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Early Settlements
Early Settlements
This settlement was established in 1607 and became the first English colony in America.
What is Jamestown
Part of America where nomadic hunting occurred, farms, tepees, and earth lodges. Also known for having plenty of buffalo.
What are the Great Plains
An exchange of animals, plants, diseases, and germs between Europeans and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The month, day, and year that the Declaration of Independence was published by the Second Continental Congress.
What is July 4, 1776?
Washington's personal aide, later Secretary of the Treasury. Wrote like he was running out of time.
The first major cash crop in the English colonies, mostly grown in Virginia.
What is tobacco?
A powerful Native confederacy was located in the American Northeast
Who are the Iroquois?
Deadly portion of the Triangle Trade in which African slaves were transported to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This issue was the major cause of the American Revolution.
What is high taxation rates?
In an attempt to pacify the colonists, the British lowered tariff rates on sugar, lumber, and additional goods. But created stricter enforcement of smuggling, punished by vice-admiralty courts.
What is the Sugar Act? (1754)
The European nation whose colonies generally had the most peaceful relationship with Native Americans, AND the reason that their relationship was so peaceful.
Who are the French, because they were invested in trading partnerships with indigenous people.
Name three impacts of the exploration and settlement of Europeans on Native Americans.
What is enslavement, displacement, loss of land, and death from war and disease.
Conflict between the British and the French colonists in North America, part of a larger worldwide war, which put the British deep into debt.
What is the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War?
This pamphlet convinced colonists to support the revolutionary cause in SIMPLE language
This revolt early in Washington's presidency ends with him personally shutting down protest over the rising cost of a certain beverage.
What is the Whisky Rebellion? (1794)
The Spanish set up this system in their colonies that granted conquistadors plots of land and the labor of the native people who lived there.
What is the encomienda system?
War fought in 1676 between New England colonists and various Native American tribes
These people were Europeans who promised to work for 7-10 years in exchange for the cost of passage to the British colonies in North America.
Indentured servants
Ideas of self-government were drawn from this European philosophical movement.
This revolt against the Virginia elite was led by both white indentured servants and African slaves.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay were driven to the North American colonies this desire, articulated by John Winthrop in 1630.
What is the religious devotion to create a "city on a hill" that served as a moral example to the world.
This conquistador turned priest advocated for better treatment of Native Americans.
Bartolome de las Casas
System where a mother country exploits the resources of colonies for profit.
What is mercantilism?
Name one weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
No executive or judicial system
Could not regulate interstate commerce
Limited taxation
Each state received one vote
No new tax or amendments without unanimous consent
No standing army
This movement emphasized personal conversion experiences, faith as the road to salvation, and greater accessibility to religion.