Martin Test 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Christopher Columbus | discoverd america in 1492. origianaly set out to find a westward route to the indies. sailed in the Nina, Pinta, Santa maria |
| Nathan Bacon | lead Colonists to rebel against the British, they burned Jamestown |
| Puritans | domanant religion in America in early colonial period |
| john winthrop | preacher that lead the enlightenment |
| Roanoke | Lost Colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. |
| Reasons for settling in Virginia | To gain wealth and to convert natives to Christianity. |
| Reasons for settling in Maryland | For Lord Baltimore to gain wealth and to protect Roman Catholics in Protestant England. |
| Reasons for settling in Georgia | For a safe haven for people in debt, to serve as a bunker between the rest of the colonies and the Spanish. |
| Reasons for settling in Rhode Island | They were a collection of people thrown out of churches that joined together to form plantations and eventually a new colony. |
| Reasons for settling in Pennsylvania | William Penn the founder wanted t have religious freedom. (Quakers) |
| Bunker Hill | Colonist lost this battle through lack of supplies To save ammunition the soldiers were told "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. |
| Jamestown | failed at being a colony then later the first successful colony established in the Americas |
| Salem (Massachusetts) | location of the infamous witch trails, where 20 people were convicted of being witched and then killed |
| Philadelphia | City of brotherly love |
| Fort Duquesne | Battle in the French and Indian War, eventually became Pittsburg. |
| Fort Necessity | Defeat for George Washington In the French & Indian War. |
| Fort Niagara | Colonist Victory for a fort on a hill that sent the French back to Canada. |
| Quebec | Turning point in the French & Indian War that was taken from the French. |
| Harvard | First college in America that was established by Puritans as a preacher training school. |
| Rhode Island | A colony in the New England region of America founded by Roger Williams |
| Yorktown | Last battle of the American Revolution, Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington |
| Saratoga | Turning point in the American Revolution. |
| Lexington & Concord | First battles of the American Revolution, "Shot Heard around the World." |
| Princeton & Trenton | American Revolution battle led by George Washington to surprise the British on December 26th |
| Boston | Where many British troops were staying to prevent colonial smuggling. |
| Montreal | Was taken from the French in the French & Indian War soon after Quebec. |
| Charleston | Stoner Rebellion location. |
| Colombus | Explored America for God, Gold and Glory. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade and British Colonists from settling west of the Appalachians. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Set the territories for the Spanish and Portuguese in America. |
| Treaty of Paris (1783) | The Treaty that ended the American Revolution. |
| Treaty of Paris (1763) | The Treaty that ended the French & Indian War. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Plan pruposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies in Military and Trade |
| Navigation Act | Gave control of the Colonists trading to the British. So all goods being traded to the Americas must be carried by British ships. |
| William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) |
| Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, they founded Pennsylvania |
| John Peter Zenger | writer that fought for freedom of the press |
| Jonathan Edwards | extreme puritan preached "sinners in the hands of an angry God" |
| George Whitfield | English preacher who led the Great Awakening by traveling through the colonies |
| George Washington | young general during the French and Indian War, and lead the colonists in the Revolutionary war, eventually the first president of the United states |
| Patrick Henrey | "Give me Liberty or give me death!" |
| Nathan Hale | soldier that spyed on the british for general Washington "I only regret that I only have one life to loose for my country" |
| Iroquois | Indians struggling to keep there land |
| Thomas Pane | wrote the pamphlet "Common sense", "citizens rather than subjects" |
| Benjamin franklin (dude on the hundred) | created the bifocal glasses, and worked with electricity |
| Vasco de Gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world but he died in the Philippines on the voyage, |
| Hernando de soto | Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain |
| Ponce de leon | Explored Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia for King George, a place for people with debt to start fresh in the New world |
| Crispus Attucks | first person killed in the Boston Massacre, black laborer, only African-American person killed in Boston Massacre |
| gentry | the most powerful members of a society |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the declaration of independence, 3rd president of the USA |
| James Ottis | strong believe and actavist of "no taxation without representation" |
| Hessians | german mercenaries that fought for Britain, were defeated by George Washington when he crossed the Delaware at the battle of Trenton and Princeton |
| Ethan Allen | a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British |
| mercantilism | that a colony should build as much bullion (money) as possible |
| columbian exchange | the exchange of goods, diseases, crops, and livestock between the old world and the new |
| "starving time" | The winter of 1609 to 1610 was known as the "starving time" to the colonists of Virginia. Only sixty members of the original four-hundred colonists survived. The rest died of starvation because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the new world. |
| indentured servants | worker that worked for free but gained a trade under his/her 7 year service |
| charter | grant to sail through the king's territory |
| Bacon's Rebellion | A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attemp to gain more rights |
| Stono Rebellion | slave rebellion that killed 20 white rebellion settlers, the slaves tried to escape to Florida but failed |
| Great Migration | movement of Europeans to the new world |
| "city upon a hill" | puritan view of what the new world was, a new start for God's choosen |
| Old Deluder act | for every 50 families there should be at least one teacher |
| Salem witch trials | series of trials that convicted and put to death 20 people accused of witchery...(witchery?) |
| blue laws | law saying you cannot buy alcohol on sunday |
| Puritan work ethic | hard work is comething to be respected and defines what kind of person yo are, "if you dont work you dont eat" |
| salutary neglect | if you leave the colony alone it will prosper by itself |
| Middle passage | passage that moved thousands of slaves to the new world, many died on the way over from Africa |
| Great awakening | spiritual movement of puritanism |
| French and Indian war | two front war; Indians vs. colonists and French vs. British |
| triangular trade | A three way system of trade during Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa |
| differences between the area of colonies | NE: highest population of literate people MIDDLE: highest population, slaves were more cooks and maids that hard labor workers SOUTHERN:highest slave population |
| "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" | preached by Jonathan Edwards, extreme puritan during the great awakening, convincing people that they were all going to hell (sounds like a nice guy) |
| problems with Jamestown | it was built on a swamp, starving time, poor leadership, indian attacks |
| name all the british taxes and acts | navigation acts, sugar tax, stamp act, quartering act |
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