APUSH MP1 IDs MOST IMPORTANT

Most important IDs for mp1. Based on yawp ch 1,3,4,5,6. Full list: https://knowt.com/flashcards/45eb0dc9-37d8-49db-b1e8-b22af4dbf850

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement in North America founded in Virginia in 1607 by the Virginia Company; struggled at first but became successful after tobacco became a profitable cash crop; connects to tobacco trade plantation agriculture slavery and Bacon's Rebellion.

British Tobacco Trade

Trade system in which colonies such as Virginia and Maryland produced tobacco for export to Britain; made tobacco a major cash crop and encouraged plantation agriculture and enslaved labor.

Bacon's Rebellion

1676 uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley; revealed class tensions between wealthy planters and poorer colonists and helped encourage greater reliance on enslaved African labor.

Slave Codes

Colonial laws that defined enslaved Africans as property and restricted their rights movement and behavior; created a permanent legal system of racial slavery and strengthened the plantation economy.

Haudenosaunee

Confederacy of Indigenous nations in the Northeast including the Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga and Seneca; created a powerful political alliance and became an important force in diplomacy and warfare with European powers.

Navigation Acts

British laws regulating colonial trade and requiring certain goods to be transported on English ships or through English markets; represented mercantilism and increased colonial resentment toward British economic control.

Great Awakening

Religious revival movement that spread throughout the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s; emphasized personal faith emotional conversion and individual religious experience while challenging established religious authority.

Jonathan Edwards

New England preacher and major figure of the Great Awakening; used powerful sermons to emphasize human sinfulness and the need for personal religious conversion; represents the emotional revivalism of the Great Awakening.

George Whitefield

English evangelical preacher who traveled throughout the American colonies during the Great Awakening; attracted huge crowds and spread revivalism across colonial regions.

Enlightenment

Intellectual movement emphasizing reason science natural laws and individual rights; encouraged people to question traditional authority and influenced American political ideas about government and liberty.

John Locke

Enlightenment philosopher who argued that people have natural rights such as life liberty and property and that government receives its authority from the consent of the governed; his ideas strongly influenced the Declaration of Independence.

Seven Years' War

Global conflict from 1756 to 1763 between Britain France and their allies; Britain won North America but gained massive debt which led Britain to impose new taxes and restrictions on the colonies.

Pontiac's War

Indigenous resistance movement against British control and settlement in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley after the Seven Years' War; demonstrated Indigenous resistance to British expansion and contributed to the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

Royal Proclamation of 1763

British order prohibiting colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains after the Seven Years' War; intended to reduce conflict with Indigenous peoples but angered colonists who wanted western land.

Stamp Act

1765 British tax requiring stamps on newspapers legal documents licenses and other printed materials; caused widespread colonial resistance and popularized the argument of taxation without representation.

Sons of Liberty

Colonial resistance organization that opposed British taxation through protests boycotts and political pressure; played major roles in resistance to the Stamp Act and later organized opposition to the Tea Act.

Coercive Acts

1774 British laws punishing Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party; colonists viewed them as an attack on their rights and they helped unite the colonies against Britain.

Lexington and Concord

April 1775 battles between British troops and Massachusetts militia; marked the beginning of open armed conflict in the American Revolution and led to greater colonial support for the Revolutionary War.

Thomas Paine

Political writer who strongly supported American independence; his pamphlet Common Sense argued that monarchy was unreasonable and that the American colonies should become independent from Britain.

Common Sense

1776 pamphlet written by Thomas Paine arguing that the colonies should declare independence from Britain; made the argument for independence accessible to ordinary colonists and helped shift public opinion toward independence.

Declaration of Independence

1776 document adopted by the Second Continental Congress declaring the thirteen colonies independent from Britain; justified independence using Enlightenment ideas including natural rights social contract and consent of the governed.

Continental Congress

Meeting of colonial delegates that coordinated resistance to Britain and later directed the Revolutionary War; the First Continental Congress responded to the Coercive Acts while the Second Continental Congress managed the war and declared independence.