Native America & Exploration
Transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and peoples transformed both the Americas and Europe after 1492.
THIS CROP helped make the THESE TWO Chesapeake colonies economically successful
What is tobacco, and Virginia and Maryland?
George III issued this to prevent conflicts with Indians in Trans-Appalachia
What is the 1763 Proclamation?
These April 1775 battles marked the beginning of armed conflict between Britain and the colonies.
What are Concord and Lexington?
a 'firm league of friendship' among 13 small republics that goes into effect in 1781
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Three moments during Washington's presidency that intensify political division aka lead to the First Two-Party system
This granted Spanish colonists the right to demand labor or tribute from Indigenous communities.
What the encomienda system?
This series of commercial regulations were designed to ensure that colonies existed primarily to benefit the mother country
What are the Navigation Acts?
Largely affected lawyers and printers, the exact people in a place to engender opposition to it
What is the Stamp Act?
Pamphlet that not only advocated for colonial independence, but attacked the whole idea of monarchy
What is Common Sense?
A foreign policy success of the Confederation govt.
What is ending the War of Independence/negotiating the Treaty of Paris 1783, etc.?
-The impact of factions or political parties
-Permanent foreign alliances
-Necessity of carrying on commercial relations with all nations
What are warnings/recommendations in Washington's Farewell Address?
The cultivation of this crop contributed to the development of complex societies in Mesoamerica
What is maize?
The growth of lifetime chattel slavery in the Chesapeake was encouraged by the expansion of plantation agriculture and unreliability of this form of coerced labor
What is indentured servitude?
1. Made an 'end run' around colonial legislatures in royal colonies by paying governors and judges directly from the king's purse;
2. Expanded the use and number of vice-admiralty courts in English North America
What are the Townshend Acts?
Battles in Oct 1777 that convinced France to enter the war as an American ally
What are Saratoga & Germantown?
This uprising by Massachusetts farmers intensified concerns about the effectiveness of the Confederation government.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
What is the Quasi-War with France?
Spanish colonization differed from English colonization partly because the Spanish more frequently pursued this GOAL with indigenous populations
What is conversion/assimilation/integration?
The idea behind this unofficial policy (1680s-1760s) was to make the colonies flourish economically, and thus Britain
It also contributed to the growing autonomy of colonial governments
What is salutary neglect?
designed to make an example of Massachusetts Bay, it instead hardened colonial opposition to imperial policies, and led to the Continental Association
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is Monmouth Courthouse?
This was designed to 'protect' the President from becoming too biased towards one or more groups, regions, etc.
What is the Electoral College?
Though they initially had public support, over time it came to be seen as an abuse of federal power - and contributed to Federalist losses in the 1800 elections
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
The devastating decline of Indigenous populations after European contact was primarily caused by the intro of European diseases, such as these two
What is introduction of diseases such as smallpox, measles, malaria, mumps?
This eighteenth-century movement challenged established churches and encouraged individuals to question traditional authority.
One of the actions taken by this intercolonial meeting was to create a 'boycott' called the Association
What is the First Continental Congress?
Deals a strong blow to the Southern strategy, as the Patriot victory here helps to discourage Loyalist recruitment
What is King's Mountain?
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions ... will ... amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation."
A. Hamilton, Fed No 15, 1788
Problem of the Confederation discussed by Hamilton in Fed. No 15
What is lack of executive power?
The significance of the 1800 election
What is the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties?