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AP US History Unit 1 Exam Questions
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Walter Raleigh - Answer>> Founder of England's first American colony. (Roanoke, it failed) Elizabeth I - Answer>> English Queen during golden age. Reestablished Protestantism as the state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Treaty of Tordesillas - Answer>> a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. Pocahontas - Answer>> a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown. Marriage to John Rolfe = first interracial union in america= Peace settlement ending the Anglo-Powhatan War John Rolfe - Answer>> He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. Defeat of the Spanish Armada - Answer>> 1588 by Elizabeth 1 of England, English naval supremacy.
john smith - Answer>> Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. Jamestown - Answer>> Founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London.elected Captain John Smith as their leader. Thomas Dale - Answer>> Made governor of Jamestown after John Smith, stern, didn't believe in laziness, created daily schedule John Calvin - Answer>> INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: emphasized predestination and he rejected the medieval Church. he believed that the church and state should be united under the Calvinist faith John Winthrop - Answer>> Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a "city upon a hill" (covenant theology) Peter Stuyvesant - Answer>> The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (netherland?), hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664. Anne Hutchinson - Answer>> A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and
- She challenged the principles of Massachusetts's
colonists formed the alliance without the English crown's authorization. Patroonships - Answer>> Vast estates along the Hudson River established by the Dutch. They had difficulty attracting peasant labor, and most were not successful. William Penn - Answer>> Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) Jeremiads - Answer>> Puritan preachers Taking their cue from the doom-saying Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, earnest preachers scolded parishioners for their waning piety.Scared people off, decline of puritanism Glorious Revolution 1688 - Answer>> Bloodless overthrow of King James II. established William and Mary as the new leaders. Great Puritan Migration - Answer>> Many Puritans migrated from England to North America during the 1620s to the 1640s due to belief that the Church of England was beyond reform. Eg 1630 group of puritans led by john winthrop found MA Bay Colony Fundamental Orders - Answer>> In 1639 the Connecticut River colony settlers had an open meeting and they established a constitution called the Fundamental Orders. It made a Democratic government. It was the firdst constitution in the colonies and was a beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions.
Treaty of Utrecht - Answer>> 1713, ended Queen Ann's War, transferred large areas of French territory in North America to English including Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Bacon's Rebellion - Answer>> Indentured servants in Virginia revolt against gov and landowners (origionally over lack of protection from indians on frontier). burn Jamestown. look to african slaves as less troublesome source of labor Middle passage - Answer>> the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the Americas Salem witch trials - Answer>> Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational trials in Salem, Massachusetts at which Cotton Mather presided as the chief judge. 18 people were hanged as witches. Terrible mistake, shows social tensions, decline of puritanism. half way covenant - Answer>> response to decline of puritanism. The puritan practice where by parents who had been baptized but had not yet experienced conversion could bring their children before the church and have them baptized.weakend distinction between "elect" and others- dramatizied the difficulty of maintainignreligious devotion headright system - Answer>> Parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who
Jonathon edwards - Answer>> New light preatcher who started the first Great awakening John Peter Zenger - Answer>> "Zenger case", Newspaperman thrown in jail for accusing his colony's governor of wrongdoing, Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found innocent Paxton Revolt - Answer>> They were a group of Scots- Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina. Regulator Protests - Answer>> ??? Phyllis Wheatley - Answer>> 1st important African american writer. Abolitionists later point to her as proof that they are intellectually equal William Pitt - Answer>> The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies, and this is why England won the war.
Treaty of Paris 1763 - Answer>> Ended the French and Indian (7yrs) war. Britian dominated, French kicked out of N america Pontiac's Rebellion - Answer>> After French and Indian War, Indian chief gathered tribes in Ohio river valley to attack british forts. Squashed. Led to brit issuing proclamation of 1763 Proclamation of 1763 - Answer>> After 7yrs war and Pontiac's rebellion.A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east. Samuel de Champlain - Answer>> Cartographer, explorer, governor of New France, founder of Quebec. The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of "father of New France." Albany Congress - Answer>> 1754 congress between Iriquois and 7 colonies. Ensure continued Iriquoi loyalty to colonies (immediate) colonial unity (long termish) Battle of Quebec - Answer>> ??? Mercantilism - Answer>> economic theory, colonies exist for benefit of mother country, collect gold and silver, buy more goods that you sell
Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five americans Committees of Correspondence - Answer>> Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies Intolerable Acts - Answer>> in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses Quebec Act - Answer>> 1774 Same time as intolerable acts., designed to facilitate the incorporation of French Canadians into British America; Colonists feared a precedent had been established in the nonrepresentative government in Quebec; they resented the expansion of Quebec's territory, which they had been denied access by the Proclamation of 1763; they were offended by the Crown's recognition of Catholicism, since most Americans were Protestants Samuel Adams - Answer>> Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence The Association - Answer>> A document produced by the 1st Continental Congress in 1775 that called for a complete boycott of British goods. This included non-
importation, non-exportation and non-consumption. It was the closest approach to a written constitution yet from the colonies. It was hoped to bring back the days before Parliamentary taxation. Those who violated The Association in America were tarred and feathered Battles of Lexington and Concord - Answer>> Initiated the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and the British. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to Concord to stop the colonists who were loading arms. The next day, on April 19, 1775, the first shots were fired in Lexington, starting the war. The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston virtual representation - Answer>> british response to America's claim of "taxation without representation" said that each member of parliament represented all the british people Olive Branch Petition - Answer>> 2nd contenential congress. Still pledge loyalty to King George III but are still asking Britain to respect the rights and liberties of the colonies, repeal oppressive legislation, and British troops out of the colonies; George 3 didn't want anything to do with them and declared all colonies in a state of rebellion Navigation Acts - Answer>> Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
settlement. Organized the northwestern Indians in an alliance. Battle of Trenton - Answer>> On Christmas, Washingtons soilders cross the Deleware at night and surprise Hessians. Americans win Ben Franklin - Answer>> A delegate from Pennsylvania and proposed the "Albany Plan of the Union" as a way to strengthen colonies.sent to france to get alliance (LOVED by people there), negotiated treaty of paris, part of constitutional convention etc. Battle of Yorktown - Answer>> Sept 1781. British (general Cornwallis) surrendered, ending the war Treaty of Paris 1783 - Answer>> 1783 Februrary 3; American delegates Franklin, Adams, John Jays; they were instructed to follow the lead of France; John Jay makes side treaty with England; Independence of the US End of Loyalist persecution; colonies still had to repay its debt to England. America very lucky Land Ordinance of 1785 - Answer>> A major success of the Articles of Confederation. Provided for the orderly surveying and distribution of public land in the West that was ceded by the states Northwest Ordinance 1787 - Answer>> A major success of the Articles of Confederation. Set up the framework of a government for the Northwest territory. The Ordinance
provided that the Territory would be divided into 3 to 5 states, outlawed slavery in the Territory, and set 60,000 as the minimum population for statehood Shays' Rebellion - Answer>> this farmer uprising (mini war) in Massachusetts caused many to criticize the Articles of Confederation and admit the weak central government was not working; effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes New Jersey Plan - Answer>> At constitutional convention. Small state plan. Opposite of the Virginia Plan, it proposed a single-chamber congress in which each state had one vote. This created a conflict with representation between bigger states, who wanted control befitting their population, and smaller states, who didn't want to be bullied by larger states. Virginia Plan - Answer>> "large state plan" at constitutional convention. Virginia delegate James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population Connecticut Plan - Answer>> The Great Compromise; (proposed by Sherman of ct.) bicameral congress with equal representation in one house and proportional representation in the other house
