APUSH Guide 2025 (In Progress)

France

-primarily focused on establishing trade with Native Americans

Spain

-brutalized and converted Native Americans to Christianity

3 G’s

-Gold, Glory, God

Corn

-nutrient-dense crop primarily responsible for the increased population of mesoamerican societies

Treaty of Tordesillas

treaty devised by the Pope

-split the world in half—Portugal on one side and Spain on the other

Virginia

-colonial economy that relied mostly on tobacco sales

-1st democratic body established in a colony

New England colonies

-rock terrain, infertile soil

-consisted mostly of small farms

-relied on fishing and shipping

-political system where prominent church members were also political figures

Mercantalism

-allowed the British gov to regulate what was sold/produced in the colonies

Caribbean Islands

-Where the majority of slave came through in the Middle passage

Proprietary Colony

-A type of colony given to one person/small group of people

Glorious Revolution

-Event in England leading to increasing desire for self-government in the colonies

Salutary Neglect

-relaxing of regulations on the colonies so they could grow economically to benefit England

First Great Awakening

-period of religious revival in the American colonies between 1730s-1770s

-influenced development of American society and culture

Maryland

-founded as a refuge for English Catholics

Anne Hutchinson

-banned from Massachusetts for violating Puritan religious doctrine

-was forced to Rhode Island

Pennsylvania

-colony established for Quakers

Protestant Reformation

-event splitting Christian church in two

-led to strong colonial competition

Virginia House of Burgesses

-1st democratically elected legislated body in the colonies

-played a significant role in colonial governing

-pushed for movement toward independence

Royal Colony

-Ruled directly by British gov

Charter Colony

-Make their own laws with British approval

Triangular Trade/South Atlantic System

-responsible for growth of tobacco, sugar, molasses…etc

-enhanced Europe’s prosperity

Enlightenment Ideas

-natural rights and consent of the governed

-questioning scientifically why something happens

French and Indian War (7 Years War)

-tensions between French and British colonists to expand sphere of influence

-first global conflict

-anti-British sentiment grew

-end of salutary neglect

Albany Congress

-repair trade relations w/ Native Americans

-Secure alliances

-no colonies approve

-”join or die” cartoon

Effects of the 7 Years War on Britain

-Increase empire in Americas

-Enlarged England’s debt

-British contempt for colonials

Effects of the War on Colonists

-United against a common enemy

-King George kept a standing army in the colonies

-Created bitter feelings toward British

Proclamation Line of 1763

-banned settlements West of Appalachians (Spanish Territory)

Stamp Act Crisis

-Virginia Resolves

-House of Burgesses

-Virginia—oldest BRITISH colony

-challenge toward British rule—one of the first Acts of open revolution to British law