Period 1 Review
Search for new sources of wealth, economic and military competition, and desire to spread Christianity
What is European motives for exploration?
Colonial region settled by Puritans that developed around small towns with family farms and had an economy based on commerce
What are the New England colonies?
Disputed territory over which the British and French fought for control
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Theory which held that women had a particularly important role in this society instructing their children and therefore should be educated
What is Republican Motherhood?
All power was placed in this branch
What is legislative?
Process that brought new crops to Europe from the Americas, stimulating European population growth
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Colonial region that supported a flourishing export economy based on cereal crops and attracted a broad range of European migrants leading to greater diversity and tolerance
What are the middle colonies?
An uprising of an alliance of Native American tribes that resulted in destruction of forts and settlements from New York to Virginia
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
What are the Intolerable or Coercive Acts?
Riot against the government of farmers who were unable to pay their debts and lost their farms
What is the encomienda system?
Strengthened the Jamestown settlement by imposing work and order on the colonists
Who is Captain John Smith
Unofficial British policy toward the colonies that ended when they attempted to exercise more direct control as a result of their war debt
What is salutary neglect?
Locations of the first two skirmishes between the Colonists and the British
What are Lexington and Concord?
Shays' rebellion revealed a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation because they did not allow for this
What is a standing army?
Explorer who led army of 600 to march on Tenochtitlan and challenge its ruler, Moctezuma
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677 against Colonial Governor William Berkeley after he refused to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Proposal made by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War that would provide an intercolonial government that could recruit troops and collect taxes
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Sent to King George III by delegates in July 1775 in which they promised loyalty but asked for their complaints to be addressed
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
No executive branch, no power to levy taxes, unanimous vote required to make changes
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Spanish conquistadors read this document, composed in 1514, to Indians of the new world which explained Spain’s assertion of its legal and moral right to rule over the inhabitants of Latin America
What is Requerimiento?
Uprising of indigenous people against Spanish colonizers imposing religious, economic, and political institutions on them
What is Pope's Rebellion or the Pueblo Revolt?
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued the colonies should break political ties with the British monarchy
What is Common Sense?
Turning point of the Revolution that convinced France to help the Americans
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory and provided guidelines for territories to become states
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?