6/2 Aim: What do you need to know for the final?

Do Now: Write 2 multiple choice questions with 4

possible answers that may be on exam next week

Mountain that run along the Pacific Coast

Sierra Nevada

Mountains farthest east near Atlantic Coast

Appalachian Mountains

Land surrounded by water on 3 sides

peninsula

Land that blocked settlement west

Rocky Mountains

- Holy wars between Christians and Muslims over the city of

Jerusalem- one of the causes of the age of exploration (inspired Europeans

to learn again…)

crusades

Early theory about how people arrived in North America during the

Ice Age over the Bering sea

Land Bridge Theory

Seafaring people from Scandinavia believed to have reached the Americas before

Columbus

Vikings

People who spread religion

missionaries

3 main reasons for exploration

God, gold and glory

Main reason Columbus explored “new world”

Sought all water route to Asia for spice trade

Exchange of foods, plants, animals and diseases after

exploration

Columbian Exchange

Main reason people “settled” in the new world

Fertile land, more opportunities, better life

- 1st act of democracy in the Americas

- Agreement of 41 men on how to govern the Plymouth

Colony

Mayflower Compact

People that worked in America for 5 – 7 yrs to pay people back for their help paying for their voyage to

America

Indentured Servants

Colonies with small farms and fishing villages

New England Colonies

Colonies nicknamed “the breadbasket” colonies

Middle colonies

Colonies that focused on large plantations for its economy

Southern colonies

Founder of Connecticut

Thomas Hooker

Founder of Georgia

James Ogelthorpe

Founded Rhode Island and kicked out of the Massachusetts

Bay Colony

Roger Williams

Banished from the Mass. Bay Colony for criticizing the church and saying god spoke directly to

her

Anne Hutchinson

War between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley

French and Indian War

First plan to unite 13 colonies that failed…..by Benjamin

Franklin

Albany Plan of Union

Treaty that ended the French and Indian War

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Reasons for heavy taxation of colonists

Debt from French and Indian War

Economic policy where colonies exist for the benefit of the

mother country

Raw materials sent to mother country in exchange for

manufactured goods

mercantilism

British law-making body

Parliament

Main Argument of colonists

No taxation without representation

Colonists who supported independence from Britain

Patriots

Colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the American

Revolution

Loyalists

Another name for British soldiers during the American

Revolution

Redcoats

As a result of the victory at ______________, France and Spain helped the colonists

during the American Revolution.

Battle of Saratoga

Standing armies during the Revolution

militias

Restricted trade among the colonists – they could only trade

with England – England main market of goods

Navigation Acts

Created to give a monopoly to the British East India Company

Tea Act

Forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian

Mountains

Proclamation of 1763

Tax on everyday items

Townshend Acts

Groups that supported boycotts and violence of British to protest

British laws

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Search warrants to search for smuggled goods

Writs of Assistance

Tax on legal documents including newspapers

Stamp Act

List of complaints against King George III and justified reasons

for independence

Declaration of Independence

Led to Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts – Boston harbor

was closed etc.

Boston Tea Party

First constitution 1781 - 1787

Articles of Conferation

Showed weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Shay’s Rebellion

Major weakness of the Articles of Confederation

States had more power than national government

Showed strength of national government

Whiskey Rebellion

Plan for large states to be represented in the federal

legislature (Congress)

Virginia Plan

Plan for small states to be represented in the federal

legislature (Congress)

New Jersey Plan

Compromise between small and large states

Great Compromise – created 2-house legislature (Congress)

Plan to include slaves in representation in a federal

legislature

3/5th’s Compromise

System of electing a president

Electoral College

Executive, Legislative and Judicial

Separation of Powers

When the Supreme Court declares laws constitutional or

not

Judicial Review

Name of supreme court case that supported Judicial

Review

Marbury vs. Madison

Judicial Review is an example of……

Checks and balances

Wrote Neutrality Proclamation

George Washington

Purchased the Louisiana Territory and sent Louis and

Clark to explore it….

Thomas Jefferson

Kidnapping of American sailors and forcing them to work on

their ships

Impressment

Stopped trade with all nations

Embargo Act

Stopped trade with only Britain and France

Non-intercourse Act

A threat to all European powers to stay out of the western

hemisphere or else…..

Monroe Doctrine

Period of strong nationalism and unity for nation after War

of 1812

Era of Good Feeling

President of the “common man”

Andrew Jackson

Firing government workers and replacing them with your

supporters

Spoils system

Canceling a law

Nullification or nullify

to break away from a country

secede

Nicknamed “corrupt bargain”

Election of 1824

Why the election of 1824 was called a “corrupt bargain”

Henry Clay dropped out of race and voted for Adams who made

him his Secretary of State

Tax on imports

tariff

Reason people opposed annexing Texas

Texans used slave labor

What did the US buy after buying the Louisiana Territory?

Florida from Spain

Reason “Remember the Alamo” was an important saying….

It motivated Texans to fight hard for Texas independence

Belief that the US had a godly right to all the land from the

Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean

Nickname for people participating in the California

Gold Rush

49er’s

Admitted Maine into country as a free state and Missouri as a

slave state

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Admitted California as a free state

Compromise of 1850

Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820

Kansas Nebraska Act

- Supreme Court Case that allowed slavery in ALL territories- repealed Missouri Compromise and legalized Fugitive Slave Law

Dred Scott case

People who wanted slavery to end….

Ex. Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas and John Brown

Abolitionists

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Restricted African American freedoms during Reconstruction

Black Codes

Stopped African American from gaining rights under the 15th

Amendment

Literacy tests, poll taxes and Grandfather Clause

Set up laws in the South that supported segregation

(separating races)

Jim Crow Laws

Group of people that conflicted with President Johnson and

believed in immediate equality of races as well as punishing the former Confederate states after

the Civil War

Radical Republicans