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 the states that goes into effect in 1781
What are the Articles of Confederation?
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?
This uprising by Massachusetts farmers intensified concerns about the effectiveness of the Confederation government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
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?
The phrase 'no taxation with representation' might have its origins in this 13th century English document, which stated no freeman would be 'amerced' (fined) without consultation of his peers
What is the Magna Carta?
What are Saratoga & Germantown?
A compromise between those who wanted direct election and those who wanted state election of the national magistrate
What is the Electoral College?
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 also 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?
Washington’s response to this 1794 uprising demonstrated the federal government’s increased ability to enforce national laws, though it also increased political division between the emerging Republican and Federalist parties
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
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.
To these grievous acts and measures, Americans cannot submit, but [we have] resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures ...
2. To prepare an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America:
3. To prepare a loyal address to his majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.
What is the colonies were ready to completely separate from England?
What is the colonists' saw themselves as distinct, yet, also British?
Deals a strong blow to the Southern strategy, as the Patriot victory here helps to discourage Loyalist recruitment
What is King's Mountain?
The significance of the 1800 election
What is the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties?