War/Rebellion
Unlike the American Revolution, this conflict was primarily a struggle between Native peoples and English colonists over land, settlement, and cultural survival.
King Phillip's/ Metacom's War
The growth of this institution provided wealthy planters with a labor force while simultaneously creating a racial hierarchy that became increasingly embedded in colonial law.
What is chattel slavery?
The trading system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
Triangular Trade/ Atlantic Trading System
This 1776 document declared that the colonies were independent and argued that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
Declaration of Independence
Britain's attempt to raise colonial revenue after 1763 directly contributed to protests over these policies.
What are the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and other taxes?
This 1676 uprising demonstrated tensions among frontier settlers, Native Americans, wealthy planters, and colonial governments and contributed to Virginia's increasing reliance on African slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The 1620 agreement established by the Pilgrims that created a form of self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The economic system in which European nations sought to increase their wealth by controlling trade and accumulating precious metals.
What is mercantilism
This 1795 agreement temporarily improved relations with Britain but angered many Americans because it appeared to make concessions to the British.
What is Jay's Treaty?
How did the economies of the northern and southern colonies develop differently?
Northern colonies developed more diversified economies based on commerce, shipping, manufacturing, and small farms, while southern colonies relied more heavily on plantation agriculture, cash crops, and enslaved labor.
This 1794 uprising demonstrated that the new federal government had enough authority to enforce its laws when Washington called out troops to suppress the rebellion.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This exchange transformed both hemispheres by introducing crops, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic; its effects were especially devastating to Native populations because of epidemic disease.
What is Columbian Exchange?
The 1730s–1740s religious revival that emphasized emotional religious experiences and challenged established churches.
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1797 agreement ended a diplomatic crisis with France after French officials demanded bribes before negotiating with American diplomats.
What is the XYZ Affair
The Boston Tea Party was primarily caused by colonists' opposition to this larger principle rather than simply opposition to the price of tea.
What is taxation without representation/Parliamentary authority?
This 1770 confrontation became Patriot propaganda after British soldiers killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
In 1680, the Pueblo peoples united under the leadership of Popé to drive Spanish colonists and missionaries out of present-day New Mexico, making this the most successful Native uprising against European colonization in the region.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
The belief that humans could use reason and observation to understand the natural world and improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
This European nation's military, financial, and naval assistance became especially important to the American victory and contributed to the British defeat at Yorktown.
What is France?
Compare the political ideas of the Patriots and Loyalists during the American Revolution.
What is disagreement over sovereignty, representation, and the legitimacy of British authority?
This 1786–1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation because the national government struggled to respond effectively to economic unrest.
What is Shay's Rebellion
This Native American agricultural practice involved planting corn, beans, and squash together, allowing the crops to support one another and improve soil productivity.
What is the Three Sisters agriculture?
The Constitution attempted to resolve the weaknesses of the Articles while also preventing the concentration of political power through this principle.
What is checks and balances?
This controversial election demonstrated the growing power of political parties and resulted in the peaceful transfer of presidential power from one political party to another.
What is the election of 1800?
Compare the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. Identify ONE major continuity and TWO significant changes.
Continuity: republican government; Changes: stronger central government, taxation, executive, bicameral legislature, federalism, etc.