A.P. U.S. History (Musa)

What is a point in history that you can never cross?

A Turning Point

Which native tribe lived in what is now Illinois?

The Illini

Which native tribe lived next to the ocean, they farmed, fished, and hunted?

The Cherokee

Which native tribe built mounds?

The Pueblo

Which native tribe lived on lower elevation during winter, and higher elevation in the summer, and most likely farmed?

The Utes

Which trade brought goods between the two hemisphere?

The Columbian Exchange

Name three things brought from Europe to the Americas.

Horses, Honeybees, and Smallpox

Name a good brought from the Americas to Europe.

Pumpkins

Which farming method includes farming corn, beans, and squash?

The Three Sisters Farming Method

What was corn also known as in the Americas?

Maize

Who organized an attempted expedition, but not necessarily colonization, in 1585 to North Carolina's Roanoake Island, but mysteriously dissapeared?

Sir Walter Raleigh

What was the non-existant water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

The Northwest Passage

In 1607, what was the first permanent colony in the Americas?

Jamestown

Jamestown was financed by which organization?

The Virginia Company

Which time was used to refer to the first winter of Jamestown where 550/600 people died?

The Starving Time

Which individual perfected growing tobacco in Virginia?

John Rolfe

Which crop became so prominent in Virgina it became the primary industry to the point where they had to import foods?

Tobacco

Which document was the first political document of the colonies?

The Mayflower Compact

Which status were individuals under whom worked for free for 5-10 years in exchange for transport to the colonies?

Indentured Servitude

Slavery in which continent was niether heriditary nor racial?

Africa

What are the three characteristics of Western Slavery?

Heriditary, Permanent, Racial

What is the name for the common peoples with money of America who made laws?

Burgesses

Under which document does western land ownership follow?

The Lex Salica

The Lex Salica maintains 3 conditions of ownership. What are they?

A Receipt, Settling the Land, Improving The Land

Which European country was not interested in permanent settlements, or converting Natives, but only short term gains?

France

Which European country had interest in permanent settlements, but not in converting Natives?

England

Which country was interested in permanent settlements and converting Natives?

Spain

Which Spanish-Portugeese Treaty divided the Heathen Lands between the two which gave Portugal less New World Lands but more African Lands?

The Treaty of Tordesillas

What was the new Spanish hierarchy which put African slaves at the bottom and Natives above them, and further rewarded the Spanish conquest in Christianizing the Natives?

The Encomienda System

Which uprising seperated Spain from Mexico for 50 years due to its remote location?

Pueblo’s Revolt

Which type of Christian follows the Bishop of Rome, or the Pope?

Catholics

Which type of Christian follows Martin Luther’s seperatist ideas of self-interpretation of scripture.

Protestants

Which type of Christian follows the Church of England?

Englicans

Which type of Christians beleive in free will?

Armenians

Which type of Christian beleives in Predestination?

Calvinists

What type of Christian is and English Calvinist who wants to purify the Church of England from Catholic influences?

Puritans

What is the term for how historical interpretations change over time?

Historiography

What would enable a person to vote in the early colonies?

A Public Convertion Experience

Who was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

William Bradford

Who was the English speaking native who taught the Pilgrims and creates the first Thanksgivings?

Squanto

Who beleived in a “City Utop A Hill”, and is a non-seperatist who wants to Purify the church of England?

John Winthrop

Who was the extreme seperatist who hated the Church of England and the King?

Roger Williams

Who was the banished antinominalist who beleived that no preacher, church, or sermon will get you into heaven because of predestination?

Anne Hutchinson

Who wrote “The Protestant Work Ethic and The Spirit of Capitilism’, and beleived that the American Calvinist commandment to work evolved into the capitalist spirit?

Max Weber

What was the first true constitution in the colonies?

The Fundemental Orders of Conneticut

Which war was fought over land between the English and the Indians, and lasted from 1622-1644.

The Pequot Wars

What was the concept of a Husband and Wife being united under one legal unit lead by the man?

Covertature

Who was the Boston woman who employed over 90 women and documented 900 children she helped as a mid-wife?

Martha Ballard

What was the beleif that a womans job is to instill republican values in her children?

Republican Motherhood

What was the beleif that lead sociatal expectations of women during colonial times?

Cult of Domesticity

What was the English Practice of ignoring the colonies and letting them do their own thing?

Salutary Neglect

Which social movement saw a colonial greater participation in chruch activities?

The First Great Awakening

Which First Great Awakening Pastor delivered the speech "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", and is an Old Light Minister?

Jonathan Edwards

Who is the first important New Light Minister, and beleives in loving people into heaven?

George Whitefield

You cannot use the word ‘Manufacturing’ before this year.

1783

French and English hostility (Not The French and Indian War) was ended by which treaty that set things back to how they were, and lead to a feeling of betrayal by the colonists?

The Second Treaty of Utrecht

Which war was fought over the Ohio River Valley between the British and French

The French and Indian War

What year ended the French and Indian War?

1763

What year was a proclamation line created on the Appalachian Mpuntains?

1763

What year was The Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War?

1783

What year was the current constitution written?

1787

The French and Indian War began when this person lead some troops to shoot some Frenchmen (lowk prob deserved it, they french).

George Washington

What was the British replacement for Colonial courts and Colonial Judges, which angered the Colonists.

Admiralty Courts

What was the name for the act enacting a tax on all newspapers, playing cards, legal documents, and pamphlets.

The Stamp Act

Which organization met in New York to find a way to repeal the Stamp Act

The Stamp Act Congress

Which British Act ensured the Colonies could only purchase sugars from England?

The Sugar Act

Which British act requires colonists to house British troops?

The Quartering Act

Which 1770 tragedy involved the killing of 5 innocent colonists, including Crispus Attikus by Britsh troops?

The Boston Massacre

Which organization founded by Samuel Adams burned property and tarred and feathered tax collecters?

The Sons Of Liberty

Which individual founded The Sons of Liberty, and opposed taxation without representation?

Samuel Adams

Which individual defends the 8 officers in the Boston Massacre to ensure a fair trial?

John Adams

Which organization hosted 56 colonial delegates in writing a list of greivances to King George the Third?

The First Contenental Congress

Which framework preceded the Constitution, and failed because of a lack of power to tax?

The Articles of Confederation

What was the rebellion that proved the failure of the Articles of Confederation, and was because an individual didn't beleive he should have to pay taxes?

Shay’s Rebellion

What compromise solved the issue of whether slaves should be counted as people in the census?

The 3/5ths Compromise

Which pamphlet written by Thomas Paine tried to convince the colonists that the relationship between the King and the Colonies was no longer acceptable?

Common Sense

1783-1789 is referred to as what? This is the period under which the U.S is under the articles of confederation.

The Critical Period

Federalists, such as Hamilton, beleive in what interpretation of the Constitution?

Loose Constructionist

Anti-Federalists, such as Thomas Jefferson, beleive in what interpretation of the Consitution?

Strict Constructionist

Which rebellion stemmed from an opposition to a tax on Whiskey?

The Whiskey Rebellion

Washington’s beleif in no foreign entanglements is called what?

Washington’s Neutrality Policy

During which event involving the French did we refuse to pay French bribes, stating "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute"?

The XYZ Affair

Which treaty with the British did we restore trade with them, but refuse to be exclusive trading partners?

Jay’s Treaty

Which unpopular acts served to silence all critisms of John Adams and the Federalists?

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Thomas Jefferson and Madison wrote what in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts?

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

The Virginia Kentucky Resolutions estabilished what power of the states to allow states to not follow unconstitutional laws?

Nullification

What was the act that made the judiciary branch?

The Judiciary Act of 1789

Adams, before leaving office, appointed a bunch of judges who were called what?

The Midnight Judges

When one of the Midnight Judges sued the Jefferson administration, what was the name of the case that reached the supreme court?

Marbury v. Madison

What is the principal allowing the courts to determine whether laws are constitutional?

Judicial Review

What was the name of the act which sold lands to Americans west of the Appalaichans?

The Land Act of 1800

Which of Jefferson’s Acts outlawed trade with foreign contries?

The Embargo Act of 1807

Which act outlawed the importation of slaves as of 1808?

The Slave Trade Act of 1807

Which of Madison’s acts banned trade with England and France?

The Non-Intercourse Act

What was the name of the group of three idealogically opposed senators who ran American politics from 1810-1850?

The Great Triumvirate

What member of the Great Triumvirate was from Kentucky, and was uncomfortable with Slavery?

Henry Clay

What member of the Great Triumvirate was from South Carolina and was extremely pro-slavery?

John C. Calhoun

Which member of the Great Triumvirate was from Massachussetts and was anti-slavery?

Daniel Webster

Which war was fought over impressment?

The War of 1812

Who trained U.S. soilders for The War of 1812, The Mexican American War, and The Civil War?

Winfield Scott