Period 1
Plants, animals, diseases from Old World to New (and vice versa)
Columbian Exchange
VA winter of 1609-1610 - about 90% of the 500 settlers died;
Starving Time
cash crop of Colonial Virginia
Tobacco
1765 first direct tax paid by colonists; first major split between the colonists & Britain over the meaning of freedom
Stamp Act
CT: This marked the end of the popular following of the Federalist Party
Hartford Convention
Was Columbus the only European the have explored North America?
NO! no! nooooooooooo!
What did the Halfway Covenant do in Mass Bay Colony?
Encouraged church membership (not yet converted as Puritan? it's OK! women could join now)
1730s-1740s Religious Revival in British Colonies
(First) Great Awakening
January 1776 47 page cheap pamphlet Plain Truth & author
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization
Monroe Doctrine
Oldest European-established city in North America
St. Augustine, FL
Roger Williams banished from MA because he wanted separation of?
Church and State
Colonies provide raw materials; they exist to enrich the parent country
Mercantilism
TJ derived his Dec of Independence ideas from whom (English philosopher)
Henry Clay's 3: strong bank; protective tariff; infrastructure
American System
pool money and share in voyage profits; helps capitalism develop
Joint Stock Company
MD - 1649 Act of Toleration
granted religious freedom to all Christians; designed to protect Catholics
Colonial colleges trained for: doctors, scientists, politicians, clergy?
CLERGY (Church influence BIG)
Articles of Confederation were weak because they made it hard for new government to do what?
Raise MONEY through taxes
JQA's victory in the Election of 1824 (House of Reps decided & Jackson was MAD)
Corrupt Bargain
only successful expulsion of colonizing settlers in North America
1680 Pueblo Revolt in Santa Fe (NM)
VA 1676 first colonial pushback against royal control; class difference; inden. servants out & slaves in
Bacon’s Rebellion
Largest and wealthiest city south of Philadelphia in mid-1700s & WHY?
Charleston, SC - port; import slaves; export cotton, rice, indigo
July 1775 colonial document pledged loyalty and asked for protection & rights but REJECTED by King George III
Olive Branch Petition
1836 - purchase of federal land be made exclusively in gold or silver
Specie Circular