U.S history dual credit #1 test

Colombian exchange

Columbus discovery initiated the kind of explosion in international commerce that a later age would call ‘‘globalization’’

Protestant Reformation

Catholics battling protestants for decade: to pull the church back to its earliest spirit and style without the bureaucracy of the Roman Catholic Church and what was perceived as its abuses of power.

Roanoke island

1585 on North Carolinas, off coast of Virginia. . It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization.

Spanish Armada

Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders

primogeniture

decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.

joint- stock company

a company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder invests some money in the company and, in turn, receives a share of the company's profits.

Virginia company

a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.

Charter

A legal document that grants rights and privileges to a specific group or organization during the 17th century

Jamestown

the first successful permanent English settlement in North America. It was established on May 14, 1607, The settlement was sponsored by the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company that sought to profit from the colonization of the New World

First Anglo-Powhatan War

three wars fought between settlers of the Colony of Virginia and the Powhatan People of Tsenacommacah in the early 17th century

Second anglo Powhatan war

pitting English colonists in Virginia against the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, led by Opitchapam and his brother (or close kinsman) Opechancanough.

House of Burgess’s

the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies

Act of toleration

*The Toleration Act of 1689 made by the Parliament of England gave all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics, freedom of worship, thus rewarding Protestant dissenters for their refusal to side with James II. They had to promise to be loyal to the British ruler and their heirs.

Barbados slave code

black slaves were chattel (property) and had no basic rights that they would have been entitled to under normal English common law.

Squatters

Someone who settles on land they do not own.

Tuscarona War

As European settlers encroached on Indian land to meet the needs of the growing colony of North Carolina, fought in North Carolina during the autumn of 1711 until 11 February 1715 between the British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora Native Americans

Yamasee Indians

a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.

buffer

. a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them.

Henry Vill

King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Henry established the Church of England in 1532. joint-stock companies.

Elizabeth first

Protestant Queen of England, made Protestism dominant in England. As a result, she intensified the Rivalry England had with Catholic Spain. Her traps crushed Irish uprising and confiscated their land, planing Protestant land lords, creating domestic issues that festered until the present day.

Sir Francis Drake

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada

Sir Walter Raleigh

One of the first English explorers to attempt to make an English Settlement in the new world.

James 1

English King that granted the charter to the Virginia Colony.
James River and Jamestown named after him.
Dislike tobacco and the independent ideals of the Virginia Colonist.
Imposed a stiff military regime on the Jamestown colony after surviving colonists boarded England bound ships in the spring of 1610.

Cap John Smith

1608 took over control of Jamestown
"Kidnapped" and forced into mock execution to be "saved" by Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas.
Act was meant to show Powhatan wanted peace.
Gave Order and discipline="no work, no food" policy

Powhatan

Chief of local Indians.
Wanted peaceful relations at first
Settlers took advantage and relations deteriorated

Pocahontas

Powhatan's daughter.
"saved" John Smith from execution
Married colonist John Rolfe which ended the first Anglo-Powhatan war in 1614.

Lod De la Warr

Leader of relief party arrived at Jamestown in 1610.

John Rofle

Child of tobacco
Virginia planter
1612 began to grow tobacco, cultivatio spread and created a economy that was profitable.
Colonist married to Pocahontas to end First Anglo-Powhatan war.

Lord Baltimore

Founded Maryland in 1634 as Catholic Haven.
Second plantation colony to be formed.
Gave huge estates to his Catholic relatives, but the poor who settled in MD were Protesttant creating friction.

Oliver Cromwell

a Parliamentary commander during the British Civil Wars and later became Lord Protecto

James Oglethorpe

Founded colony of Georgia 1733.
dynamic soldier-statesman
repelled Spanish attacks
used his own fortune to help with the colony
All Christians, except Catholics, enjoyed religious toleration.
Meant to be a second chance site for people in debt.

Predestination

The Puritan belief, preached by John Calvin, that, before birth, God has already chosen whether a person would attain salvation or be damned to Hell for eternity

Mayflower compact

The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. 2.

Navigation Laws

a series of laws that controlled trade and shipping between Great Britain and the American Colonies

Salutary neglect

an unwritten rule that encouraged British customs officials to allow American merchants to break the laws of the Navigation Acts. T

All Peeps in 1st col

Indentured servants

a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training.

Middle Passage

middle segment of the forced journey that slaves made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's

Salem witch

a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

Paxton Boy

a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks.

Triangular Trade

A series of triangular trade routes that carried British manufactured goods to Africa and the Colonies, Colonial products (like tobacco, indigo, sugar, and rice) to Europe, and Slaves from Africa to the New World. Northern Colonies participated in this trade too by shipping slaves south.

Great Awakening

a period of religious revival promoted by religious leaders such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards

Zenger trail

a landmark legal case in colonial America where John Peter Zenger, a newspaper publisher, was charged with seditious libel for criticizing the British government.

Royal colonies

A colony that was directly ruled by a monarch according to the laws of England.

propitiatory colonies

A colony in which 1 or more individuals remained ownership to their state's sanctions

Huguenots

a groups of French Protestants that lived from about 1560 to 1629.

French and Indian War(7 years old)

one foght between the French and Indian allies against the British and their Indian allies.

Albany congress

a gathering in Albany, New York of colonial representatives who met from June 19-July 10, 1754 to develop a treaty with Native Americans and plan the defense of the colonies against France.

Proclamation of 1763

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains,

Louis XIV

centralized the government of France, placing Paris as the center and capital, and unifying France

Samuel de champion

a French explorer who sailed to the West Indies, Mexico, and Panama.

Edward Braddock

a British commander during the French and Indian War

William Pitt

received a land grant from King Charles II, and used it to form a colony that would provide a haven for Quakers.

James Wolfe

prominent British officer during the French and Indian War

Pontiac

An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac.

Mercantilism

is an eco system that states colonies exist for the good of the mother county

5 reasons for Spain to win against K’s of NA

1.) disease

2.) Religion

3.) weapons

4.) tactics

5.) horses

Importance

1.) Portugal

2.) Spain

3.) France

4.) England

History

1.) Political

2.) Social

3.) economy

Common Law (uk)

1.) mans life, liberty or pro can’t be taken arbritarty

2.) if arrested entitled to habeas

3.) unwarranted search is not allowed

Intolerable acts

1.) closed Boston port until $ for tea

2.) col had to quarter

3.) UK off (who comm crimes) went to UK for trail

4.) took away self gov in MA

5.) queback act- give land W of App to France

2 philosophies

God has no part in the world

God is directly involved

How did this happen( 10 reasons)

1.) Fight on home ground ‘

2.) 3k distance

3.) cant conquer a Map

4.) Type of Weapons

5.) Giant Myth

6.) George Washington

7.) We won

8.) Others Nations help

9.) Never sent best first

10.) Lose support of population- can’t win

4 to stay united

1.) same language culture ‘

2.) geography

3.) no hostility

4.) Just finished war with each other