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Study guide exam 2 | HIST 201 - US History I, Quizzes of United States History

Class: HIST 201 - US History I; Subject: History; University: Baton Rouge Community College; Term: Fall 2011;

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TERM 1
Mercantilism
DEFINITION 1
Mercantilism is the economic doctrine in which government
control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for
ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state.
TERM 2
The Navigation Acts
DEFINITION 2
The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament
in the seventeenth century. The Acts were originally aimed
at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by English
trade. The mercantilist theory behind the Navigation Acts
assumed that world trade was fixed and the colonies existed
for the parent country.
TERM 3
Bacon's rebellion
DEFINITION 3
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia
Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter,
Nathaniel Bacon.
TERM 4
The Boston Massacre
DEFINITION 4
The Boston Massacre, called The Incident on King Street by
the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men.
TERM 5
The Boston Tea Party
DEFINITION 5
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in
Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against
the British government and the monopolistic East India
Company that controlled all the tea imported into the
colonies.
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Mercantilism

Mercantilism is the economic doctrine in which government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state. TERM 2

The Navigation Acts

DEFINITION 2 The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. The Acts were originally aimed at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by English trade. The mercantilist theory behind the Navigation Acts assumed that world trade was fixed and the colonies existed for the parent country. TERM 3

Bacon's rebellion

DEFINITION 3 Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. TERM 4

The Boston Massacre

DEFINITION 4 The Boston Massacre, called The Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. TERM 5

The Boston Tea Party

DEFINITION 5 The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The Coercive Acts

Properly known as the Restraining Acts, the Coercive Acts, as they were popularly known in England, were introduced in 1774 by the new government of Lord North, who acted with the direct encouragement of George III. Several voices of caution had been raised in Parliament, particularly those of Edmund Burke and Lord Chatham, who feared that stern measures were charting a course no one really wanted to follow; their advice, however, was not heeded. This legislation's purpose was to restore order in Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Party and other acts of defiance. TERM 7

Common Sense

DEFINITION 7 Common Sense Realism or Scottish Common Sense Realism is a school of philosophy that originated in the ideas of Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and Dugald Stewart during the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment. TERM 8

Battle of Saratoga

DEFINITION 8 The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. TERM 9

The Northwest

Ordinance

DEFINITION 9 The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance or "The Ordinance of 1787") was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. TERM 10

Federalists

DEFINITION 10 The term federalist describes several political beliefs around the world.

Continental Congress

The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. TERM 17

Battle of Bunker Hill

DEFINITION 17 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. TERM 18

The Peace of Paris of 1783

DEFINITION 18 Finally, in February of 1783 George III issued his Proclamation of Cessation of Hostilities, culminating in the Peace Treaty of 1783. Signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, the agreement also known as the Paris Peace Treaty formally ended the United States War for Independence. Representing the United States were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, all of whom signed the treaty. In addition to giving formal recognition to the U.S., the nine articles that embodied the treaty: established U.S. boundaries, specified certain fishing rights, allowed creditors of each country to be paid by citizens of the other, restored the rights and property of Loyalists, opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations and provided for evacuation of all British forces. TERM 19

Articles of Confederation and perpetual union

DEFINITION 19 The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. TERM 20

Great Compromise

DEFINITION 20 The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.

Anti-federalists

Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. TERM 22

James

Madison

DEFINITION 22 James Madison (August 27, 1749 - March 6, 1812) was the first bishop of the Diocese of Virginia of The Episcopal Church in the United States, one of the first bishops to be consecrated to the new church after the American Revolution. TERM 23

the navigation

acts

DEFINITION 23 The Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1696 restricted American trade in the following ways; 1. Only British ships could transport imported and exported goods from the colonies. 2. The only people who were allowed to trade with the colonies had to be British citizens.

  1. Commodities such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton wool which were produced in the colonies could be exported only to British ports. TERM 24

the peace of

paris

DEFINITION 24 citizens of the other, restored the rights and property of Loyalists, opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations and provided for evacuation of all British forces.