APUSH FINAL 6 Flashcards
Bering Strait Theroy
That NA are descendants of migrants from Asia and Siberia to North America ( Paelo NA)
Columbian Exchange
The widespread exchange of plants, animals, food and diseases
Europeans felt they were more superior to NA because…
They were immune to diseases (smallpox)
European Nations came to North America for…
God
Gold &
Glory
Roanoke Colony
First English colony but failed ( aka the Lost Colony)
The quote “ he who will not work shall not eat” was said by…?
John Smith
John Rolfe is notable in two ways because he..,
1) married Pocahontas
2) started growing tobacco as a cash crop to be sent to England
Many who migrated to the Chesapeake did so for _________ reasons
Financial
Headright Sytem
When the Virginia Company was giving away acres of land to attract new settlers to the region (Land- Grant policy)
What two reasons did the French came to North America for?
1) Find a shortcut to Asia
2) Fur
Puritans
English religious group that wanted to purify the Anglican Church ( Church of England)
Separatists
Religious group that wanted to abandon the Church of England, set sail upon the Mayflower and founded Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Document that agreed to majority- rule government
Massachusetts Bay Colony was lead by ____ ________ and was established by _______
1) John Winthrop
2) Puritans
Roger Williams believed church and state should be ________.
Separate
Once Roger Williams was banished by the Puritans, he founded which Island?
Rhode Island
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the…
First written constitution in British North America
Those who settled in Pennsylvania were ______ looking for religious freedom
Quakers
Those who settled in Maryland were _________ looking for religious freedom
Catholics
Those who settled in Rhode Island were seeking religious freedom from ______
Puritans
The Prequot War
When the Pequot NA attacked the Massachusetts Bay Colony and killed 9, in result, the whole Pequot village was burned
Pueblo Revolt
A successful uprising by Pueblo NA against the Spanish
The Middle Passage
Was the shipping route that brought enslaved blacks to America ( middle leg of the triangular trade route)
In the south, slaves harvested what 3 items?
1) tobacco
2) rice
3) indigo
Protective Tariffs was the…?
Tax on imports that might compete with English goods
( lead to Navigation Acts )
Bacon’s Rebellion
Revolt by farmers because they weren’t protected from NA raids lead by Nathaniel Bacon
Stono Rebellion
The first and most successful slave rebellion in South Carolina that tightened slave code
Enlightenment
Empathized reason and science over religion
