apush midterm csv Flashcards
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Land Bridge
The theory that Native Americans reached North America by walking across a land bridge made of ice
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Encomienda System
A formal system of forced labor in spanish colonists in Latin America under this system indigenous americans were forced to pay tribute to colonists with food, cloth, minerals, and laborers
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Columbian Exchange
the process of plants, animals, diseases, people, ad ideas being transferred and traded between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Conquistadores
Spanish explorers
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Treaty of Tordesillas
The agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the right to colonize all the land outside of Europe
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Colonists Motives
Colonists wanted political liberty, religious freedom, and economic opportunity
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Growth of Slavery
Slavery grew in the colonies because the colonists needed workers who were natives to work on the cash crop fields this led to an influx of African slaves because they were already exposed to European diseases making disease less of an issue
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Bartolome de las Casas
An early spanish historian who was the first to expose the oppression of the indigenous people by Europeans in the Americas and called for the abolition of slavery in the Americas
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Valladolid Debate
A moral and theological debate held in Valladolid about the conquest of the Americas and the justification of catholicism conversions
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Juan Ginés de Sepúlved
A humanist lawyer who justified the treatment of natives saying they were “natural slaves” and that spanish presence would benefit them in New World
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Black Legend
A style of propaganda that criticized the Spanish Empire which accused them of cruelty and intolerance
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Puritan Beliefs
Puritans believed that God expected them to live according to scriptures and set a good example that would cause those in Europe to change their sinful ways
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Religious Tolerance
Unlike Europe in the Americas there was religious tolerance hence why people fled to the Americas to flee religious persecution
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Roger Williams
He founded the Providence Plantations which became colony of Rhode Island
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Jonathan Edwards
A congregationalist pastor in one of the most significant churches in New England and remained an influential philosophical theologian
Early Americas and Colonial Events - George Whitefield
He ignited the first Great Awakening, a major religious revival that changed the way people experienced and viewed God
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Colonial Government
Colonial legislature was elected by property holding men while governors were appointed by the kind and had almost complete authority
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Jamestown
Economic empire most grew tobacco (in Virginia)
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Plymouth
Used for agriculture, fishing, and trading (Southeast of Boston)
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Indentured Servants
A form of labor where an individual is contracted to work without a salary to repay an indentured loan within a certain timeframe (many people worked as indentured servants to work off having their passage to America paid for)
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Navigation Laws
Acts of Parliament intended to promote self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial export to England decreasing the colonies dependence on foreign imported goods
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Mercantilism
A form of economic nationalism that is used to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restricting trade practices
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Headright System
A legal grant of land that is given to settlers during the period of European colonization
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Bacon’s Rebellion
The first uprising in the American colonies (it happened in Virginia because Bacon wanted to remove all the natives from the colony)
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Mayflower Compact
An agreement created by the Mayflower passengers that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in the Plymouth Colony
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Great Awakening
A period when spirituality and religious devotion was revived in the American colonies from the 1730s-1770s
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Salem Witch Trials
Over 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts
Early Americas and Colonial Events - House of Burgesses
The first democratically elected legislative body in the British American colonies
Early Americas and Colonial Events - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Stated that the powers and limits of government and the Fundamental Orders was officially formed under the guidance of God unlike the Constitution of today
Early Americas and Colonial Events - John Peter Zenger Trial
John Peter Zenger was on trial for libel but after the defense by Andrew Hamilton the jury acquitted Zenger
World War II - Neutrality Act of 1939
This act lifted the arms embargo (ban on trading arms) and allows the U.S. to start trading arms with belligerent countries (G.B. and France) through cash and carry (U.S. isn’t isolated and is now trading cause Germany invaded Poland)
World War II - War Production Board (WPB)
Regulated the production, manufacturing, and allocation (distribution) of wartime goods (In charge of creating war shit and getting it to where it needs to be)
World War II - Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Created a max price on goods and limited the consumption of these goods (rations) (making sure people are rationing their shit)
World War II - National War Labor Board (NWLB)
Responsible for settling labor disputes to prevent strikes in the war industries (there to make sure production runs smoothly at home)
World War II - Smith-Connally Act
Allows the federal government to seize and operate industries that threaten war production due to work strikes (fuck you and your business if you’re not helping the war effort the government will do it)
World War II - Volunteer Service (WAVES)
Women made bandages, knitted/sewed clothes for soldiers, and ran canteen services for troops (women helping where they can or not in factories)
World War II - London Economic Conference
66 nations had a conference in London to organize and stabilize international currency rates but FDR pulled the U.S. out of it furthering the economic crisis around the world (66 countries wanted a stable world economy FDR was didn’t join in)
World War II - Douglas MacArthur
The general who commanded forces in the Pacific area on Asia he got the Medal of Honor (bros a good general and he’s decorated he’s more important in the 50s tho
Cold War - General Douglas MacArthur
He commanded troops during the Korean War he pushed North Korean forces back to the Yalu River he suggested bombing cities in China that were thought to be aiding North Korea and Truman fires him for this idea which Americans didn’t love (very decorated general offers a strategy to end the war quicker Truman doesn’t like it and dismissed him for insubordination)
Cold War - Whittaker Chambers
An American writer and intelligence agent who denounced his communism spying testified that Alger Hiss was secretly a communist while in federal service but Hiss denied this accusation (The Red Scare or the communist scare is going through the United States)
Cold War - Joe McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy launched the House of Un-American Committee (HUAC) which investigated citizens with ties to communism (he created HUAC to make sure Americans aren’t communist but who they accuse isn’t always correct)
Cold War - Allen Dulles
United States deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and one of the essential creator of the modern CIA (helped create todays CIA)
Cold War - Fidel Castro
Communist Dictator “President” of Cuba
Cold War - Nikita Khrushchev
Former president of the Soviet Union who denounced Stalin’s crimes and started a policy of de-Stalinization the Soviet Union and was inconsistent with communist ideology (he took over after Stalin and continued the Soviet Union he also funded the space program and he helped Cuba by placing missiles in Cuba to deter the U.S.)