AP U.S. History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs | What are the three most adcanced civilizations of the more than 2,000 separate cultures that developed in the New World? |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented the moveable-type press |
| Jamestown | first permanent British settlement in America (Plymouth Plantation can be counted as well) |
| Mayflower Compact | first example of self-government in New World |
| Salve trade | begins in New World, acceptable everywhere. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | divides Spanish and Portuguese claims in Western Hemisphere. |
| encomienda | the enslavement of local people in Haiti |
| smallpox epidemic | epidemic reaches America in 1520; high death tolls |
| St. Augustine | Spain's first successful settlement in North America in Florida |
| Roanoke Island | short-lived English colony (Sir Walter Raleigh) |
| tobacco | Virginia flourishes harvesting this crop |
| House of Burgesses | First representative government in New World |
| New Amsterdam | Dutch founded colony (later New York) |
| 1630 | Massachusetts Bay Colony founded |
| Maryland | founded as a refuge for Catholics |
| Rhode Island | colony for dissenters/ promotes religious freedom |
| 1636 | Connecticut founded |
| Boston | New England slave trade begins in... |
| Restoration colonies | land granted by King Charles II for support during English Civil Wars |
| Mercantilism | an economic theory that believe the colonies should have "regulated commerce" to benefit the mother country |
| King Philip's War | (1675-1676) In Massachusetts - Wampanoag tribe v. English. English win; thousands are killed. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | In Jamestown, demanding greater protection against Native American tribes |
| Philadelphia | "holy experiment" of religious tolerance; established by William Penn with a charter from King Charles II |
| Philadelphia | First public school is established in... |
| King William's War | (1689-1697) French and Native American forces from Montreal attack New York. |
| Witchcraft trials | In Salem, Massachusetts. 19 people died. |
| College of William and Mary | College in Williamsburg, Virginia |
| Interracial marriages | (1705) Illegal and most/ all states at this point. |
| Black Code | Virginia's code that categorized black slaves as property. |
| New York | Jewish colonies built the first synagogue in this colony... |
| Roman Catholic church | First ______________ church built in Philadelphia |
| Great Awakening | evangelical and religious fervor begins in New England, led by revivalist minister Jonathan Edwards and Methodist preacher George Whitefield. (1730s-1760s) |
| Stono | slave rebellion in South Carolina |
| King George's War | British v. French colonists. Result of War of Austrian Succession in Europe. |
| Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle | indecisive close to War of Austrian Succession |
| Salutary neglect | idea that the colonies benefited by being left alone, without too much British interference |
| Seven Years' War | Fought between colonies and Britain and the French and Native Americans, mainly in Ohio and western Pennsylvania |
| taxation | result of war debts incurred by the British |
| Albany Plan of Union | plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown |
| University of Pennsylvania | (1755) first nonsectarian college in the colonies; founded by Benjamin Franklin |
| Fort Duquesne | Established by French originally but taken by the British and renamed Pittsburgh. |
| Treaty of Paris | This treaty ended the Seven Years War. |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief. Laid siege to Pittsburgh and Detroit; eventually overwhelmed and forced to sign a treaty. |
| Connecticut Courant | Today the Hartford Courant, the oldest continually publishing newspaper in America. |
| Quartering Act | (1765): Requires colonists to provide room and board to British troops. |
| Stamp Act | (1765): Imposes taxes on colonists' petty purchases, prompts meeting of Stamp Act Congress in New York |
| Declaratory Act | (1766): Asserts Parliment's right to pass laws in colonies; issued in response to repeal of Stamp Act |
| Townshend Revenue Act | (1767): Imposes taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, tea to raise revenue for Parliament to pay for administration of colonies; results in Samuel Adam's widely read letter denouncing "taxation without representation" |
| Tea Act | (1773): Designed to rescue East India Company from bankruptcy; ruins American tea trade, prompts Boston Tea Party |
| Coercive Acts and Quebec Act | (1774): Known as the Intolerable Acts; in response to the Tea Party; close Boston Harbor to trade, remove democratic elements from colonial government in Massachusetts, inhibit western expansion by extending Quebec's borders. Only choice is rebellion. |
| Stamp Act Congress | Group that meets in New York to condemn Stamp Act. |
| Sons of Liberty | Radical group that organized colonial resistance to Stamp Act |
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