Unit 1, 1491-1607
The predominant religion of Europe in 1500, soon to be challenged by the Protestant Reformation
What is Catholicism?
The British colonists who wanted to create a colony that was a "city on a hill."
Who are the Puritans?
The intellectual movement in Europe and America that inspired the American Revolution with its ideals of constitutional government and personal liberty
What is the Enlightenment?
The large tract of land that France sold to the US in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The degree of difference in wealth between the wealthiest and poorest people in a society
What is social stratification?
The formerly enslaved man whose account of the Middle Passage brought him international renown and contributed to the abolition of slavery in Britain
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The Massachusetts Bay colonist who was tried and expelled for heresy for teaching salvation by grace
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The conflict between Native Americans and the French vs. the British for control of the Ohio River Valley
What is the Seven Years War?
The invention that started the revolution of transportation in America in 1807
What is the steamboat?
The dispersion of any people from their ancestral homeland, typically by force, famine, or natural disaster
What is diaspora?
The Native American Empire in contemporary Illinois that flourished in the Middle Ages
What is Cahokia?
The conflict between New England colonists and a coalition of Native American nations that resulted in an early instance of Native American removal
What is Metacom's War?
The formerly enslaved woman whose poetry combined her African heritage with ancient Greco-Roman mythology
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Who is Sacagawea?
What is Orientalism?
The first British child born in North America who has a place in the American fascination because of her association with the lost colony of Roanoke?
Who is Virginia Dare?
The economic philosophy that a nation's wealth is best measured by its stores of precious metals and that colonies should support the mother country
What is mercantilism?
The Continental Congress's strategy for paying for the Revolutionary War before getting assistance from France in 1778.
What is Continental currency?
The ideology that emerged after the War of 1812, arguing that American settlers have a right to populate North America "from sea to shining sea."
What is Manifest Destiny?
A tax that gets cheaper as unit number increases; the cause of the conflict in the Whiskey Rebellion
What is a regressive tax?
The three kinds of primary sources that historians use to study the past.
What are documents, material culture, and oral history?
The Native American minister who was a leader in the Great Awakening, advocated for the Mohegan nation to keep their land, and founded what became Dartmouth College.
Who is Samson Occum?
The rebellion in western Massachusetts over taxes led by veterans of the Revolutionary War
What is Shays's Rebellion?
The meeting that dissolved the Federalist Party in 1815
What is the Hartford Convention?
The type of colony in which a few wealthy investors profit from a colony without moving there
What is a joint-stock company?