Martin US History Fall Final Exam Unit 1
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Christopher Columbus | Westward route to the Indies |
| John Smith | Founded Virginia, leader in Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Powhatan, acted as an intermediary between the settlers and Indians |
| John Rolfe | Married Pocahontas and started the planting of tobacco in Jamestown |
| John Winthrop | Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony, Shining city upon a hill |
| Roger Williams | Founded Rhode Island for religious purposes |
| Anne Hutchinson | American colonist born in England who was banished from Boston for her religious views, charged with heresy |
| William Penn | Founded Pennsylvania, founded because of religious persecution of the Quakers |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded Georgia. Oglethorpe University |
| John Peter Zenger | Writer for the New York Weekly Journal, accused of printing false statements, freedom of the press |
| Jonathan Edwards | The Great Awakening, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| George Whitefield | The Great Awakening, said that faith and sincerity is above wealth and education |
| Benjamin Franklin | Virtues...frugality and industry, Through hard work anyone could prosper, wealth determined place in society- gentry |
| Columbian Exchange | Transatlantic trade, Europe- animals, disease(small pox, typhoid fever, measles), Native Americans- turkeys, small animals |
| Salem Witch Trials | The prosecution and execution of 20 women and men for witchcraft in Massachusetts in 1692 |
| Middle Passage | Forced transport of slaves to America, many died in route from disease, sanitation, and heat |
| The Great Awakening | This was a major religious revival in the colonies, leader Jonathan Edwards |
| Mayflower Compact | First document in the America for self-government |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Virginia, government did not protect the people against Native American uprising, Nathaniel Bacon burned Jamestown |
| Triangular Trade | Trade route between Africa, Europe, and the US |
| French and Indian War | Conflict between French/Indians and Britain, wanted the gain the Ohio River Vally and part of Canada |
| Treaty of Paris (1763) | Between France, Britain, and Spain, France gives up Canada, and land east of the Miss. R. to Britain (except New Orleans), British return Cuba to Spain for Florida |
| Battle of Quebec | British invade Canada and capture the capital, Wolfe leads siege on the city |
| Albany Plan of Union | Proposed by Benjamin Franklin to create one government for the 13 colonies |
| Nathan Hale | hung as a spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" |
| House of Burgesses | The first elected legislative assembly in the New World, established in Virginia, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes, England could veto its legislative acts |
| Navigation Acts | Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade |
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