
What is Mercantilism?
English law enacted after gaining territory from the French at the end of the French and Indian War. It forbade the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Gave the famous "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech.
Who is Patrick Henry?
Native people found in the American southwest who for many years resisted Spanish encroachment on Indian land and attempts at forced conversions.
Who are the Pueblos?
Regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy--restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The settlers would build a harmonious, godly community in which individuals would subordinate their personal interests to a higher purpose. The result would be an example for all the world and would particularly inspire England to live up to its role as God's "elect nation".
What is the "city upon a hill"?
Fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley
What is the French and Indian War?
It called for the colonists to realize their mistreatment and push for independence from England.
What is Common Sense?
Last battle of the revolution; Benedict Arnold, Cornwallis and Washington; colonists won because British were surrounded and they surrended
What is Yorktown?
Spanish priest who wrote about the many atrocities he witnessed the Spanish commit against the Indians.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
Applied to those members of the Puritan colonies who were the children of church members, but who hadn't achieved grace themselves. The covenant allowed them to participate in some church affairs.
What is the Halfway Convenent?
A respected Puritan minister who believed that the individual's conscience was beyond the control of any civil or church authority. He was banished from the Bay colony for his beliefs. In 1636, he founded the settlement of Providence.
Who is Roger Williams?
Armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
A term used to describe supporters of the Constitution during ratification debates in state legislatures.
What are Federalists?
1744, law passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, Expanded the borders of Canada
What is the Quebec act?