Blue Cards Flashcards by Lyndsay McClellan

Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.

James Madison

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Search for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge

Writs of assistance

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Political heavyweight to help revise and repair the Articles of Confederation.

Alexander Hamilton

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Americans cut off British charge.

Battle of Saratoga

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Revise of Articles of Confederation.

Constitutional Convention

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Urged to correct wrongs.

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

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Raising colonial military force.

Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Arms

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Last gesture of peace sent to Britian before total war.

Olive Branch Petition

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Ended American Revolution

Treaty of Paris

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Rose up during the summer of 1786 and demanded restitution and tax relief. (Shays Rebellion)

Daniel Shays

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Colonists who fought for independence from the British.

Patriots

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Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Tories.

Loyalists

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Colonists who sided with the British. Also known as Loyalists.

Tories

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French expand borders

Quebec Act

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Lowered the price of tax

Tea Act

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Maintained the right of the Crown to tax the colonies.

Declatory Act

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British soldiers stationed in colonist homes

Quartering Act

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Ended the French and Indian War

Peace of Paris

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Intimidated tax collectors by attacking their homes, burning them in effigy, and even tarring and feathering them.

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

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Sermon given by “New Light” preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1741. Churchgoers were told that God was angry with the sinners of the Earth.

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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This “New Light” preacher, started the Great Awakening.

John Edwards

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In 1692, Massachusetts was the site of witchcraft hysteria.

Salem

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Parliament overthrew King James II and replaced him with his daughter and Dutch husband.

Glorious Revolution

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Large numbers of Puritan families ventured across the Atlantic, seeking religious freedom and a fresh start

The Great Migration

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Appointed by Parliament as the successors of King James II.

William and Mary

Method established by the Spanish in order to enslave Native American populations.

Encomienda

First English settlement established by Sir Walter Raleigh in North America.

Roanoke

Spain and Portugal decided how Christopher Columbus's discoveries of the New World would be divided.

Treaty of Tordesillas

Movement against the Catholic Church

Protestant Reformation

The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a Puritan minister. "city upon a hill"

John Winthrop

Believed that God's chosen people were either predestined for Heaven or not, so they did not have to obey God's or man's law.

Anne Hutchinson

Introduced tobacco to Virginia farmers.

John Rolfe

Governor of the Virginia colony. Enraged the poor farmers in the backwoods by remaining friendly with the Native Americans.

Sir William Berkeley

Collective security from attack by surrounding Native American tribes.

New England Confederation

Puritans who felt that they needed to abandon the Church of England and set up a new church.

Separatists

Protested against the similarities between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.

Puritans

Also known as the Anglican Church. Broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created this Church.

Church of England

These Puritans believed they must remain within the Church of England to reform it.

Nonseperatists

"First constitution" in colonial America.

Fundamental Orders

Colonies existed to provide raw materials for the Mother coutry.

Mercantilism

Native Americans rebelled against Spanish government.

Pueblo Revolt

Gave non converted Puritans partial membership in the Church.

Halfway Covenant

"Inner light" (non-Puritans)

Quakers

Set aside a parcel of land for public education.

Land Ordinance of 1785

Can't settle past the Appalachian Mountians

Proclamation Act of 1763

First venture to settle in Jamestown

Virginia Compromise

Taxed sugar. Lost money through Triangular Trade

Sugar Act

Said we had no right to live on lands taken from the Native Americans. Discovered Rhode Island

Roger Williams

Established Calvinism. Said that we were predestined to heaven or hell

John Calvin

Religious freedom in Maryland

Act of Toleration

Aimed to bring colonies under stricter control.

Dominion of New England

Secular body in leadership

Mayflower Compact

Citizens set fire to Jamestown

Bacon's Rebellion

Lure to Pennsylvania for promises of freedom.

Holy Experiment

Called for confederation if countries

The Albany Plan of Union

Event in response to the Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

Angered about enforcement of the Quartering Act

Boston Massacre

Indians launched attack on colonial settlements from Michigan to Virginia.

Pontiac's Rebellion

9 of 13 colonies attended. Came to agreement that only colonial legislatures had authority to tax the colonists.

Stamp Act Congress

Challenged the rules of the kings; theory of natural rights

John Locke

Helped construct the Albany Plan of Union

Benjamin Franklin

Social structure's distance gap of the rich and poir

Stratification

For statehood, at least 60,000 people

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Necessary template for government

Articles of Confederation

Wanting freedom from Britain

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine believed that we should gain freedom from Britain. It advocates natural rights.

Common Sense

Demanded tax relief

Shay's Rebellion

Met to discuss the reactions of the Intolerable Acts.

First Continental Congress

Left the colonists alone. Britain didn't pay attention to them

Salutary Neglect

Wrote Common Sense. Wanted our independence from Britain.

Thomas Paine

Letting the French expand on our Ohio River Valley; French expanding boarders

Intolerable Acts

Leader of Bacon's Rebellion

Nathanial Bacon

His son established Maryland; wanted a safe haven

Lord Baltimore

Movement against Catholics

Protestant Reformation

Closed the Boston harbor until the tea was paid off

Coercive Acts

No distinction with internal and external tax

Massachusetts Circular Letter

Stamp on all papers show a tax had been paid

Stamp Act

Religious fever of the 1630s

Great Awakening

New England colonies provided fish lumber and manufactured goods; in return for molasses and African slaves

Triangular Trade

Indentured servant for 50 acres of land

Headright System

Revivalist ministers who emphasized emotive spirituality and encouraged missionary work among the natives.

New Light Preachers