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APUSH ch1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the first Americans reach the Americas? | Migrated from Asia during the Ice Age, including across Beringia and along the Pacific coast. |
| How did geography affect Native American societies? | Different environments created different lifestyles—farming, hunting, fishing, housing, and political systems. |
| Why was maize (corn) so important? | It provided a reliable food supply → population growth → permanent settlements → more complex societies. |
| What were the Three Sisters? | Corn, beans, and squash, crops commonly grown together. |
| What was Cahokia? | Large Mississippian city near present-day St. Louis; major center of trade, religion, farming, and political power. |
| What were Native American family/political structures generally like? | Very diverse, but many were organized through kinship and clans; some were matrilineal. |
| What was the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy? | Alliance of Native nations formed to promote peace and cooperation; originally the Five Nations. |
| How did many Native Americans view land? | Land was generally viewed more communally than Europeans viewed it; Europeans emphasized private ownership. |
| What motivated European exploration? | Wealth, trade, religion, and competition between European nations. |
| Why did Portugal become an early exploration leader? | Better navigation and ships, Atlantic location, and support from Prince Henry the Navigator. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) | Divided newly claimed lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal; Portugal gained claim to Brazil. |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed for Spain in 1492 and began sustained European contact and colonization in the Americas. |
| Columbian Exchange | Exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World. |
| Biggest effect of European diseases on Native Americans? | Diseases like smallpox caused enormous population losses because Native peoples lacked prior exposure. |
| Hernán Cortés | Led Spanish conquest of the Aztec/Mexica Empire. |
| Why was Cortés able to defeat the Aztecs? | Native allies + disease + Spanish weapons/technology + divisions within the Aztec Empire. |
| Francisco Pizarro | Led Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. |
| Encomienda system | Spanish colonists received rights to Native labor/tribute; resulted in severe exploitation. |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | Spanish priest who criticized the mistreatment and enslavement of Native Americans. |
| What was the Great Dying? | Massive decline in Native American populations after European arrival, mainly because of disease. |
| Why did Spain build such a large American empire? | Military conquest, Native alliances, disease, missionary activity, and centralized imperial government. |
| How did Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonization differ? | Spanish: conquest/missionaries. French: trade/Native alliances. Dutch: commerce. English: permanent settlements and land. |
| Why did England want colonies? | Wealth, land, trade, population pressure, religious goals, and competition with Spain. |
| Jamestown (1607) | First permanent English settlement; founded by the Virginia Company. |
| Why did early Jamestown almost fail? | Disease, hunger, poor location, conflict, and settlers initially focusing too little on food production. |
| John Rolfe / tobacco | Helped make tobacco profitable → Virginia's economy grew → demand for land and labor increased. |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia's elected representative assembly; important early example of colonial self-government. |
| Headright system | Granted land for paying someone's passage to Virginia → encouraged immigration and plantation expansion. |
| Powhatan Confederacy | Native political alliance surrounding Jamestown; relations with English settlers shifted between trade and warfare. |
| Plymouth Colony (1620) | Founded by Separatist Pilgrims seeking religious independence. |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Large Puritan colony established during the Great Migration. |
| John Winthrop / City Upon a Hill | Puritans believed their colony should be an example of a godly Christian society. |
| Roger Williams | Banished from Massachusetts; supported religious freedom and separation of church and state; founded Rhode Island/Providence. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Challenged Puritan religious authorities and was banished from Massachusetts. |
| Pequot War | Conflict between New England colonists/allies and Pequots; ended with devastating defeat of the Pequots. |
| Biggest difference between Virginia and New England | Virginia: tobacco, profit, plantations, labor demand. New England: family migration, towns, religion, mixed economy. |
| Middle Passage | Brutal Atlantic voyage that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas. |
| Why did colonial slavery expand? | Plantation agriculture created huge labor demand while the Atlantic slave trade supplied enslaved laborers. |
| Barbados Slave Code of 1661 | Established harsh laws controlling enslaved Africans and helped influence slave codes in English North America. |
| Bacon's Rebellion (1676) | Nathaniel Bacon and frontier settlers rebelled against Virginia governor William Berkeley over Native policy, land, and political/economic grievances. |
| Why is Bacon's Rebellion important? | Exposed class tensions in Virginia and was followed by planters relying increasingly on racial slavery rather than indentured servants. |
| Navigation Acts | English laws controlling colonial trade so it benefited England—part of mercantilism. |
| Mercantilism | Colonies existed partly to increase the wealth and power of the mother country through controlled trade. |
| Glorious Revolution (1688) | James II was replaced by William and Mary; strengthened Parliament and weakened absolute monarchy. |
| English Bill of Rights (1689) | Limited monarch's power and strengthened Parliament and certain individual rights. |
| King Philip's War (1675–76) | Major New England war between Native forces led by Metacom and English colonists/allies; devastating especially for Native communities. |
| Salem Witch Trials (1692) | Massachusetts witchcraft panic resulting in accusations, trials, and executions; reflected religious and social tensions. |
| Consumer Revolution | Colonists increasingly purchased imported British goods → colonies became more connected economically and culturally to Britain. |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival emphasizing emotional and personal faith; challenged established religious authority. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Major Great Awakening preacher; famous for Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. |
| George Whitefield | Famous traveling preacher whose revivals helped spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies. |
| New Lights vs. Old Lights | New Lights supported revivalism; Old Lights favored traditional established churches. |
| John Locke | Enlightenment thinker who argued people possess natural rights and government depends on consent of the governed. |
| Print culture / Benjamin Franklin | Growth of newspapers, books, and printing spread information and ideas between colonists. |
| Stono Rebellion (1739) | Major uprising by enslaved people in South Carolina → stricter slave laws afterward. |
| Seven Years' War / French and Indian War | Britain and its colonists fought France and its Native allies for control of territory in North America. |
| Why is the French and Indian War a HUGE turning point? | Britain won territory but gained massive debt → Britain tightened control and sought revenue from colonies → increased colonial-British tensions. |
| Treaty of Paris (1763) | Ended the Seven Years' War; France lost most of its mainland North American empire and Britain gained major territory. |
| Pontiac's War | Native resistance against British expansion around the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley after the French and Indian War. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Britain restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians to reduce conflict with Native peoples which led to angered colonists wanting western land |
| Stamp Act | |
| sugar act | |
| intolerable acts | |
| Battle of Yorktown | |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | |
| Mass | puritans |
| PA | quakers |
| VA | |
| NC | |
| SC | |
| RI | |
| MD | |
| GA | |
| east/west India co | |
| new sweden | |
| DE | |
| wampanoag | |
| Charles town | |
| georgetown | |
| carribean | |
| Oliver cromwell | |
| King Charles 1st/2nd/3rd | |
| new netherland | |
| William penn | |
| saratoga | |
| prussia | |
| russia | |
| quebec/montreal/Nova scotia | |
| new france | |
| Albany congress | |
| yamasee | |
| old wigs vs patriot wigs or Tories/whigs | |
| Samuel Adams | |
| currency act | |
| sons of liberty | |
| declaratory acts | |
| committees of correspondance | |
| John Adams, Paul Revere | |
| tea act | |
| John hancokc | |
| Boston Port Act/ Massachusetts Government Act | |
| The Second Continental Congress | |
| olive branch petition | |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | |
| The First Continental Congress | |
| Quartering Act | |
| Thomas Paine’s Common Sense | |
| Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson | |
| continental army | |
| General Charles Cornwallis Valley Forge, 1777-78 |
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