APUSH SEM 1 FINAL Flashcards
Maize and Impact
-Indian corn
-was a very important food source for many native American civilizations and was a pivotal point in their development
-led to sophistication of civilizations: transition from nomadic hunter gathers to settled agricultural villages
-developed agricultural practices and inventions
-a new world plant that revolutionized European diet and international economy
Encomineda System
allowed the government to give natives to colonists on the promise that they would christianize the natives
-slavery; Spanish colonists demanded tribute and forced labor from the natives they colonized
-implemented by conquistadors (legal pirates), and the system attibuted to their wealth
-negatively impacted native population decreasing their population causing a shit to African slave labor
Columbian exchange
-Transfer of goods, plants, foods, and dieseases between old world and new world
-post 1942
-world was never the same
-europeans marveled at and further explored the new world
-native plants/crops revolutionized the economy and European diet
-led to a boom in the African population thanks to food
-led to slave trade
-horses and disease brought to the new world
European contact with native americans
Spanish wanted ggg and had conquistadors– killed and christinized
English Colonizaiton (Spanish, English, French, Dutch)
spanish: violent, ggg
English: north, middle and south colonies– not nice
French: fur + better relations
Dutch: fur + better relations
Pueblo revolt
conquistadors abused the pueblo people they encountered during their jounery and claimed new mexico and tried to convert the natives to Christianity leading pueblo rebels to kill hundreds of Spaniards and destroyed all the churches in new mexico
-only successful native uprising
development of slavery (middle passage)
navigation acts
mercantilism
New England vs southern vs middle colonies
indentured servants and headright system
development of slavery in the Chesapeake region
religion in the colonies
city on a hill -John Winthrop
johns: smith, Rolfe, Winthrop, edwards
Salem witch trials
Growth in population and immigration
establishment of economic systems
new England vs southern colonies
growth of middle colonies
new England vs middle vs southern colonies
enlightenment and Impact on colonial development
British government in American colonies (virtual rep. vs direct rep)
Albany congress and Albany plan
French and Indian war
proclamation of 1763
treaty of Paris 1763
first continental congress
second continental congress
olive branch petetion
Thomas Paine and common sense
republicanism
causes of revolutionary war
declaration of independance
loyalists and patriots
key people of the revolution
treaty of Paris 1783
republican motherhood
shay’s rebellion
articles of confederation
1787 constitutional convention
great compromise and 3/5 compromise
federalists and anti-federalists
hamiltons economic plan
creation of BUS
washington’s cabinet
jay’s treaty
pickney’s treaty