APUSH QRT 1 WORDS

Encomienda System (week 1)

Labor system established by Spanish Crown in the colonies (week 1)

Pueblos (week 1)

Multi storied, apartment like dwellings lived in by the puebloans

Incas (week 1)

Advanced civilization that flourished in the Andes Region

Iriquois Confederation(week 1)

Powerful Alliance of 6 NA tribes in NE NA

Hispaniola (week 1)

1st places in the Americas colonized by Spain

Henry Navigator (week 1)

Promoted European expansion and had school of navigation

Middle Passage (week 1)

2nd leg of Triangular Trade

Joint Stock Company (week 1)

Business where ownership is divided into shares, investors purchase the shares

Conquistadors (week 1)

Spanish Explorers and soldiers who conquered parts of America

Aztecs (week 1)

powerful Meso American civilization that flourished in central Mexico

Pueblo Revolt (week 2)

Indians’ revolt against Spanish rule

New law of 1542 (week 2)

Spanish laws to regulate treatment of indiginous people- IT PROHIBITED SLAVERY

Bartolome de La Casa (week 2)

Historian who advocated for NA rights during Colonial Period

Virginia Company (week 2)

Pair of joint-stock companies chartered by King James I to establish colonies in NA

William Penn (week 2)

Found of Pennsylvania- refuge for QuakersJa

Jamestown (week 2)

1st permanent English settlement in NAPr

Providence(week 2)

Settlement (it’s in Rhode Island per mom) founded by Roger Williams

Separatists (week 2)

Group of English Protestants who sought to complete break away from Church of England

James Oglethorpe (week 2)

Founder of Georgia

Corporate Colonies (week 2)

Colonies granted by the king to 1 or more proprietors who had governing rights

Corporate Colonies (week 2)

Colonies established by the Joint-Stock companies where investors pooled money to fund colonization for profit

Virginia House of Burgesses (week 2)

1st Representative Assembly in the American Colonies

Dominion of New England (week 3)

Union of NE colonies imposed by King James to tighten royal control

Triangular Trade (week 3)

NE merchants shipped goods (textiles, guns and rum) in exchange for slaves

Navigation Acts (week 3)

Regulated Colonial trade to benefit mother country—→ everything passes through the English

Bacon’s Rebellion (week 3)

1676 uprising fueled by frontier tensions with Native Americans —→ SHIFT FROM INDENTURED TO SLAVES

New England Confederation (week 3)

Military Alliance between Massachusetts, Plymouth, etc. to provide security against native Americans

Wampanoag (week 3)

NA tribe in NE that did King Phillips’ war (1670s) against NE settlers—> REDUCED NATIVE POWER because they lost and many were sold into slavery

Headright System (week 3) 

Colonists received 50 acres of land for paying for   passage/sponsoring indentured servants

Indentured Servants (Week 3)

Poor English laborers who sigend contracts to work 4.7 years in exchange for passage to the Colonies

Ben Franklin  (Week 4)

American Enlightenment thinker; proposed Albany Plan and helped gain French support during American Revolution

Andrew Hamilton (Week 4)

Colonial lawyer who defended John Peter Zenger in 1735 trial——> which focused on freedom of the press

John Bartram (Week 4)

Colonial botanist and scientist; enlightenment spirit

Sectarian (Week 4)

Settlement based on religion, not politics or economics

Pontiac’s Rebellion (Week 4)

1763 NA uprising led by Pontiac against British and it showed Native Resistance

Proclamation of 1763 (Week 4)

Forbidding colonists from settling west of Appalacian mountains

Albany Plan of the Union (Week 4)

Failed attempt to unite the colonies for defense against threats (1754)

Salutary Neglect  (Week 4)

loosly enforcing trade laws in colonies 1763; COLONIAL SELF GOV

Religious Tolerance  (Week 4)

Allowance of diverse religious practices

Huguenots (Week 4)

French Protestants who fled Catholic persecution

Samuel Adams (Week 5)

Founder of Sons of Libery, advocate for Independence

Quartering Act (Week 5)

Colonists had to house and supply British troops

Townshend Act (Week 5)

Taxes on imports like glass, paper, tea

Quebec Act (Week 5)

Extended boundary to Ohio Valley—>religious freedom to Catholics

Lord Frederick North  (Week 5)

British Prime Minister during Revolutionary Era - He was responsible for the Intolerable Acts. Resigned after losing Revolutionary War

Thomas Paine (Week 5)

Argued for Independence by reading Common Sense

Social Contract (Week 5)

Government derived power from the consent of the governed (decisions have to align with the people that you’re governing)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Promoted Social Contract —→influenced revolution

Patrick Henry

Strong advocate for Independence. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH

Whigs (Week 5)

Political group in Britain that supported the Parliament (vs the King)

Joseph Galloway (Week 6)

Conservative delegate at CC who proposed plan to keep colonies under British rule

Olive Branch Petition (Week 6)

Professed loyalty to George asking him to stop hostilities

Paul Revere  (Week 6)

Warmed colonists “British are coming”

Battle of Saratoga (Week 6)

Convinced the French to ally with colonies —→ crucial military and financial support (1777)

Prohibitory Act (Week 6)

British Declared colonies in rebellion and cut off all trade with them (1775

Valley Forge (Week 6)

Winter encampment of the Continental Army- led by George W. Symbol of endurance that made the army a more effective force. 

1st Continental Congress (Week 6)

Meeting of 12 delegates in response to the Intolerable Acts

John Jay (Week 6)

Diplomat— Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris; co-author of Federalist Papers

Abigail Adams (Week 6)

Wife of John Adams; advocated women’s rights

Republican Motherhood  (Week 6)

The idea that women should stay home and raise their children to be virtuous citizens of the republic- gave women a political role in shaping the future

Northest Ordinance of 1785 (Week 7)

That organized Northwest territory method for admitting new states and prohibiting slavery

Shay’s Rebellion (Week 7)

Uprising by farmers processing high taxes and debt - weakness of articles of confederation

Articles of Confederation  (Week 7)

First constitution of US, weak central government and strong state government

Federalist Papers (Week 7)

Advocated for ratification of the US Constitution

Federalism (Week 7)

System of government were powers divided between central government and regional government

Commerical Compromise (Week 7)

Resolve of disputes between large and small states during constitutional convention regarding representation

James Madison (Week 7)

“father of the Constitution”- pivotal role in drafting US Constitution in

Virginia Plan (Week 7)

Proposal of the constitutional convention for strong national government with bicameral legislative

3/5 Compromise (Week 7)

Agreement reached during constitutional convention that counted to each slave is 3/5 of a person

Mount Vernon Conference (Week 7)

Meeting in 1785 between representatives from Maryland Virginia discuss navigation rights

Alien Act

President power of the detained non-citizens considered dangerous

Jay Treaty

resolved lingering inflicts from Revolution war- favored British trade but prevented war

Judiciary Act

laws that set up structure of federal court system- defined role of supreme court

John Adam’s

federalist, 2nd president remembered for alien and sedition acts and quasi-war

Democratic Republicans

party led by Jefferson- favored strong states and close ties with france

Gilbert Stuart

portrait painter most famous being Washington

Indian Intercourse Act

federal lows regulating trade and land purchases with Native Americans

Daniel Boone

frontiersmen who helped lead settlers into kentucky and western frontiers

Supreme Court

highest court in US created by constitution and organized by Judiciary Act of 1789

Treaty of Greenville

treaty between US and several Native nations after battle of fallen timbers. opened Northwest Territory to American settlement