US History Key Events and Terms

Vocabulary flashcards covering early American history concepts, acts, key events, and historical figures from the provided notes.

Navigation Acts (1651)

A series of English laws designed to control colonial trade and mercantilism.

Townshend Acts (1767)

British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on goods imported to the American colonies.

Embargo Act (1808)

A law passed by Congress prohibiting American ships from trading in foreign ports.

King Philip's War (1675-1676)

A conflict between Indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their Indigenous allies.

Mayflower Compact (1620)

The first governing document of Plymouth Colony written by the Male Separatists.

Maryland Toleration Act (1649)

A law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians in Maryland.

Great Compromise (1787-1788)

An agreement during the Constitutional Convention that combined elements of the New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan for state representation.

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798-1799)

Political statements taking the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

Anne Hutchinson (1637)

A Puritan spiritual adviser whose trial and religious views challenged established Puritan clergy in Massachusetts.

Glorious Rebellion / Revolution (1688)

The overthrow of King James II of England, leading to the restoration of parliamentary power and ascension of William and Mary.

Luther's 95 Theses (1517)

Propositions for debate written by Martin Luther that initiated the Protestant Reformation.

Pueblo Revolt (1680)

An uprising of Indigenous Pueblo people against Spanish colonizers in New Mexico.

Albany Plan of Union (1754)

A proposal introduced by Benjamin Franklin aiming to place the British North American colonies under a centralized union.

Shays' Rebellion (1786)

An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts by farmers reacting against state debt collection and taxation.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

A landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.

Salutary Neglect (1700-1763)

The unofficial British policy of lenient enforcement of parliamentary laws regarding the American colonies.

Declaratory Act (1766)

A declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act, asserting complete authority over the colonies.

Treaty of Greenville (1795)

A treaty between the United States and Native American tribes following the Battle of Fallen Timbers, establishing explicit territorial boundaries.

Bartolomé de Las Casas (1528)

A Spanish historian and Dominican friar known for opposing Spanish colonial atrocities against Indigenous peoples.

Bacon's Rebellion (1676)

An armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Virginia Governor William Berkeley.

Jonathan Edwards (1730s)

A preacher and theologian during the Great Awakening, famous for his sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'.

Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves (1808)

A United States federal law that banned the importation of new slaves into the country.

Townshend Acts 1767

Taxes on importations in the colonies and colonists responded by boycotting.

Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation 1775

Slaves freed for fighting for the British

Alien and Sedition Acts 1798

Unconstitutional acts against immigrants

Second Anglo Powhatan War 1622

Against the English and the Powhatans

Second Anglo - Dutch War 1665

English against the British, loses NY & NC

French and Indian War 1654-63

French and Indian vs British

XYZ Affair 1797

Adams sent people to France to stop impressement

Ratification of the Bill of Rights 1791

Ratified the bill of rights

remember the ladies 1775

Abigail Adam’s sent a letter to John Adam’s to tell him to consider the women

Whiskey Rebellion 1784

Rebelled against the whiskey tax

English Toleration Act 1689C

Colonies cannot purely be puritans

Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763

Effort by the Native Americans to get their land back

Committees of Correspondence 1760s

Opposition against the new British imposed taxes

Federalist Papers 1788

The papers that Hamilton, Jay, and Madison wrote