Lesson 1 - Discovery to American Experiment

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What was the Agricultural Revolution? A Shift to Basic Crops instead of gathering in wild
Trading of European goods to Native Americans were part of what? Colombian Exchange
What was the encomienda system? The colonial leaders who gained power over Native tribes and forced the tribesmen and women into forced labor.
What did Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier separately try to find? A northwest passage around or through North America
What did John Rolfe try to grow in the Virginia colony? Tobacco, the "stinking weed"
What was a headright? 50-acre lot to pay rent on, once they paid their own way to the Virginia colony.
Who were the Scrooby Separatists and where did they travel before arriving to the New World? Pilgrims traveled from England to Holland in order to practice their form of Christianity but then feared they were too Dutch and boarded the Mayflower for America.
What Massachusetts governor was first called a Puritan. John Winthrop
What colony did James Oglethorpe establish and why? Georgia, to try to stop Spanish expansion of Florida up the Atlantic coast.
What were the most important lessons Puritan parents were to teach their children? The principles of Christianity and how to read.
What did Puritans in Connecticut and Massachusetts want their political leaders to be? Members of the Congregational churches and defenders of orthodox, or strict, religion.
What state had the highest percent of slaves in the population? Georgia - 60% were slaves
What acts by the British Parliament successfully made the colonists used to buying British goods? The Navigation Acts
What happened in Maryland after King James of England was overthrown? The Protestants and Catholics compromised to increase religious tolerance.
What was "middle ground" between Native Americans? Tribes around the Appalachian Mountains loosely organized together to resist American expansion.
For many Americans, what was the important element of the Enlightenment? Practical Experimentation.
Where did the Great Awakening start? New England in the 1730s
When did the American colonists capture the Louisbourg Fort? King George's War
What was the first tax George Grenville helped passed through Parliament? Revenue Act of 1764, or the Sugar Act
What was the committee of correspondence? A communication of grievances sent throughout Massachusetts by John Adams.
What was the purpose of the Coercive Acts? To halt rebellious planning in the colonies after the Boston Tea Party.
In the Battle of Saratoga, who accepted teh surrender of British General Burgoyne? Horatio Gates
Who was able to cut off the strength of General Cornwallis in South Carolina? General Nathanael Greene
What was republicanism? To Samuel Adams - more than a government. Way of Life, Core Idelogy, poltical culture and commitment to liberty and equality
What were the major components of the Articles of Confederation? Single Legislature - voted by state legislature No executive branch No taxation powers
Who established the New Jersey Plan in the Constitutional Convention? William Paterson
Where does the Constitution mention the powers of the states? 10th Amendment
How did Alexander Hamilton's view of human nature affect his view of democracies? He feared democratic excess, or majority rule, because his view of human nature was negative.
What did Jefferson think about the Whiskey Rebellion? He thought Hamilton used it to show the army's power to intimidate Republicans.
What did Washington warn against in his Farewell Address? Political Factions Foreign Entanglements
How did the High Federalists respond to the XYZ Affair? Build-up the Military Fortify Harbors Used to limit political opposition
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