Untitled Flashcards Set

Columbus / Exploration (1491 - 1607)

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular trade

• Middle Passage

• Disease (Smallpox)

• Powhatan, Iroquois, Narragansett

• France, Spain, and England came for materials

• France views Indians as trading partners, Spain views Indians as religious conversions, England views Indians as savages.

• Indentured servants> Bacon’s Rebellion

Colonial Period (1607 - 1754)

Jamestown

Joint Stock companies

Pocahontas/ Powhatan tribe

John Smith

John Rolfe

Tobacco

Cash crops

Indentured servants

The starving time

Headright system

House of Burgesses

Slave trade

Triangular Trade

Immigration

Middle Passage 

Drought

Bacon’s Rebellion - Transition from indentured servitude to slavery

Trade with Natives

War with Natives 

Maryland Toleration Act

Lord Baltimore

George Calvort

Slave labor

New England

Separatists / Pilgrims

Mayflower

Puritans

John Winthrop

Slavery in New England

William Bradford

Calvinism

John Calvin

The Great Awakening

“City upon a hill”

Anne Hutchinson

King Philip’s War

Roger Williams

Salem Witch Trials

Quakers

William Penn

Popes Revolt

Dominion of New England

French America

Proprietary Carolina

Differences between North and South

Glorious Revolution - British relax influence

Navigation Acts

American Revolution

Causes - political, economic, social

• French and Indian War - causes

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Taxation without representation

• Debt from French and Indian war. 

• Salutary neglect

• Townshend acts (Indirect) 

• Boycott

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable acts 

  • Quartering Acts

  • Port Act

  • Justice Act

  • Government Act

• Stamp Act (Direct Tax)

• Admiralty Courts

• Declaration Act

• Sons of Liberty

• Declaration of Rights and Grievances

• George Washington 

• King of England 

• Boston Massacre

• Olive Branch Petition & Letters from a Pennsylvanian Farmer (John Dickinson)

• Crossing the Delaware 

• Hessian mercenaries

• The Lee Resolution

• Declaration of Independence

  • Principles of American Independence

  • Enlightenment ideals

• Republican Motherhood

• Slavery and the Revolution

• Native Americans and the Revolution

• Lexington & Concord

• Guerilla Tactics

• Saratoga

• Friedrich Von Steuben

• Battle of Yorktown

US Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

  • Weaknesses

  • Shays’s Rebellion

• Necessary and proper clause

• Ex post facto

• Debates surrounding representation (population or equal)

• Great compromise

• Bill of rights

• Anti Federalists v.s. Federalists

• Federalist Papers, ratification

• State power

• Habeas Corpus

• Powers of house, Senate and President

• Terms of house/Senate/ President

• Salary of house/Senate/President

• Checks and balances

• Power of each branch

• Supremacy clause

• Writ of Certiorari

• Bill of Attainder

• Impeachment

• Treason

• Electoral college

• Succesion procedure

• Federal courts

• Relationship among states

• Amendment Process

• Procedure of admitting new states to the union

Federalist Period (1789 - 1800)

• Fallen Timbers

• Hamilton v. Jefferson

  • Hamilton for strong central gov’t and mercantilist economy, loose interpretation of Const.; sympathetic to British

  • Jefferson for an agrarian society, States rights, strict interpretation of Const.; support for French Revolutionaries

  • Hamilton wants National Bank to manage commerce

  • Jefferson doesn’t see Bank as necessary or proper

• Whiskey Rebellion

  • Shows newfound strength of national gov’t 

• Declaration of Neutrality in the war between Britain and France

• Genet affair

  • Citizen Genet, an ambassador of France tries to recruit Americans for the war in France, which we had declared neutrality in

• Jay treaty

• Farewell Address

• XYZ affair

  • French refuses to let us negotiate with a real diplomat, wants America to pay to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand, Adams refuses

• Quasi Wars

• Anti French sentiment

• Alien and Sedition Acts

  • VA and KY Resolutions (Nullification by states)

Jeffersonian America (1800 - 1815)

• Embargo Act

• Louisiana Purchase (1803) bought for 15 million, budget of 10 million, (BARGAIN)

• Lewis and Clark (Corps of Discovery)

• Barbary Wars

• Impressment

  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (1807)

• Marbury v. Madison

• Judiciary Act of 1801

• Judicial Review

• Amendment XII (separate ballots for president and vice president)

• Election of 1800 (Aaron Burr, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton)

  • 36th ballot Jefferson elected (from House of Reps)