AP Exam Flashcards - Key Events
types of early Native American society
North: fishing, hunting
South: agriculture
Great Lakes: Iroquois League, “three sisters”, slash-and-burn agriculture
Great Plains: nomadic bison-hunting
Southwest: maize (from Mexico)
Christopher Columbus travels to America, spurring the Age of Exploration
1492
God, Gold, and Glory
Columbian Exchange
trade of goods, animals, ideas, and disease between the New and Old Worlds
Triangular Trade
path of trade between the Americas (raw materials), Europe (markets), and Africa (labor)
New Spain
conversion, some assimilation leading to caste system
extraction of resources
encomienda system
1512
giving land to settlers in exchange for promise to convert some native laborers
New France
1608: Quebec
value on fur trade, mutually beneficial relationships
New Netherlands
1625
value on fur trade, not much focus on conversion
first African ship arrives in New World, carrying slave labor
1525
Virginia Company of London establishes the first permanent settlement at Jamestown
1607
joint-stock company
settlers given equal rights as Englishmen
Starving Time
1607-1625
“He who shall not work, shall not eat”
House of Burgesses
1619
first form of representative government
disbanded in 1624
Barbados Slave Code
1661
establishes early presence of “Black codes” in Americas
First Anglo-Powhatan War
1610-1614
ends on uneasy peace with Powhatan’s Confederacy
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
1622-1646
first instance of use of reservation land for Native Americans (Cherokee)
“King Nicotine”
1612
John Rolfe discovers fecundity of tobacco
Maryland
Act of Toleration (1649): preludes freedom of religion as Catholic sanctuary
West Indies; Carolinas; Georgia
Chesapeake colonies
slavery; split; buffer colony
Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts after time spent in Holland
1620
sign Mayflower Compact, giving first form of self-representative government contract (consent of the governed)
1630s Great Migration
growth of Massachusetts Bay Colony; growth of Northern industry
Rhode Island
settled by radical Roger Williams, who allows freedom of religion
shelters Anne Hutchinson (1637), who preaches antinomianism
Pequot War
1637
annihilation of Pequot tribe
Metacom’s War
1675-1676
Metacom’s Confederacy fails; native threats virtually extinguished
Fundamental Orders
1639
document signed by Connecticut as crude Constitution
Pennsylvania
Quakers; religious freedom, non-violence
Middle Passage
dangerous trip between Africa and the Americas for slaves
Bacon’s Rebellion
1676
establishes need for labor outside of indentured servitude
Stono Rebellion
1739
huge slave revolt; also see quiet resistance on part of enslaved
mercantilism
laboring for profit of mother country
Trade and Navigation Acts (1651) underscore salutary neglect
First Great Awakening
George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards
Zenger Trial
1734-1735
establishes freedom of the press
Pueblo Revolt
1680
marks substantial Native American resistance and success
French and Indian War
1754-1763
end of salutary neglect
fighting over land in Ohio River Valley; Proclamation of 1763 forbids settlement in newly acquired area
Treaty of Paris (1763); British double national debt
Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763) - group confederacy
Albany Plan
1754
Franklin’s attempt at an intercolonial government
transatlantic print culture
spreads ideals of Enlightenment, pragmatism to United States
Grenville’s Reforms
1763-1766
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act
leads to Sons and Daughters of Liberty; Stamp Act Congress; Committees of Correspondence
Declaratory Act
gives Britain the power to enact whatever laws it should choose
Boston Massacre
1770
rioting colonists provoke Redcoat bullets
Boston Tea Party
1773
thinly veiled attempt at showing “Native Americans” rioting against taxes
First Continental Congress
1774
after Intolerable (Coercive) Acts put in place
Common Sense, Declaration of Independence published
1776
Washington re-crosses the Delaware, rallies troops to become a hero
Christmas 1776
Battle of Saratoga
1777
first decisive win for the colonies
incites French aid
Battle of Yorktown
1781
British surrender
Treaty of Paris
1783
recognize colonies as independent, sovereign entities
Philadelphia Convention
1787
Federalists gather to create laws outlining new government
Constitution
1789
Great Compromise; Slave Trade Compromise; Three-Fifths Compromise
ratified only with the promise of the Bill of Rights (1791)
Federalist Papers
essays by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton encouraging ratification of the Constitution (anonymous)
Washington becomes president; Cabinet created
1789
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
prohibits slavery in all newly acquired midwestern territories
Judiciary Act
1789
establishes Supreme, federal, and circuit courts
Hamilton’s Economic Plan
loose constructionist
assumption of state debts
high protective tariff
Bank of the United States
Proclamation of Neutrailty
1793
pledge to stay out of foreign wars
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
Washington uses excess federal force to quell rebels
Jay’s Treaty
1794
trade between US and Britain becomes “most favored”
Washington’s Farewell Address
warning against interventionism and political parties
XYZ Affair
1797
creation of Navy, re-establishment of Marine Corps
Alien and Sedition Acts
1798
new residency requirements and free speech constraints
inspire Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions –> Theory of Nullification
Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson elected as first Democratic-Republican
first party switch
Naturalization Law
1802
pardons Alien and Sedition Acts
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Jefferson oversteps federal government’s power under strict constructionist argument
Tripolitan War
1801-1805
Jefferson forced to create infantile Army, Navy to deal with Barbary pirates
Embargo of 1807
backfires substantially; Jefferson oversteps executive power
War of 1812
caused by desire for economic and maritime rights
Britain impressing American soldiers during battle with French
Battle of Tippecanoe
1811
Tecumseh’s forces (Native American confederation) defeated by William Henry Harrison
Treaty of Ghent
1814
armistice; virtually no land changes hands
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1814
Jackson becomes the “Indian Killer”
Hartford Convention
1814
death of the Federalist party - they look like traitors
Battle of New Orleans
1815
Jackson becomes a national hero
Era of Good Feelings
death of Federalist party ushers in period with only Democratic-Republicans
Marbury v. Madison
1803
judicial review
McColloch v. Maryland
1819
constitutionality of National Bank
federal power > state power
Territorial changes
British Cession (1818)
Florida Cession (1819)
Russo-American Treaty (1824)
Monroe Doctrine
1823
isolationism and imperialism in the Western Hemisphere
market revolution
integration of new technologies
steel plow, canals, telegram, cotton gin, commercial farming
national identity formed through American economic superpower
American System
1824
recharter National Bank
new (high) protective tariffs
growth of infrastructure
Common Man Democracy
acheived during Era of Good Feelings through universal white male suffrage
Panic of 1819
first major financial crisis is scapegoated onto the National Bank
Missouri Compromise
1820
line drawn at 36’30 parallel: no slavery above