Test 1 Review Flashcards by Roman Lewis

Molasses, Tobacco, Rum

New England Exports

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capital of pennsylvania city of brotherly love. Greatest city in pennsylvania.

Philadelphia

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God; Father of Enlightenment

Benjamin Franklin

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Grenville; cut taxes on sugar in half but placed them on other things; anti-smuggling motive.

Sugar Act

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1st Slaves come to America in 1619.

Colonial Slavery

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Americans push back British twice. Third time they lose due to ammo loss and Joseph Warren dies at the hand of Gage.

Bunker Hill

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England’s first internal tax imposed on America, intended only to generate money for England ; pissed off Americans severely.

Stamp Act

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under edmund andross, elected assemblies authority in the colonies are demolished to reestablish their subordinate status, consolidating them into one large royal colony.

Dominion of New England

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Under Champlain, French colonized icy Quebec alll the way down to louisiana west of the appalachian mountains trifled with by Iroquois Indians the entire time. eventually made it to Louisiana.

New France

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French & Indian war between English and French over land. George Washington lost his first battles here.

Seven Years War

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Quakers in Pennsylvania; quake at the site of God.

Society of Friends

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Farmers v. Aristocracy; mad because their crappy land is getting attacked by Indians w/ no protection.

Bacon’s Rebellion

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act of smuggling prevention; everything coming/going to/from America had to 1. Be on an english ship 2. go by London to pay tax; Resulted in ineffective customs agent being placed in America.

Navigation Act of 1663

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Erik settles Greenland 985; Newfoundland/Cape Cod settled 1000-1001 A.D.; failed because Natives had nothing to be pillaged.

Norse Settlements

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Founded by William Penn’s Quaker commonwealth. encouraged people of all religion to live there.

Pennsylvania

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Mathematics and Astronomy for Calendar; 300-900 A.D.; Central America and Mexico; destroyed themselves by over-exploitation of resources, finished by Toltecs; city states.(Greek)

Maya

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Intolerable Acts; Pay for the tea America; Quartering Act; Quebec Act; Boston Port Act; Destroyed Self Governance (in Massachusetts) ; Gage establish army of 4000.

Coercive Acts

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Gage decides to kill founding fathers and disarm Americans at once; Fires at concord; Lexington is deserted; slaughtered on the return to Boston.

Lexington and Concord

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5 died, 8 wounded; Instigated by freed slave Crispus Attucks, Exaggerated amongst the colonies.

Boston Massacre

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Thomas Paine; Why should large America be under tiny England?; Rallied patriots.

Common Sense

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Freedom of the Press; criticized new york governor in the New York Weekly Journal. After being jailed for 10 months editors everywhere were more judgmental in their posts.

John Peter Zenger

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Ended French Empire in America. English took everything east of the mississippi. Spanish test everything west of the mississippi and louisiana. France kept guadalupe, france, martinique (carrbibean islands)

Treaty of Paris

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Though Parliament has conquered the Monarchy, colonists will still be subjected to whatever they want.

Declaratory Act

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30 women killed, 300 accused of being witches. caused by children desiring attention.

Salem Witchcraft

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Animals: Iguanas, bison, cougars, armadillos, opossums, sloths, turkeys; Plants: potatoes (sweet and white), beans, corn, peanuts, chocolate, squash, chicle.

new World Plants and Animals

Way to come to America if you didn't have the money; work 7 years and gain freedom and land; still weren't allowed to vote.

Indentured Servant

Aztec King

Montezuma

Relinquishing of power from the Monarchy to Parliament; colonists also overthrow english dominion in America (Andross).

Glorious Revolution

1774;Philadelphia; Boycott of English Goods.

1st Continental Congress

Journey from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas packed like sardines. 1 in 6 slaves died (from disease/revolts)

Middle Passage

Precursor to corporation; rich guys get together and invest in America hoping for profit.

Joint-Stock Ventures

First colonized Limited to French catholics only. Quebec, friendly with indians. lived mostly west of the appalachians before losing french and indian war. Fur Traded

French Colonist

privately owned by 1 person; contrary to JSVs.

Proprietary Colonies

Fueled by new sailing/navigation tech.; ambition for wealth + new territories; spread of Christianity; overcrowding of rural and urban areas. food from new world.

Expansion of Europe

Lockean Theory; Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Property.

John Locke

95 Theses; Criticized sale of indulgences (literally paying for sins); Emphasized direct relationship with God (anti-catholic church); Lutheranism God.

Martin Luther

French & Indian War

Colonial Wars

Puritan preacher got kicked out of Boston for liberal ideas (paying indians/separation of church and state); found Rhode Island.

Roger Williams

a formal agreement to abide by the laws made by the leaders of their own choosing, 1st form of written government

Mayflower Compact

1607 Virginia Company JSV; Saved by indians, John Smith, Pocahontas.

Jamestown

English Prime Minister won the French & Indian War.

William Pitt

sent rotten tea to America to sell for cheap and save English tea companies.

Tea Act of 1773

attempt to corral English after F&I war; NO ONE allowed west of appalachians "for protection".

Proclamation Line of 1763

English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the massachusetts bay colony under john winthrop in 1630

Puritans

Massachusetts, New Hampshire-Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island.

Northern Colonies

Virginia, North/South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland. Mostly Proprietary (Privately owned)

Southern Colonies

argued overr the rich land of the ohio river valley. started french and indian war.

British-French Conflicts

British take New York immediately due to their port.

New York

Italy born self taught innovationist; landed in salvador; thought lowly of indians (was a douche); Hero status in Spain; never reached Asia

Christopher Columbus

Grenville; most house British soldiers

Quartering Act

French Capital

Quebec

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Middle Colonies

Gilbert - Newfoundland, everyone died; Raleigh - Roanoke Island, abandoned.

Initial English Colonization

elected legislative assembly in Virginia;

House of Burgesses

Puritan separatists who broke completely from the church of england and sailed to the new world aboard the Mayflower, founding plymouth colony on cape cod in 1620.

Pilgrims

Only Indian Nation of Tribes to side with the British against the French; hated the French because they lost two generals.

Iroquois

Spanish priest ; 1st anti-purist/racist; writes Black Legend describing atrocious acts committed to Indians by Spanish, pointless.

Bartolome de las casas

50 acres per head for immigrants; voting status

Headright System

tobacco, rice, indigo, some sugar

Southern Exports

plantation owners in virginia, south carolina

Southern Gentry

Tobacco

17th Century Cash Crop

Animals: Horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens; Plants: Coffee, bananas, rice, wheat, melons, olives, wine grapes

old World Plants and Animals

Grenville; stopped colonists from printing paper money; had to revert to bartering.

Currency Act of 1764

Portugal mastered sailing due to strategic location + stolen techniques; Gama reached India established Portugal's power.

Exploration

Went against Puritans, moved near (now) new york city and was slaughtered by indians

Anne Hutchinson

13th century; Mexico City; Thrived on Jewelry (Silver); 5 million people when invaded by Spain; 1 ruler: Montezuma II (Roman)

Aztecs

Unlimited search warrant.

Writ of Assistance

Tells Spain that Texas success after a really uneventful journey.

Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Largest Invasion fleet ever (18000) to defeat Mary Queen of Scots; Lost because England was faster and random storm (God's intervention).

Spanish Armada

1776; Written by Thomas Jefferson modeled after Locke; Declared colonies independent of England.

Declaration of Independence