History midterm Flashcards
3 types of colonies; describe them
Charter colony: Has received a charter from the king to create a colony
Proprietary colony: Land grants given by the king
Royal colony: Owned and controlled by king
3 regions of the colonies; compare and contrast
New England Colonies: ship-building, fishing lumbering
Middle Colonies: multiple different grains; known as breadbasket colonies
Southern Colonies: tobacco, indigo, cotton
Joint stock company
a business owned by its investors; the more you invest the more you own
Puritans
Group of people that wanted to purify the Church of England
Mayflower Compact
A charter written and signed by the passengers of the Mayflower; The first form of self government in America
Separatists
A group of people that wanted to separate from the Church of England completely
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
A document that outlined the powers of the government in Connecticut; important because it laid out the frame work for the contitutions of other states
How did slave families look different than colonial families
Slave families were often separated so they had to find any sort of link to family possible; kinship networks.
Indentured servant
Someone that worked for a certain amount of time to pay off an indenture often with promise of some resources to kickstart their own business
Salem Witch Trials
series of hearings and executions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Salem Massachusetts
Great Awakening
religious revival in colonial America; significant because, It put more emphasis on behaving morally
George Whitefield
Preacher during the great awakening; considered to be the central figure
Jonathan Edwards
Preacher during the great awakening; famously preached “sinners in the hands of an angry God”
Deism
belief that God is like a clockmaker who created the world and then just kind of let do its own thing
Sons of Liberty
A group of patriotic men who opposed British rule and held protests and riots
Minutemen
Men ready to fight at a moments notice
Boston Massacre
An incident in which some men were throwing rocks at soldiers and the soldiers killed 5 of them
intolerable acts
a series of acts passed by the British that the colonies considered intolerable.
Understand the acts and events that led to the greater conflict between Britain and the colonies after the French and Indian War.
3 phases of revolution and significant battles for each
New England Phase- Bunker hill
Middle Phase- Saratoga
Southern Phase- Yorktown
Know the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Could not tax
Could not maintain an army or navy
Had no power to enforce laws
Significance of the Northwest ordinances
provided a specific method to create states, divided land equally, and slavery was not permitted throughout the region.
the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists for and against ratification of
the Constitution.
Federalists believed that a stronger national government would improve relationships between states and strengthen the nation. Anti-Federalists, on the other hand, worried that a federal government with more power would be prone to tyranny.
the Articles of the Constitution
Article I. Legislative Branch.
Article II. Executive Branch.
Article III. Judicial Branch.
Article IV. Relationships Between the States.
Article V. Amending the Constitution.
Article VI. National Supremacy Clause
Article VII. Ratification.
