Midterm (Early America)

Chhokia

a famous group made of people all over. Located in the southeast of Mississippi through (100-1350). No one knows why, but they disbanded and depopulated before the Europeans arrived.

Haudenosaunee

people who build extended house, more specifically longhouse. It is the destination of the Six Nations

Algonquian

relating a large family of Indigenous languages

Pueblo

a place that held Native Americans in the southwest known as a “town” or “village”

Imminent Sacred

things set apart for divine purpose

Consensus Governance

Use-Rights Based Land Tenure

Indigenous Gender Systems

Ferdinand and Isabella

Portugal

Taino

Christopher Columbus

Columbian Exchange

Indentured Servant

Captain John Smith

Nathaniel Bacon

Powhatan

White Lion

Tobacco

Massachusetts Bay

Puritanism

Anne Hutchinson

Roger Williams

John Winthrop

City on a Hill

Middle Passage

“Slave Coast”

Maroon Communities

Pontiac’s War

Quebec Act

George Washington

Fort Duquesne

Albany Convention

Tea Act

Sugar Act

Townshed Act

Stamp Act

The People Out of Doors

Coercive Acts

Gen. Thomas Gage

Olive Branch Petition

Second Continental Congress

Gen. George Washington

Confederation Congress/Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence

Treaty of Paris

Northwest Ordinance

Newburgh Conspiracy

Shays Rebellion

Necessary and Proper Clause

Three Fifths Clause

Full Faith and Credit Clause

Checks and Balances

republicanism

George Washington

Alexander Hamilton

First Bank of the Unites States

French Revolution

Whiskey Rebellion

Federalists

Bill of Rights

War of 1812

Alien and Sedition Laws

Deism

Louisiana Purchase

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Second Bank of the Unites States

First Party System

Tecumseh

Some common qualities that most sharply distinguish pre-contact indigenous cultures from our own were:

less specialization of work, commitment to consensus, absence of idea of ownership, idea of God as present in creation rather than as in a separate holy space

Leaders of European states were able to engage of exploration in the 1400s and 1500s because of:

new knowledge, new technologies, a cheap and available work force, and new capacities of more centralized states

One of the immediate results of the encounter between European explorers and Americans was:

the exchange of animals, plants, diseases

What were the relations between the Powhatan and the English from 1607- 1622?

How did the Massachusetts Bay colony treat dissidents like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchison?

Where, on the whole, did enslaved people come from, and where, on the whole, were they sent to?

What were the results of the Seven Years War in North America?

Tensions between colonists and British were largely about:

Land Use, Religion, and Money

Why did protests against Britain in the 1760s and 1770s turn into a war?

The Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederation in 1781 to formalize:

its powers

On the one hand, republican thinkers feared “tyranny”, the centralization of government’s power in the hand of:

one person who would be controlled by rules.

On the other hand, republican thinkers feared “democracy,” direct control of government by the masses, who they saw as:

uneducated and unwise

Federalism focused on economic growth and centralization, was skeptical about:

revolutionary France, and saw London as a model.

What international support did the revolutionaries receive in the war and how much did it matter?

The Republican presidents attempted to protect America’s democratic virtue by promoting:

family farming

The early nineteenth century saw the rise of party politics, as Federalists and Republicans fought one another in:

congress, newspapers, and public displays

Shawnee leader Tecumseh brought together indigenous groups to:

push back US expansion

The War of 1812 marked a more aggressive US position towards:

British Threats