APush:Unit 1-Unit 3

Prince Henry the Navigator

This was the Portuguese Prince that gave steadfast financial and moral support to the navigators

Conquistadores

Spanish 'conqueror' or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G's: gold, God, and glory.

Columbian Exchange

An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Signed by Spain and Portugal, dividing the territories of the New World. Spain received the bulk of territory in the Americas, compensating Portugal with titles to lands in Africa and Asia.

DaGama, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cortés, La Salle, Pizarro, De Soto

early american conquistadors

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Spaniard who fought against the enslavement and colonial abuse of native Americans.

Sir. Walter Raleigh

founder of England's first American colony

. Protestant Reformation (1517)

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

Pueblo Rebellion

1680. A rebellion of the Pueblo Native Americans in New Mexico against the Spanish. They drove out the Spanish only to be taken over 12 years later.

Virginia Company /Jamestown 1607

first american colony that did not work directly under the crown

Powhatan / Pocahontas / John Smith / John Rolfe

glorification of a young native american girl which led to another man taking her to England to marry

House of Burgesses

Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618.

Indentured Servants

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

Plymouth / Mayflower / Pilgrims 1620

biggest settlement of British colonists looking for a new life

Mass Bay Colony 1630

Anne Hutchinson / Roger Williams / William Penn

religious reformers

Bacon's Rebellion 1676

rebellion due to the refusal of driving out the natives in Virgina

King Philip's War

the Narragansett were defeated and their chief killed, while the Wampanoag and their other allies were gradually subdued.

Great Awakening 1730s

Goal was to restore God centered view rather than Enlightenment view (humans control their own destiny)

French & Indian War (7 Years' War), 1754-1763

France fought with native Americans against the British for land

. Proclamation Act / Proclamation Line of 1763

prevented english men from settling on newly conquered lands in order to protect the indigenous tribes

Sugar Act and Stamp Act

tax on sugar and stamps

Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams, Stamp Act Congress

american freedom fighters that opposed British rule

Townshend Acts (including tax on Tea)

tax on tea and forcing british soldiers to be able to stay in colonists homes

Boston Massacre 1770

British soldiers fired on a couple of Americans

Boston Tea Party (December 1773) / "Intolerable Acts"

sons of liberty went aboard british ships and dumped tea out

Lexington & Concord April 19, 1775

the first major campaign of the revolutionary war

British had in-tell that the colonists had weapons, was a standoff

Bunker Hill MA, Saratoga NY, Yorktown VA

bloody battle that proved that reconciliation was no longer possible

Common Sense (T Paine), Dec. of Independence

TJ)T Paine- freedom from england; does not make sense that they are under british control

TJ-created a declaration of independence, listing constitutional rights and freedoms

Articles of Confederation

first U.S constitution -very weak gov

Land Ordinance 1785, Northwest Ordinance 1786

laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold

chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory

Shays' Rebellion, Constitutional Convention 1786-7

shays' Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War.

delegates from five states met at the Annapolis Convention and invited all states to a larger convention to be held in Philadelphia in 1787.

NJ Plan, VA Plan, Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise

Nj wanted states to be equally represented

VA wanted to have the larger states have more power

three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Federalists v. Anti-Federalists (Federalist Papers)

urged the ratification of the United States Constitution, which had been debated and drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

"Republican Motherhood"

women were responsible for the early education of the boys who would someday become voting citizens

GW Cabinet: Hamilton (Fed) v. Jefferson (Dem-Rep)

debate over a banking system Hamilton wanted to create a national bank

fed- federal gov

dem-rep-state gov

Whiskey Rebellion

people rebel due to tax on whiskey; in Pennsylvania

Adams (TJ as VP), Alien & Sedition Acts, VA/KY Resolutions

try to keep foreigners out of the U.S and you can be jailed for criticizing the gov

resolution- give power to the states to declare if a law was unconstitutional

Jay's Treaty, French Rev., Neutrality Proc., Farewell Address

Jay- ppl wanted to go war with the british because british were taking U.S ships but Jay thought it was a bad idea

French Rev-French wanted help but U.S wanted to stay neutral.

Farewell- don't entangle in foreign policy, don't become a 2 party country