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1st Sem. Study Guide
Midterm Study Guide for US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hopes of getting rich, desire to convert Native Americans to Christianity,and a desire by poor people to gain land | Causeds of People Leaving England |
| Eurpoeans looked beyond their continent because they wanted to | Increase in Trade |
| Caused a drastic deline in the Native American population | Disease |
| The interaction of goods, people, animals, diseases, ideas, and technology among Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas | Columbian Exchange |
| Had the best relations with Native Americans because of their respectful land use because they were fur traders | French |
| This group of people were forced to move involuntarily from Africa, and were part of the Middle Passage trade process | Slaves |
| The religious movement that led to the growth of evangelical religions, and new political ideas | Great Awakening |
| English nobility who recieved large grants of land from the king | Cavaliers |
| Established in 1607 as the first permanent settlement | Jamestown |
| Shipbuilding, Lumbering, Manufacturing | New England Colonies |
| Along the coast of the Atlantic and Ocean and rivers | Geography of the Colonies |
| Rich land owners had more political power than poor farmers in this region | Southern Colonies Social Structure |
| The covenant community the pilgrims founded was based on the ideas of this document | Mayflower Compact |
| Unlike Virginians who came for economic opportunity, the group came for religous freedom | Puritans |
| The House of Burgesses was in this colony | Virginia |
| This region was the most religiously tolerant | Middle Colonies |
| Europeans who worked in exchange for the cost of their travel to the Americas | Indentured Servant |
| Typically grown in plantations in large quantities to make money. For example Tobacco | Cash Crop |
| This war took place over land. The victor was Great Britain. Colonists were taxed as a result | French and Indian War |
| King george forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachians with this | Proclomation of 1763 |
| This created a tax on paper; including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards | Stamp Act |
| This changed the tax rate on raw sugar and molasses and angered the colonists | Sugar Act |
| This event occured when a protest by American colonists turned bloody | Boston Massacre |
| The meeting of this group marked the first time the 13 colonies worked together | 1st Contenential Congress |
| Believed that people consented to form a government and people may change their government if it does not protect their rights | John Locke |
| These colonists believed in independance from Great Britain and made up 1/3 of the poplation | Patriots |
| These colonists remained loyal to Great Britain and made up 1/3 of the population | Loyalists |
| We hold the truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. This document was a list of grievences against the king. | Declration of Independance |
| This document was crucial in changing public opinion to support independance. It challenged the rule by the King of England | Thomas Paine and Common Sense |
| These colonists refused to get involved in the revolutionary war and made up 1/3 ofthe population | Neutralists |
| Examples: Journal, Photograph, Arrowhead | Primary Source |
| Examples: Textbook, Encyclopedia | Secondary Source |
| This battle was the first battle between the redcoats(British) and the minutemen(Colonists) | Lexington and Concord |
| This army lacked good military leadership during the Revolutionary War | Continential Army |
| He was able to defeat England because he was able to avoid situations where his army would be destroyed | George Washington |
| This battle ended the American Revolutionary War. The French assisted the Americans in winning | Yorktown |
| This event confirmed American Independance and set boundaries for the new nation | Treaty of Paris |
| The turning point of the revolutionary war | Saratoga |
| American citizen soldiers in the revolutinary war | Minutemen |
| This document is the supreme law of the land. Until it was ratified the United States had no president | The Constitution |
| This was an agreement about how to count slaves in determining population for representation | Three Fifths Compromise |
| This was an agreement about how to determine a state's representation in congress, and it created a bicameral legislature | The Great Compromise |
| Executive, Legislative, Judicial | Branches of Government |
| This maintains the the separation of powers among the branches of the federal government to keep any one branch from being too strong | Checks and Balances |
| This document was supported by the Anti-Federalists | Bill of Rights |
| This group supported the new constitution and did not see a need for the bill of rights | Federalists |
| This group feared the power of a strong national government in the debate over the constitution | Anti-Federalists |
| It restated that the idea that basic human rights should not be violated by the government and was a model for the Bill of Rights | Virginia Declration of Rights |
| This document provided for protection of religious beliefs and ideals and served as a model for the Bill of Rights | Virginia Statue for Regilious Freedom |
| Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation | Inability to Tax and Regulate Commerce |
| This office was created by the Constitution of the United States | The President |
| This is reflected in the constitution of the United States through the division of powers between the national and state governments | Federalism |
| Author of the Virginia Plan, much of the bill of rights, and known as the father of the constitution | James Madison |
| This court case gave the Supreme court the ability to declare a law unconstitutional through the power of judicial review | Marbury vs. Madison |
| In this court case Marshall declared the the power to tax is the power to destroy in reference to the federal government | McCullock vs. Maryland |
| Well known justice of the Supreme Court | John Marshall |
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