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1. PLYMOUTH COLONY
Who: Pilgrims
What: founded a colony for religious reasons
Where: Massachusetts
Sig: One of the first English colony on N.A soil
2. MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620
Who: Pilgrims
What: Governing document of New world
Where: AMERICA
Sig: first legislature thingy in new world
3. HEADRIGHT SYSTEM ‘
Who: English poor people
What: gave land to people who came over to the new world
Where: The new world
Sig: Increased populations of Colonies
4. FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639
Who: People of Connecticut
What: basic constitution for towns colony w/e
Where: Colonial Connecticut
SIg: Sorta kinda like a constitution
5. MERCANTILISM
Who: Merchants
What: Kept trade within UK
Where: Colonies and the UK
Sig: Pissed people off
6. TRIANGULAR TRADE
Who: Colonies slave states UK
What: Traded Manufactured goods for slaves and slaves for sugar and then sent back to UK
Where: UK American Colonies Slave states
Sig: Bolstered Mercantilism
7. THE GREAT AWAKENING
Who: Fundamentalist people; Protestants
What: revived religious tradition
Where: American Colonies
Sig: Influenced Politics
8. IRON ACT 1750
Who: American Colonists
What: forced iron to be imported only from the UK
Where: Colonies of UK
Sig: Pissed more colonials off
9. INDENTURED SERVANTS
Who: Poor of england
What: Free passage to New world Colonies
Where: British Isles and American Colonies
Sig: cheap labour
10. GEORGE WASHINGTON
Who: George Washington
What: Colonel, president and commander in chief
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Kicked major ass in revolution
11. PROCLAMATION OF 1763
Who: Indians and Colonials
What: Stabilize relations through trade and stuff
Where: American colonies
Sig: Led to Indians getting killed off later
12. SALUTARY NEGLECT
Who: Who Parliament and American Colonies
What: Neglecting to enforce Laws in the
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Led to semi Independent thought of colonials
13. STAMP ACT 1765
Who: American Colonists
What: taxed the shit out of them
Where: AMERICA
Sig: pissed Even more people off
14. STAMP ACT CONGRESS
Who: Colonial delegates
What: sent delegates to new York to discuss stamp act
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Led to a petition of stamp act
15. SONS OF LIBERTY
Who: AMERICAN PATRIOTS
What: Attacked symbols of British authority
Where: Colonies
Sig: First signs of rebellion
16. COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
Who: American Colonies
What: Bodies of organized local governments
Where: Colonies
Sig: Sped up communications
17. BOSTON MASSACRE
Who: Bostonians
What: some protesters were shot and killed
Where: Boston
Sig: Led to more dissent
18. INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774
Who: American Colonials
What: took away American Colonials constitutional rights
Where: American colonies
Sig: Led to open rebellion?
19. SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775
Who: Delegates of the Thirteen Colonies
What: Met to plan war effort lead the country
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Led to Formation of the U.S.
24. IMPLIED POWERS(ELASTIC CLAUSE)
Who: Federal Government
What: Powers not directly given to the Govt.
Where: U.S.
Sig: Gives powers to the federal government to evolve and change
25. GREAT COMPROMISE
Who: States of the United States
What: Agreement for a plant for congress
Where: The U.S.
Sig: formed house and senate
James town
place were a bunch of dudes decided to party in a swamp, led by John Smith. Turned into a major Tobacco growing place later on.
John Smith
Badass dude who single handedly saved James town from injuns and famine before being sent back to England for being too l33t for the new world
Headright System
System that gave land to people who brought over other people from England to British America
Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part;
Mayflower Compact
primitive system of government created by the pilgrims who then went on to exterminate their primitive neighbors
Massachusetts bay Company
Also known as the Massachusetts Colony was filed to the brim with party animals that partied every day and the Injuns didn't like this so they crashed the party on occasion also joint stock company and puritans
Roger Williams
English theologian who got the charter to found Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Feminazi who pissed off the dudes in the colonies by preaching the word of god and interpreting sermons her own way and thus was banished
Pequot war
Colonists with Guns VS. Indians with bows and arrows
pequots were exterminated and enslaved(those who were captured that is)
alliance between plymouth colonies and Massachusetts
Stamp Act
Who: American Colonists
What: Were taxed on paper goods
When: 1765
Where: American Colonies
Sig: led to stamp act congress petition and stuff
Declaratory Act:
Who: American Colonists
What: were made to obey laws to regulate their behaviors
When: 1766
Where: American Colonies
Sig: Pissed people off cuz they thought their liberty was taken away
Quartering Act:
Who: American Colonists
What: forced to house and feed soldiers
When: 1765 and 1774
Where: AMERICA
Sig: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Townshend act:
Who: American Colonists also Ireland i think
What: taxed without their consent
When: 1770
Where: AMERICA
Sig: led to Boston Tea party and American Revolution
Tea Act:
Who: American Patriots
What: were taxed on tea
When: in may of 1773
Where: why the American Colonies
Sig: BOSTON TEA PARTY
BOSTON TEA PARTY:
Who: Boston Colonials
What: Threw tea of East India Company boats
When: December 16, 1773
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
Sig: Led to the coercive acts
Coercive Acts:
Who: American Colonists
What: Punished for Tea Party
When: 1774
Where: American Colonies
Sig: Pissed off everyone in colonies; led to formation of First continental Congress and Revolutionary War
Mutiny Acts:
Who: British and colonists
What: Soldiers mooched off Colonists
When: 1774
Where: American Colonies
Sig: not much colonists didnt mind them
Samuel Adams:
Who: Samuel Adams
What: Political Philosipher
When: 1722-1803
Where: AMERICA
Sig: "..MAN OF THE REVOLUTION"
King William’s War:
Who: north Americans
What: NA phase of the grand alliance
Where: North AMerica
Sig: led to peace
Queen Anne’s War:
Who: North Americans
What: Part of the war of Spanish Succession
Where: North America
Sig: led to British land gain
Peace of Utrecht:
Who: European nations
What: ended war of spanish succession
Where: Europe
Sig: Balance of power
War of Jenkin’s Ear:
Who: UK and Spain
What: went to war with each other for petty things
Where: Europe and the new world
Sig: became part of war of austrian succession
Paxton Boys:
Who: bunch o ruffians
What: killed a buch o injuns
Where: pennsylvania
Sig: revealed tensions between established societies in colonies
Grenville’s Program:
Who: Colonists
What: colonists needed monies
Where: Colonies
Sig: offset the colonial economy which pissed people off
Patrick Henry:
Who: Patrick Henry
What: Served as first post colonial governor of virginia
Where: Virginia
Sig: made bad ass speech to house of burgesses
SONS OF LIBERTY:
Who: American Patriots
What: stuck it to the man
by throwing tea off of boats and tar and feathering doods
Where: American Colonies
Sig: Led to coercive acts
Daughters of Liberty:
Who: womens
What: showed patriotism by not buying groceries
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Help end the stamp act
Crispus Attucks:
Who: Crispus Attucks
What:m killed during boston massacre
Where: BOSTON
Sig: considered a MARTYR
John Adams:
Who: John Adams
What: Second president of US
Where: US
Sig: peaceful resolution to quasi war thingy with france
Carolina Regulators:
Who: Doods that didnt want to pay taxes
What: pissed off at taxes being collected
Where: North Carlolina
Sig: led to the formation of minny republics in the western east coast
Battle of the Alamance:
Who: Regulators
What: got pwnd in this battle
Where: Colonial North Carolina
Sig: led to end of regulator movement
FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1774:
Who: Convention of delegates of American Colonies
What: met to consider option on how to react to coercive acts
Where:AMERICA
Sig: led to second continental Congress
Suffolk Resolves:
Who: Suffolk, Massachusetts
What: passed some resolves
Where:Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Sig: led to declaration of independence
Galloway Plan:
Who: Joseph Galloway
What: wanted to puss out and stay with the UK
Where: AMERICA
Sig: planned failed hard
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, APRIL 19, 1775:
Who: American Patriots
What: Fought the first battles
Where: Lexington and Concord
Sig: led to moar battles
Paul Revere, William Dawes:
Who: two of the three men who alerted minutemen of the aproach of the lobster backs
What: alerted minutemen of Lobsterback Approach
Where: Massachusetts
Sig: led to battles of concord and lexington
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS:
Who: Colonial Delegates
What: led the war effort moved to independence
Where: AMERICA
Sig: Led to creation of US of A
Slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence:
Who:
What:
Where:
Sig:
Somerset Case (in Great Britain):
Who: English
What: said slavery was illegal in englad
Where: England
Sig: why was slavery not illegal in British America
Quock Walker case- Mass:
Who: Quock Walker
What: sued his master for freedom
Where: Massachusetts
Sig: Quock won his freedom
Benedict Arnold:
Who: Benedct Arnold
What: Stabbed the US in the back
Where: AMERICA
Sig: hid like a Pansie once his plan failed
Continental Army:
Who: Colonial revolutionary
What: fought against the lobster backs
Where: AMERICA
Sig: won the war for revolution
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War:
Who: Injuns
What: didnt want americans to win cuz they would take more lands
Where: western EAST COAST OF AMERICA
Sig: led to injuns being kille off later
Black Americans in the Revolutionary War:
Who: Former slaves
What: Fought for british to gain freedom
Where: AMERICA
Sig: pissed off southern colonies
1. Judiciary Act 1789
. It created effective federal courts in a hierarchal order. There were city, county, and state courts , along with circuit courts, and the Supreme Court
2. Citizen Genet
A French diplomat who came to the U.S. 1793 to ask the American government to send money and troops to aid the revolutionaries in the French Revolution
3. Right of Deposit 1787
This was the right to pass through a port and trade goods paying taxes. Westerners wanted this privilege at the Port of New Orleans.
4. John Marshall
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 33 years. He made the judiciary free from political attack.
5. Lewis and Clark
. The were sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase
6. Chesapeake Leopard Affair
This incident between an American and British ship cause great public resentment among Americans
7. Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Designed to pay off the U.S.’s war debts and stabilize the economy, this idea believed that the United States should become a leading international commercial power. Its programs included the creation of the Bank of the United
8. Whiskey Rebellion
In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders.
9. Washington’s Farewell Address
He warned against the dangers of political parties and foreign alliances
10. Citizen Genet
He was a French statesman who came to America in search of monetary aid.
11. Jay’s Treaty
. It was signed in the hopes of settling the growing conflicts between the U.S. and Britain. It dealt with the Northwest posts and trade on the Mississippi River
12. Pinckney’s Treaty
Treaty between the U.S. and Spain which gave the U.S. the right to transport goods on the Mississippi river and to store goods in the Spanish port of New Orleans
13. XYZ Affair
This was a diplomatic scandal which took place from March of 1797 to 1800 in which three French agents, demanded a $12 million loan from the United States, and a formal apology for comments made by U.S. President John Adams
14. Compact Theory (States Rights)
It was the belief that federal government acted as the states agent and that states can declare federal laws unconstitutional
15. Revolution of 1800
Jefferson’s election victory changed the direction of the government from Federalist to Democratic- Republican without incidence
16. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional
17. Judicial Review
This was the power given to the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of a law passed by congress
18. Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson was interested in the territory because it would give the U.S. the Mississippi River and New Orleans (both were valuable for trade and shipping) and also room to expand.
19. Impressment
British seamen often deserted to join the American merchant marines. The British would board American vessels in order to retrieve the deserters, and often seized any sailor who could not prove that he was an American citizen and not British
20. Embargo Act
This act issued by Jefferson forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S. It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade
21. Non-Intercourse Act
Replaced the Embargo of 1807, unlike the Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain.
22. Macon’s Bill No. 2
Forbade trade with Britain and France, but offered to resume trade with whichever nation lifted its neutral trading restrictions first
23. War Hawks
Western settlers who advocated war with Britain because they hoped to acquire Britain’s northwest posts
24. Hartford Convention
This turned public sentiment against the Federalists and led to the demise of the party
25. Treaty of Ghent
Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner
1. Waving the Bloody Shirt
Significance: Republicans showed how democrats were treasonous
2. Compromise of 1877
Significance: Republican president elected after deal was made with dems
3. Credit Mobilier
Significance: Railroad company charged high prices to lay rail for no reason to scam union pacific or something
4. Pendleton Civil Service Act
Significance: End of spoils system
5. Laissez-Faire
Significance: No govt regulation of economy leads to communism
6. Robber Barons
Significance: Capitalist bourgeoisie who forced the working man to work for him or die
7. Andrew Carnegie
Significance: Robber baron; owner of Carnegie Steel Co. also a philanthropist
8. Interstate Commence Act
Significance: Regulate state commerce
9. Haymarket Square Riot
Significance: bunch of guys on strike got shot
10. Pullman Strike
Significance: workers went on strike because wages were cut strike was ended when army showed up
11. New Immigration
Significance: Immigrants from eastern Europe and the far east they weren’t liked by the old immigrants
12. William “Boss” Tweed
Significance: Rich guy house of reps. Democrat. Stole millions of tax dollars
13. Jane Addams
Significance: Founder of US settlement house and part of the progressive movement
14. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Significance: The Chinese were prohibited from enetering the country for 10 yrs except teachers doctors and merchants
15. Homestead Act
Significance: didn’t really work speculators with fake names bought up all the land
16. Joseph Glidden
Significance: Invented barbed wire
17. Helen Hunt Jackson
Significance: American Writer wrote about Indians and stuff
18. Dawes Severalty Act
Significance: Distribution of land to Injuns in Oklahoma was corrupt and Indians got very little land
19. Safety Valve Theory
Significance: led to homestead act
20. Social Darwinism
Significance: led to the idea that certain types of people were meant to do certain types of work IE the white man was the leader and was ontop
21. Social Gospel
Significance: Progressive movement; civil rights movement
Significance: Progressive movement; civil rights movement
22. Populist Party
Significance: Bunch of farmers got pissed when they weren’t able to sell there goods for profit
23. Omaha Platform
Significance: alliance between farmers and laborers
24. William McKinley
Significance: got shot and killed while giving a speech in new york
25. Cross of Gold Speech
Significance: switched the US economy to the Gold standard rather than the silver standard