History

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Tenochtitlan

Location: Mexico

capital of the Aztec Empire in modern day mexico

Bartolomue DIas & Vasco da Gama

portuguese explorers/ Dias reached southern Africa/ Da Gama reached India F

Ferdinand Magellan

Spanish explorer/ first crew to sail all the way around the globe (circumnavigation)

Hernando de Soto

Spanish conquistador/splashing through the swamps of the southeast until the massive Mississippi river

Roanoke Colony (“The Lost Colony”)

Off the coast of North Carolina/ founded by Sir Walter Raleiph/Governed by John White

Characteristics of Virginia (colonial period)

settled at Jamestown/ famous for tobacco/ main political body was the house of burgesses

fransico coronado

spanish explorer/ explored the American southwest (modern-day arizona, New Mexico, Kansas)

Plymouth Colony

Located in Massachusetts/settled by the pilgrims/native ally was Squanto

Roger williams

Banished from Massachusetts/founded the colony of Rhode island

William Penn

Founder of Pennsylvania/settled by the quakers/capital city was Philadelphia

King philip’s war

located:New England (massachusetts)

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Stono Rebellion

Enslaved person revolt In South Carolina/rebels tried to flee south to Spanish

Navigation Acts

laws passed by Britain (England) to restrict colonial trade to British ships and ports

Great awakening

religious revival that swept all the 13 colonies/ led by preachers like Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield

Deism

enlightenment belief in a creator who does not intervene in the world/ followed by thinkers like Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson

french & indian war

global war fought between Britain & France/ ended with France losing all territory in north America

Boston tea party

protesters dressed as native Americans dumped British tea into the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts

First continental congress

colonial delegates met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to protest British taxes& organize boycotts

battle of Lexington & concord

the 1st military engagements of war, fought in Massachusetts "(“shot heard around the world”)

continental Army

formed by the 2nd continental Congress to fight Britain/ main general was George Washington

battle of saratoga

fought in NY/ major American victory that convinced France to enter the war as an ally

siege of Yorktown

final major battle of war fought in virginia/ george washington trapped the British with the help of the french navy

Articles of confederation

The 1st national gov/ loose League of friendship between the 13 states/ designed by congress to be weak with no power to tax

northwest ordinance of 1787

policy for admitting new states into the union/ explicitly forbade slavery in the old northwest territory

Shay’s Rebellion (1786)

armed revolt impoverished farmers in western massachuetts/ closed courthouses to stop foreclosures

constitutional convention (1787)

delegates met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/ James Madison (“Father of the constitution”)/ Alexander Hamilton supported a strong gov