What were the Spanish trying to find when they sponsored Columbus

1
What were the Spanish trying to find when they
sponsored Columbus voyage west?

• A new route to Asia

2
Name two things that the Europeans brought with
them to the new world?

• Iron technology, Christianity, diseases, firearms

3
What was Spains primary interest in Mexico and
Peru?

• Gold and silver bullion

4
Who was at the top of the socio-economic order in
the new world?

• Peninsulares (pure European blood)

5
Where was the first English settlement in North
America?

• Jamestown (in the Chesapeake region)

6
What product eventually became the key export of
the Chesapeake?

• Tobacco

7
Who provided much of the labor in the early years
in the Chesapeake? How did they pay for their
passage?

• Indentured servants, 3-7 years of service to
  their master

8
What uprising resulted from tension between
landed and landless in VA during the late 1600s?

• Bacons Rebellion

9
Where did the use of African slaves originate?
What crop was involved?

• West Indies, sugar

10
Where did these sugar growers eventually take the
practice of African slavery?

• The Carolinas, and it eventually spread to
  Virginia

11
What are two key reasons slaves became a more
desirable form of labor than indentured servants?

• Lifetime term of service, property according to
  law (any treatment acceptable), slaves could bear
  more slaves

12
What was the middle passage?

• The journey on slave ships from Africa to the
  colonies

13
Why did the Puritans want to leave England?

• religious persecution

14
What was the basis for Puritan religion? Why was
this significant?

• Calvinism, they believed they were chosen and had
  a covenant with God and each other

15
What colonial region boasted the most religious
diversity? What were some of these groups?

• Middle Colonies, Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans,
  etc.

16
What was it about Pennsylvania that made it a
prosperous center of manufacturing trade?

• A whole lot of hard working, thrifty Quakers

17
What religious movement of the early 1700s was
focused on getting an emotional response from its
audience?

• Great Awakening

18
What city was the finance, trade, and shipping
hub of the New England colonies?

• Boston

19
How did colonial governors view their role?

• Saw themselves as mini kings of their colonies

20
Where did the colonists feel they had legitimate
representation?

• Their colonial assemblies

21
What was the primary cause of the Seven Years
(French Indian) War?

• Claims over colonial territories in North America

22
In the eyes of the British throne, what was the
primary role of the colonies? How did they
ensure this?

• As a source of revenue, a series of trade
  regulations

23
Why did the British begin taxing the colonists in
1763?

• pay for debts incurred in the French Indian (7
  yrs.) War

24
What were the first taxes the British passed?
How did the colonists respond?

• Stamp and Sugar Acts, strongly resisted
  (boycotted, protested, etc.)

25
What was the significance of the Boston Massacre?

• First armed conflict of the revolution

26
What was the British response to the Boston Tea
Party?

• Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts

27
Identify two ways the colonists mobilized
politically after the Intolerable Acts.

• Committees of correspondence First Continental
  Congress

28
What was significant about the First Continental
Congress?

• All colonies acting together in common interest,
  claimed their own political authority

29
What was the dual task of the Second Continental
Congress?

• Trying to negotiate peace with Great Britain
  while simultaneously preparing for war

30
What famous pamphlet in 1776 called for Americans
to reject monarchy support independence? Who
was its author?

• Common Sense, Thomas Paine

31
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence? What does the document do?

• Thomas Jefferson, lays out ideology of the
  revolution and grievances against King George

32
Who was chosen to lead the Colonial Army? What
were some of the challenges he faced?

• George Washington, forming militias into an army,
  lack of funding resources

33
How did the British view their role in the
revolutionary war? How was this reflected in
their tactics?

• Putting down an insurrection, they never pressed
  their strategic advantage

34
What was the key to early British strategy in the
early years of the war?

• Control the Hudson and cut off the revolutionary
  radicals in Massachusetts

35
What colonial victory helped bring increased aid
from the French?

• Defeating Burgoyne at Saratoga

36
After losing patience on their northern strategy,
where did the British turn?

• To the South in an effort to shut down Virginia

37
Where does the Colonial Army finally force the
British to surrender?

• Yorktown, with help from the French navy

38
Identify two key contributions women made to the
revolutionary cause.

• Economic (boycotts), took over household
  economies, supported revolutionary army

39
Which enlightenment thinker advocated a three
branch government?

• Montesquieu

40
Which enlightenment thinker was an advocate for
the protection of natural rights (life,
liberty, property)? Where did they believe these
rights came from?

• Locke, GOD

41
What document set up our nations first
government but ended up giving too much power to
the states?

• Articles of Confederation

42
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation.

• no power to tax, no power to coin money, no
  executive branch, weak central government

43
Why was the question of the western lands so
important? How was it finally resolved?

• States made claims on land all the way to
  Mississippi River, Jefferson and the NW Ordinance

44
What was required for full citizenship (and
voting rights) during the critical period
(1781-1787)?

• Property ownership

45
What uprising of impoverished Revolutionary war
vets clearly demonstrated the weaknesses of the
Articles of Confederation?

• Shays Rebellion

46
What area of the nation abolished slavery after
the adoption of the constitution?

• New England states

47
Where did slavery continue to flourish? Why?

• Southern states, seen as integral to their cash
  crop economy

48
How many houses are their in our Congress? What
are their names?

• 2, the Senate and the House of Representatives

49
Is our government under the Constitution more
republican or democratic?

• Republican (indirect representation)

50
What were the two major compromises made during
the drafting of the United States Constitution?

• Great Compromise (large states House, small
  states Senate), 3/5 Compromise (5 slaves count
  for 3 men)

51
What part of the government did the Federalists
want strengthened in the new constitution?

• the national (Federal) government, get
  itFederalists

52
What group pushed hard for the inclusion of the
Bill of Rights?

• Anti-Federalists

53
What was Hamiltons (the Federalist) vision for
America?

• A country based on manufacturing and a strong
  central government

54
What was Jeffersons (the Democratic Republican)
vision of America?

• Agricultural society, everybody owns land, strong
  states rights