Introduction/Chapter 1 Beginnings
Modern day country where Christopher Columbus landed.
German monk, wrote the 95 Theses due to his irritation with the Church's selling of indulgences
Who is Martin Luther?
Pennsylvania fur traders and land-hungry Virginians began to venture across the Allegheny Mountains and into the Ohio River Valley. They were met with angry French settlements and trading interests, which started this war.
What is the French Indian War?
In the winter of 1777-1778, Washington's men suffered immensely at this location.
What is Valley Forge?
Party led by Thomas Jefferson wanted embraced virtues of an agrarian republic led by self sufficient farmers.
What is the Democrat-Republican Party?
History is an attempt to give us an understanding of the_________.
What is the "middle of things"?
Grants of remission understood to ease the path through the afterlife for one's deceased relatives.
What are indulgences?
The first man to attempt to deal with the French conflict in the Ohio River Valley.
Who is Geroge Washington?
The support of this country helped the Americans gain the victory at Saratoga, which was a turning point and helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
Led by Hamilton favored a central government that would foster growth of trade and manufacturing
What are Federalists?
The monarchy that successfully found the waterborne path to India in 1498
Greater and greater centralization of power in the hands of a single sovereign whose royal prerogative was grounded in divine right.
What is Absolutism?
Name these two acts - Revenue stamps had to be purchased for legal documents and printed matter of all kinds. The other one required colonial legislatures to supply British troops with barracks and food wherever they were. Neither worked - colonists just refused.
What were the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act?
A rebellion in 1786 that was caused by class conflict and led to many leaders thinking about a revised constitution (articles of confederation).
Jeffersonians foreign policy favored this country.
What is France?
Advancements in navigation and ship design (name 2)
What are the dry magnetic compass, astrolabe, quadrant, cross-staff, Genoese carrack, Portuguese caravel?
The first English colony in 1607.
What is Jamestown in Virginia?
____________said this:"The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations."
Who was John Adams?
The "architect" or "father of the American Constitution" due to his vital importance and influence on the constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
Hamiltonians Foreign policy favored
What is Great Britain?
The West was viewed as the promise land to (5)
Who were: Erik the Red who named Greenland, Ancient Greeks who spoke of the Isles of the Blessed, Homer of the Elysian Fields, Thomas Moore's "Utopia," and Francis Bacon's "The New Atlantis."
A company where stockholders pooled their capital resources, maximizing their assets while minimizing potential liabilities.
What is a joint-stock company?
This piece directed the grievances onto the King himself, calling for American independence and the creation of a democratic republic.
What was Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense?
The term signifying the King of Great Britain's (King George II) policy of not interfering in the affairs of the American colonist. This policy endured around the time of the end of the French and Indian War (which ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763)
What is salutatory neglect
Landmark court case that established the principle of judicial review—the power of federal courts to declare acts of Congress and the president unconstitutional
What is Marbury vs Madison?