Apush Ch 1-4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 By A.D. 1150, the Mississippian city of ____________, near present day St. Louis, held a population of 15,000 to 20,000 | Cahokia |
| the european inheritance pattern known as _________ allowed fathers to bestow the bulk of their property on their eldest son | primogenitive |
| In traditional European peasant society, the ______ - field system required that villagers farm the land cooperatively | common |
| The monarch who financed Columbus' voyages to the Americas were King ___________ of Aragon and Queen _______ of Castile | Ferdinand; Isabel |
| the transfer of plants and animals to the Americans from Europe and Africa and vice versa is known as the _______________ | Columbian Exchange |
| ____________ was the doctrine that stated that before one's birth God had already decided whether or not one would attain salvation | Predestination |
| Those who demanded a state-directed economy in which national weath would accumulate through the reduction of imports and the increase of exports were advocates of _____________ | mercantilism |
| the "middle people of a condition between gentlemen and peasants" in English Society were the ______________ | Yeomen |
| The _________ were English laws that allowed landowners to fence in the open fields that surrounded many pleasant villages | enclosure acts |
| Pope, an Indian shaman, led a sucessful uprising against Spanish rule in _________________ | New Mexico |
| Govenor ____________ of New Amsterdam alienated settlers with his harsh, overbearing rule | Peter Stuyvesant |
| The English adventurer ____________ was primarily responsible for the development of commercial tobacco cultivation in Virginia and became the son-in-law of _________ | James Wolfe; James Grant |
| Virginia's legislative body, the ______________________, first convened in 1619 | House of Burgesses |
| The propietor who founded Maryland was ___________ | Calvert |
| During the 1600s in Virginia, Africans were indentured servants legally because English common law didn't allow ______________ | chattel slavery |
| In Bacon's rebellion, militiamen defied the orders of _________________ and attacked Native Amerian villages | Berkley |
| Puritan leaders likened their religious community to "a City upon a(n) ____" to admonish fellow settlers to set an example for Europe | Hill |
| _____________ led the Puritan expedition to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 | Winthrop |
| In 1692, poor and resentful farmers liviing in the colony of _______ began to bring accusations of witchcraft against wealthier church members living near the town of __________ | Massachusetts; Salem |
| Most adult men in New England Puritan communities had a vote in the ___________ the main institutions of local government | town meetings |
| In 1636, warriors of the ________ tribe attacked Puritan farmers who had begun to intrude on their lands in the Connecticut River Valley | Pequot |
| Settlements of New England Algonquian peoples who converted to Christianity were called _________ | praying towns |
| ___________, called King Phillip's Rebellion by the English, led a coalition of tribes in attacks on New Englan settlements in 1675 and 1676 | Metacom |
| The proprietor of the newly captured Dutch colony New Netherland was ____________. | Duke of Yorkshire |
| James II sent __________ to rule the Dominion of New England | Edward Andros |
| In New York in 1691, ____________ led a rebellion against the Dominion of New York | Jacob Leisler |
| England's West Indian weath in the 18th century was based on the production of __________ | sugar |
| The slave-trade voyage from Africa to the Carribbean or other parts of the Americas was known as the __________ | Middle Passage |
| By 1720, Africans numbered ______ percent of the Chesapeake population | 20 |
| _________ was the main slave-produced crop grown in the Chesapeake region of virginia and maryland in the 1700s | Tobacco |
| by the early 18th century, there were more Africans in the colony of ______ than whites | South Carolina |
| The govenor of the Spanish colony of florida promised freedom to fugitive slaves, instigating the first major slave revolt in American history, the _______ rebellion of 1739 | Stono |
| As time passed, wealthy Chesapeake gentlemen began to model themselves on the English aristocracy by cultivating _________, a refined elaborate lifestyle | gentility |
| By 1776, ___________ was the largest port city in the American colonies, with a population of 30,000 | Philaedelphia |
| Edmund Burke praised Britain's mercantilist strategy of relaxing its oversight of internal colonial affairs as a policy of ________________. | salutary neglect |
| Because the colony of Georgia was intended for the poor, land grants were initially limited to ________ acres, and ___________ was outlawed | 500; slavery |
| In addition to immigrants from the British Isles, large numbers of __________ - speaking people such as the mennonites escaped religious upheaval to settle Pennsylvania | German |
| The largest group of European immigrants to British North America between 1720 and 1776 was the _________ | Scots-Irish |
| The English Scientist ___________ probably did more than anyone else to advance "new learning" by his explanations of physical laws in Pricipa Mathematica | Sir Issac Newton |
| In the 18th century, persons called ________ believed that God had created the world and then allowed it to operate according to the laws of nature, but did not intervene in the historical process | diests |
| In the 1730's, ________ - a conneticut river valley minister who saw Puritan religious zeal waning - urged his audience to commit to lives of piety and prayer | Whitefield |
| The ________ was a religious revival in British North America during the eighteenth century in which a more emotional approach to religion tended to supplant both intellectual and ritualistic approaches | Great Awakening |
| At the 1754 ________ Congress between Indian and colonial delegates, Benjamin Franklin proposed a Plan of Union calling for permanent colonial assembly responsible for all western affairs | Albany |
| A young Virginian named ________ led the first British attempt to dislodge the French from the Ohio River Valley in 1754 | George Washington |
| The Ottowa chief ________ led a general uprising of Ohio River Valley tribes against the British in 1763 | Pontiac |
| The British government tried to halt westward migration from the colonies by issuing the _________, which expressly prohibited white settlement west of the Appalachians | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Beginning in Britain during the middle of the eighteenth century,__________ the changed technology and the organization of economic production forever | Industrial Revolution |
| The revival of proprietary power underscored the growing strength of the landed gentry, causing tenants and yeomen farmers to look for cheap land near the ________ mountains. | Appalachian |
| The ___________, a band of Scots-Irish vigilantes in western Pennsylvania, escaped justice for their massacre of Natvie Americans in 1763 | Paxton Boys |
| In the first 1/2 of the 18th century, many more New England women than men were prosecuted for the crime of __________, or having sexual intercourse outside of marriage | Fornication |
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