APUSH Ch 4-5 Test Review

Main destination for most enslaved West Africans (it was NOT the Southern Colonies)

West Indies or Brazil

Main place where Colonists sold their exports

West Indies

Breaking its monopoly reduced the price for slaves

Royal African Company

One colonial region where the focus was on commercial farming

South, Pennsylvania, NY

According to your text,  one of the biggest barriers to industrial growth in the colonies (it was NOT British regulation)

lack of labor, small domestic market, lack of transportation

This side won most of the early battles of the French and Indian War

France

Key Native American group in the French/British Struggle for the Ohio Valley

Iroquois

Key British Prime Minister who provided the critical leadership for victory

William Pitt

One of three earlier indecisive wars between France and Britain

King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War

One of two outstanding British military commanders in the French and Indian War

Amherst, Wolfe

This colonial region’s healthy environment promoted population growth and stable families even though there was little immigration here

New England

Bacon’s Rebellion grew out of unrest within this group of newly arrivals from England

Indentured Servants

Largest, non-English, non-African immigrant group of the 18th century

Scots-Irish

Earliest non-English immigrants were these French Protestants, kicked out of France in the 1680’s

Huguenots

In this colony the majority of the population was of African descent

South Carolina

Tax law that set off widespread protest in 1765

Stamp Act

The driving factor in the crisis of the 1760s was this legacy from the French and Indian War

Debt

Other than taxes, these military laws further angered the colonists

Mutiny laws or Quartering Acts

He organized the Stamp Act Congress to promote a unified colonial protest

James Otis

The British financial official who, according to your text, was MOST responsible for the crisis of the 1760’s

George Grenville

Battle here ended British resistance to independence

Yorktown

Turning point battle that led to the French Alliance

Saratoga

After a difficult beginning, the British gave up and evacuated this colonial city in March, 1776

Boston

Focus of combat was on this colonial region in after 1778

South

First major defeat for Washington, it almost wiped out the Colonial Army

New York

He articulated the goals of independence in an easy-to-understand way

Thomas Paine

The pattern of land division in this shape became the characteristic of most US cities after the 1785 land act

Rectangular

The philosopher whose ideas were behind most of the Declaration of Independence

John Locke

Initially, he supported a reconciliation with Britain at the Second Continental Congress

John Dickenson

This treaty forced the Miami to surrender most of their land in Ohio to the Federal Gov’t

Treaty of Greenville

Many books have been written about this religious hysteria of the 1690s

Salem Witch Trials

The pattern of inheritance tended to encourage the formation of new towns in New England

Divide land between all sons equally

Religious revival of 1730s and 40s - it stressed individual conversion

Great Awakening

This intellectual movement of the 1740s and 50s encouraged reason and education

Enlightenment

When living on large plantations, African slaves were better able to do ths

Establish their own culture

This 1773 law was designed to save the East India Company from Bankruptcy

Tea Act

Collection of laws to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

Coercive or Intolerable Acts

12 colony meeting in 1774 in response to heightening crisis from the Boston Tea Party

First continental Congress

This group of colonial women urged their compatriots to Do without tea or British made goods

Daughters of liberty

Beginning in Virginia in 1774, these groups promoted intercolonial cooperation in response to British Action

Committees of correspondence

Largest slave rebellion in colonial America was attempted in this South Carolina town

Stono

Central to colonial trade and industry were these kinds of cities

Ports

Winston Churchill referred to this conflict as the first “world war”

French & Indian War

The main issue in the historians debate over slavery has been whether this was a cause or result of slavery

Racism

Other than the Bible, this book was the most frequently owned book in colonial America

Almanac

The idea that parliament represents everyone in the empire, even if they didn’t personally vote for a member

Virtual Representation

The foundation of democracy in New England was this meeting

Town meeting

According to the text, a key meeting place to exchange political ideas, news, and political protests

Tavern

According to the text, one of the two unfortunate qualities of King George III

Removal of stable Whig ministry in politics, intellectual and psychological limitations

Name for Ben Franklin’s failed plan for intercolonial union in 1754, on the eve of the French & Indian War

Albany Plan

Main effect of the war on slavery

Abolition in the North

Loss of this trading partner was hurtful to the US

British West indies

In order to negotiate the Treaty of Paris, the US temporarily abandoned this ally

France

This tribe was divided and shattered as a result of the Battle of Oriskany

Iroquois

These pacifist Christians were widely criticized during the Revolution

Quakers

This missing power in the Articles of Confederation created a weak government

Taxation

His uprising in 1786 turned many against the Articles of Confederation

Daniel Shays

The law provided a method to create new states from the Western Territories

NW Ordinance

This nation never respected US navigation rights on the Mississippi River or New Orleans

Spain

Along with Hamilton and Madison, he urged the states to accept a 5% tax on imports to pay the national debt

Robert Morris