Final 150 Flashcards
Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
To start on a fresh life
Virginia Company
A jointstock company that what got a charter and established James town
Jamestown
2nd settlement established by a joint stock company
John Smith
Governor of Jamestown for first 2 years
Pocahontas
A Native American women that was established with Jamestown
John Rolfe
Married Pocahontas
Tobacco
The crop that saved James town
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
Plymouth Colony
The colony of the pilgrims
Pilgrims
Separatist who came to the colony’s for religious freedom
Mayflower
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620
Mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen.
William Bradford
Leader of the pilgrims when they discovered America
Squanto and Samoset
They showed pilgrims how to grow corns beans and squash
Puritans
Protestants who wanted reform
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colony based on the Bible
John Winthrop
Was the groups governor
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
For disagreeing with puritans and then they formed rode island
Salem Witch Trials
Series of trials where girls got accused of being witches
William Penn
Found Pennsylvania
Quakers
they were tolerant of other people views
Pacifists
People who refuse to fight in wars or use force
James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony
First governor of Georgia
First Great Awakening
A religious revival that swept through the colony’s
Triangular Trade
A system where crops goods and slaves were traded
Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon
Join, or Die is a political cartoon, drawn by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754
John Peter Zenger Trial
The trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The New York Weekly Journal.
Cause of French and Indian War
both the British and French wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory
Proclamation of 1763
following Great Britain’s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War, which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16
The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter, and orator well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention:
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government
John Hancock
Was the first preside t to sign the doc
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance
in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776,Thomas Jefferson
Cause of American Revolutionary War
The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share of the war debt from the French and Indian War.
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.
Patriots
They were known as the rebels
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
Winter at Valley Forge
The particularly severe winter of 1777-1778
Battle of Yorktown
was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War, who fought for the American Continental Army
Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war
General George Washington,
Marquis de La Fayette
was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Friedrich von Steuben
was a Prussian and later an American military officer.
Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions
guerrilla warfare
Hit and run
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War on September 3, 1783. It was signed in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served with as its first constitution
Shays’ Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War
The Great Compromise
In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
