AP US History Key Terms

Zone undergired by ancient rock

Dense population, cities such as Aztecs

Mississippian settlement, held almost 25,000 people

Beans growing on trellis of cornstalks, squash covering planting mounds to retain moisture

Often Muslim transport from source to consumer

Ship that could sail closer to the wind

From Portugese in Africa based on large scale commercial agriculture explotation of slave labor

Spain secured claim to "Columbus Discoveries"

In service of God, and search of gold they spread across Carribean/America

30 June 1520 Aztec attacked

Mix of Indian-European heirtage

Part of the war on Pueblo people, each survivor had a foot severed

Uprising of Indians provoked by missionaries

Concept that conquerors killed, maimed, stole, tortured Indians leaving nothing but misery behind.

Inspired by conflict with Catholic Church 1530s.

Where Sir Walter Raleigh 1st landed in America

Beginning of end of imperial dreams. When they tried to defeat England

Only eldest sons inheirited land estates

Forerunner of modern corporations

Guarranteed overseas travelers same rights as in England

First successful English settlement

1610-1614

1644-1646

Denied all rights to slaves 1661

North Carolina won, sent Indians to slavery

4 years later defeated/dispersed

Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordainedsome people to be saved and some to be damned. Though their fate was irreversible

Intense religious experience that confirmed an individual’splace among the “elect,” or the “visible saints.”

Against fraternizing of "visible saints" with dammed sinners

Agreement to form a crude government/submit majority's rule under agreed upon regulations

Well equiped expedition

1630's ~70,000 left England

Modern constitusion/document, its regime was controlled substantially by citizens (democracy)

War between colonists and Pequot tribe, almost annihilated

Series of assaults by Metacom, KingPhilip, on En glish settlements in New En gland. The attacks slowedthe westward migration of New En gland settlers for severaldecades.

Armed conflict between royalistsand parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-Parliamentforces and the execution of Charles I.

London crontrolled, aimed at bolstering colonial defense

Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulatecolonial shipping; the acts provided that only En glish shipswould be allowed to trade in En glish and colonial ports, and thatall goods destined for the colonies would first pass throughEngland

Dethroning of James II Throning of William II

When the monarchs relaxed their grip on America's colonial trade

Feudal estates fronting the Hudson River

sumptuary laws, they are designed torestrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality.Blue laws were passed across the colonies

Gave masters of indentured servants right to 50 acres of land

Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmersand indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially aresponse to Governor William Berkeley’s refusal to protect backcountrysettlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grewinto a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and theplanter elite.

En glish joint-stock company thatenjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave tradefrom 1672 until 1698. The supply of slaves to the North Americancolonies rose sharply once the company lost its monopoly privileges.

Slave transport from Africa to U.S

1712 9 whites died 21 blacks executed

Democratic church government

From jeremiah prophet, focused on waning piety

Agreement allowing unconverted offspringof church members to baptize their children. It signified awaning of religious zeal among second and third generationPuritans.

Armed conflict between aspiringmerchants led by Jacob Leisler and the ruling elite of New York. Oneof many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthycolonists attempted to recreate European social structures in theNew World.

Armed march on Philadelphia by Scotts-Irishfrontiersmen in protest against the Quaker establishment’s lenientpolicies toward Native Americans

Eventually violent uprising ofbackcountry settlers in North Carolina against unfair taxation andthe control of colonial affairs by the seaboard elite

Exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses betweenthe North American Colonies, Africa, and the West Indies. A smallbut immensely profitable subset of the Atlantic trade

Individual free will determined fate

Religious revival

Orthodox religious

Defended awakening

Pithy sayings

New York libel case against John PeterZenger. Established the principle that truthful statements aboutpublic officials could not be prosecuted as libel

Catholic/Protestant conflicts

Granted limited tolerance to French Protestants

Runners of the woods fur trappers

Recruited Indians for fur trade

Early contest for America

Early contest for America

Small-scale clash betweenBritain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony,Georgia. It merged with the much larger War of Austrian Successionin 1742

North American theater ofEurope’s War of Austrian Succession that once again pitted Britishcolonists against their French counterparts in the North. The peacesettlement did not involve any territorial realignment, leading toconflict between New En gland settlers and the British government

French residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom wereuprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south asLouisiana, where their descendants became known as “Cajuns.”

Fourth Anglo-French struggle in America

Intercolonial congress summoned by theBritish government to foster greater colonial unity and assureIroquois support in the escalating war against the French

Trained professional soldiers, as distinct from militia orconscripts.

Historic British victory over Frenchforces on the outskirts of Québec. The surrender of Québecmarked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America

Siege to Detroit all but 3 British posts over run, 2K soldiers/settlers killed

Political theory of representative government,based on the principle of popular sovereignty, with a strong emphasison liberty and civic virtue.

British political commenters

Justified control of colonies unders a belief of wealth=power

No juries allowed

27 deligates from 9 colonies came to New york to debate rights

Boycotting British goods, gave people new chacne to participate in rebellion

Spiritedly enforced rebellion

Complete boycott of British goods

Rebel camp

Representative body of delegates from all 13 colonies Drafted Declaration of Independance and managed colonial war efforts.