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exam vocab. history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Magellan | the first persone to circomenavigat the world |
| Columbus | took 4 trips westward looking for an all water rout to asia |
| De Gama | saild arould the tip of africa and established an all water route to india |
| Cortes | he looked for the aztecs empire of gold that did not excist |
| Cabot | tried to look for anall water route to aisa like columbus |
| Vespucci | explored the coastof south america and got the credit for nameing North and south america |
| Starving time in Jamestown | the winter of 1609-1910 were ther was no food and only 60 out of 500 lived |
| Colombian Exchange | Exchanges between the New and Old Worlds of plants, animals, diseases |
| Cash crops | crops raised to be sold for money |
| Indentured servant | people work for a set amount of time for the people that pay for there trip |
| Compass rose | tells you derection on a map |
| Scale | tells you distenses on a map |
| Legend or key | tells you what symbols mean on a map |
| Appalachian Mountains | streches from eastern canada to Alabama |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | a constitution that extended voting rights and ideas of a representative gov. |
| Mayflower Compact | a set rules to govern the new colony 41 people signed |
| Intolerable Acts | a seires of laws enacted by parlement in 1774 to punish them for the bostin tea party. blocked there ports |
| William Bradford | led jamestown after john smith left |
| John Smith | the leader of jamestown |
| Representative government | A form of government where the powers of the sovereignty are delegated to a body of men |
| Great migration | When a bunch of people left england because they were tired of miss treatment |
| Quartering Act | forced colonists to house soldies |
| Stamp Act | had to put a stamp on all legal documents saying you payed a tax |
| Townsend Act | suspended NY assymbly and put a tax on all goods coming in to the british colonies |
| Sugar Act | put a tax on sugar and Molasses |
| Tea Act | put a tax on tea |
| Navigation Acts | had 4 major provisions designed to ensure that england got money from its colonies trade |
| Founding of Pennsylvania | William Penn, a place for religious freedom |
| Founding of New York | The Duke of York, for tading posts and money |
| Founding of Georgia | James Ogtethorpe, for more land and a place for debters |
| Thomas Paine | person who wrote common sence |
| Enlightenment | a movement about reasoning and science(ben Franklin, John Loock) |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade colonists from settling west of the Appl. Mt. (they faught for it they though they diserved it) |
| Boston Massacre | A clash between British soldiers and Boston Colonists that ended with 5 people dead |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 342 chests of tea in the Boston Harbor |
| Taxation without representation | a government imposes taxes on its citizens, despite the citizens not consenting or having an actual representative |
| Key grievances against King George III | -he imposed many taxes -he burnt down many cities -made a war in his own gov. |
| George Washington | The comander of the continental army |
| Benedict Arnold | traiter of George washington |
| Nathanael Green | general in the continental army |
| Patrick Henry | An Antifederalist from Virgina |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | the first battles of the revoluionary war |
| Battle of Saratoga | the turning point of he revolutiionary war( french helped us, and Benidict Arnald swiched sides) |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the revolutionary war |
| Winter at Valley Forge | there was no food and and diseases that killed 1/4 of them |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | ended the french and indian war |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | ended the revolutionary war |
| Strategy | an overal plan of action |
| Marquis de Lafayette | a french boy that faught under comander Washington |
| Baron von Steuben | taught washingtons men to fight |
| Bernardo de Galvez | He protected the United States in the south and west and provided supplies. |
| Northwest Ordinance | discribed how the north west tarritory would be governed |
| Land Ordinance | discribed how the Northwest territory would be seperated |
| Northwest Territory | land north west (Ohio, Indiana, Illinoi) |
| Magna Carta | a document protecting englishmens rights approvedby king John in 1215 |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | it redused the power of recent imagrents to the US |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Constitution |
| James Madison | father of the constitution (book worm) |
| John Adams | a lawyer and cousin of Samual Adams |
| Federalism | a system of gov. in which power is devided between the central gov. and the states |
| Constitutional Convention | A meeting in Philidelphia in 1787(Goerge Washington, James Madison) |
| Individual rights | a persons personal liberties and privilages |
| Popular Sovereignty | where the people rule |
| Republicanism | belife that people exersise their power by voting |
| Separation of Powers | the division of basic rule into branches |
| Minuteman | men thet were ready to fight at a moments notice |
| Loyalist | an american colonist who supported the British in the american revolution |
| Writs of Assistance | a search warent that allowed British officers to search colonial houses |
| Presidential Cabinet | the presidents closest advisors |
| Federal Judiciary Act | It helped creat a cout system and gave the suprem court 6 members |
| Hamilton’s Financial Plan | ~america must repay our debts ~generae revonue by tariffs ~create a National Bank |
| Tariffs | taxes on imported goods |
| Whiskey Rebellion | e rbelion aginst the tax on whiskey that was the lively hood of back country farmers |
| Challenges Washington faced as president | ~debt ~NA ~war between france and England wanting us to join |
| Political Party | a group of people who try to promote ideas about the gov. |
| Unalienable Rights | rights that cant be taken away |
| States’ Rights | all rights not delegated to the federal gov. |
| Requirements to vote in the USA | you need to be 18 or older and a citicen |
| great awakaning | a revival of religios feeling in the American colonies(johnathin Edwards) |
| Reasons why the Americans won the Revolutionary War (advantages) | have cause, fighting on there own lands, strong military leadership |
| Advantages of the British in the Revolutionary War | Lots of men, well traind, supplies |
| 2 physical phetures that aeperate the USA from the rest of the world | Atlantic and pacific ocean |
| Jamestown Established | 1607 |
| Plymouth Established | 1620 |
| French and Indian War | 1754-1763 |
| US Constitution written | 1787 |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation | adopted it in 1777 apeoved in 1781 |
| What were the key crops and economics for the various regions of the 13 colonies? | souther-cotton,tobbaco/middle-lumber, fishing,cattle/new englan-fishing, ship building,whaling |
| What were strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? | passed the land ordinance and the northwest ordinence/no power to tax,could not enforce laws |
| Compare and contrast the Virginia and New Jersey plans | V-2 houses,strong national gov.,repesentive depend on population/NJ-1 house,weak national gov.,1representative per state |
| 3/5ths Compromise? | 3/5 of the slaves count as part of the population as tax perposes |
| Federalists people | James madison,Alixander Hamilton |
| first 19 Amendments | people rights |
| Compare and contrast the challenges of the presidencies of Washington and Adams | -relationships with France -debt |
| Anti-federalist people | Patric Henry,Geogre Mason |
| English Bill of Rights | The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament. |
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