APUSH QUARTER 1 Review

Question 1

William Bradford

Answer 1

A pilgrim, second governor of the Plymouth colony 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and led the pilgrims through drought, crop failure, and Indian attacks.

Question 2

Pilgrims and Puritans contrasted

Answer 2

Pilgrims were separatists who wanted to be free from the Anglican Church because they didn’t believe it could be changed so they fled. Puritans believed that the Church of England could be changed and went to the Americas to set up the perfect church.

Question 3

Massachusetts Bay colony

Answer 3

1629- King Charles gave puritans the right to settle and govern this colony in America. Established political freedom and a representative government.

Question 4

Puritan migration

Answer 4

Many puritans moved to Massachusetts between 1630-1640 and the colony grew 10 times its size.

Question 5

Anne Hutchinson,

Antinomianism

Answer 5

She believed that God communicated directly to the individual and not through church elders and was banished from Massachusetts for her “heresies” and she founded the New Hampshire colony in 1639

Question 6

Roger Williams, Rhode Island

Answer 6

1635- he left Massachusetts looking for religious freedom and purchased land from an Indian tribe so he could start his own colony, Rhode Island, that offered religious freedom.

Question 7

Half-way covenant

Answer 7

Allowed those who weren’t full embers of the Puritan church, to participate in some church events.

Question 8

Thomas Hooker

Answer 8

Clergyman, called father of American democracy, because he said people had right to choose church leaders.

Question 9

Fundamental orders of Connecticut

Answer 9

First constitution written in America. Set up local government for towns.

Question 10

New England confederation

Answer 10

1643- formed to provide defense for the four New England area colonies.

Question 11

King Phillips war

Answer 11

Indian chief, King Phillip, who waged war on New Hampshires colonists. Started when colonists tried to put Indians under their control. Colonists won.

Question 12

Dominion of New England

Answer 12

1686- British government combined the northern colonies so they could be ruled under one governor, Andros. 1692 colonists revolted against Andros because he was a douche.

Question 13

Virginia

Answer 13

Purpose- wanted to find profits like the Spanish had found in Mexico.
Problems- the natives fought them a lot and the people starved.
Went bankrupt
Successes- they had created a staple crop of tobacco under John Rolfe, and captain John smith had helped the colonists survive under his rule.

Question 14

Head right system

Answer 14

Groupings of 50 acre plots of land that brought indentured servants to the colony and others

Question 15

What happened in 1619?

Answer 15

Slavery began in Virginia, and the Virginia house of burgesses formed and would be the first legislative body in America

Question 16

Bacons rebellion

Answer 16

1676- Nathaniel bacon and other western Virginians rebelled after Berkeley, Virginias governor had given the Indians land after they attacked the westerners and bacon formed an army and attacked the Indians and then burned down Jamestown.

Question 17

Georgia, James Oglethorpe

Answer 17

Georgia was created as a barrier between Spanish Florida and the English Carolina. James Oglethorpe was the brute leader of the colony and forbade Catholicism, booze, and slaves. This led to colonist revolt and slavery was allowed.

Question 18

Staple crops in the south

Answer 18

Rice, tobacco, and indigo.

Question 19

John Locke

Answer 19

British theorist ho wrote Fundamental constitution for the Carolinas colony. Did not work. Believed that people were allowed to three unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property.

Question 20

Pennsylvania, William penn.

Answer 20

1681- colony formed for Quakers allowed religious freedom.

Question 21

The Mayflower Compact

Answer 21

1620-The first formal agreement for self-government in America. 41 men on the Mayflower signed it and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.