Period 1
The rigid social system that was created by the Spanish in the New World.
What is the encomienda system?
Two-part Question:
This 1607 Chesapeake colony was made successful because of the cultivation of this crop.
What is Jamestown and tobacco?
This is what the French mostly traded with Native Americans.
What is fur?
After the French and Indian War, this prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1786-87 uproar by Massachusetts farmers over taxes proved that the Articles of Confederation were too weak and needed to be replaced.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
A belief that it is better to export than import and create a favorable balance of trade. This idea helped lead to colonization.
What is mercantilism?
This is the first legislative body in the colonies (Virginia).
What is the House of Burgesses?
The proprietary colony of Maryland was founded as a safe haven for Catholics, but they were eventually was outnumbered by Protestants due to this 1649 law.
What is the Act of Toleration?
In 1764, this law stated that colonists had to provide housing to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
What is the Stamp Act?
These are the stops of Triangular Trade AND what was exchanged.
Example - "Item" came from "place" and was sent to "place"
Raw materials from the New World to Europe
Manufactured items from Europe to Africa
Enslaved people from Africa to the New World
This is the first European constitution created on American soil. (Connecticut)
What are the Fundamental Orders?
This granted 50 acres of land to settlers that could make their way to the English colonies.
What is the headright system?
English colonies had a great degree of self-government because of the distance between the Americas and Britain.
What is Salutary Neglect?
These laws established during Adams's presidency violated the 1st Amendment by outlawing criticism of the administration. Jefferson and Madison countered these acts with the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
In 1680, this was a violent reaction to the Spanish forcefully converting Native Americans to Christianity in modern day Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
These laws prohibited the English colonies from freely trading with other nations. It led to colonists smuggling successfully for many years before the end of the French and Indian War.
What are the Navigation Acts?
In Massachusetts, this theocratic leader proclaimed it to be a "city upon a hill", or an example to the world.
Who is John Winthrop?
The first battles of the American Revolution in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This 1776 pamphlet was written by _______ to convince colonists in plain language that it was "time to part" with British rule.
(Name to author and the pamphlet)
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
The correspondence between de las Casas and Sepulveda over the treatment of Native Americans in the New World.
What are known as the Valladolid Debates?
A movement of religious revival in the colonies. Popular preachers included George Whitefield and John Edwards.
What is the Great Awakening?
This religious group could be found in places like Pennsylvania and is known for pacifism, tolerance, and shaking as a part of worship.
Who are the Quakers?
This created a bicameral system in the new American government. It reconciled representation issues between small states (like New Jersey) and larger states (like Virginia).
What is the Great Compromise?
The election of 1800 is known as the Revolution of 1800 because of the change of power from one party to the other.
Who lost (and their party) and who won (and their party)?
Federalist John Adams lost.
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson won.