APUSH Period 1 and 2

Places

100

This was the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago

What is Bering Strait/Land Bridge

200

This country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism. Allies with the Natives.

What is France

300

This divided South America between Spain and Portugal

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas

400

The Fundemental Orders of Conneticut or significant because

What is creating the first written constitution in America

500

The House of Burgesses is significant because

What is the first representative assembly in American colonies

Places

100

This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony

What is Jamestown

200

This was the reason for founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

What is religious freedom

300

English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors

What are the Navigation Acts

400

The effects of the Glorious Rebellion include

What is the end of the Dominion of New England/increased colonial autonomy

500

A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests

What is royal colony

Terms

100

These were the three reasons for European Exploration.

What is God, Gold, Glory

200

This refers to the exchange of diseases, plants, and animals between the Old World and the New World

What is the Columbian Exchange

300

This was the main enumerated good restricted by the Navigation Acts

What is Tobacco

400

This was the impact of maize on Native American Society

What is a shift from being nomadic to settled agriculture

500

This term is used to describe the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans

What is the Middle Passage

Terms

100

This complex economic system dictated that a country should export more than it imports and build up its gold/silver reserves

What is Mercantilism

200

This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom

Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists

300

This group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century

Who are the Puritans

400

This system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival

What is the headright system

500

This was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact

What is to create a framework for self-government

Misc.

100

This was the primary economic activity of Spanish Colonies.

Mining/Gold

200

This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans

What is Encomienda

300

This Native American fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most Native Americans had either been killed off by disease or displaced

Who is King Philip or Metacom

400

This group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that all people (Native Americans, Africans etc.) were holy

Who are the Quakers

500

This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I

What is Salutary Neglect