APUSH Key Events?

Question 1

House of Burgesses

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legislature of colonial Virginia. First rep government in English colonies

Question 2

Beaver Wars

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between 1640 and 1680, Iroquois fought French for fur trade control in east/Great Lakes region

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Virginia Company

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group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607

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Puritans

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people who believed Queen Elizabeth’s reforms were insufficient, led Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Massachusetts Bay Company

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group of wealthy Puritans who got a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts

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Frame of Government

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William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania, with freedom of religion

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Pequot War

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Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in east Connecticut

Question 8

King William’s War

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first of colonial struggles between England and France. occur on frontiers of north New England and New York between 1689 and 1697

Question 9

Pueblo Revolt

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rebellion in 1680 of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico against Spain

Question 10

Great Awakening

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large N American religious revival, starting in middle colonies and New England in 1740s then going south

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Stono Rebellion

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one of the largest and most violent slave uprisings during colonial period that occurred in Stono, South Carolina

Question 12

Queen Anne’s War

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1702-1713, Americans involved in Europe’s War of the Spanish Succession

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King George’s War

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third Anglo-French war in N America (1744-1748), part of the War of the Austrian Succession

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enumerated goods

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items produced in colonies and sent to locations dictated by Parliament

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Act of Toleration

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Act passed in 1661 by King Charles II, ordered stop to all religious persecution in Massachusetts

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Enlightenment

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intellectual movement stressing importance of reason and natural laws

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Calvinist theology of election

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belief that salvation was the result of God’s sovereign decree and that few people would receive God’s grace

Question 18

New Lights

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people who joined Christianity during Great Awakening

Question 19

Old Lights

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people who like old religion, no personal relationship with God

Question 20

Albany Conference

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1754, meeting between British and Iroquois leaders

Question 21

Plan of Union

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Ben Franklin in 1754, called for intercolonial union to manage defense and Indian affairs. The plan was rejected by participants at the Albany Congress

Question 22

French and Indian WAr

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last of Anglo-French colonial wars, first where fighting began in N America. aka 7 Years’ War

Question 23

Treaty of Paris

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formal end to British hostilities against France and Spain in February, 1763

Question 24

Royal Proclamation of 1763

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royal proclamation declaring trans-Appalachian region to be Indian Country

Question 25

Sugar Act

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1764, raise revenue in American colonies. lowered price from 6 to 3 pence per gallon on foreign molasses imported into the colonies + increased restrictions on colonial commerce

Question 26

Stamp Act

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law passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise revenue by requiring taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards

Question 27

Sons of Liberty

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secret organizations in the colonies formed to oppose the Stamp Act

Question 28

nonimportation movement

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not buying British goods to put economic pressure

Question 29

Declaratory Act

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1776, accompany repeal of Stamp Act that stated that Parliament had authority to make legislature for colonies

Question 30

Townshend Revenue Acts

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many acts, 1767, duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, glass

Question 31

Boston Massacre

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March 5, 1770; British troops fired on American civilians in Boston

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Tea Act

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act that gave East India Company rights to sell through agents in America without paying the duty, reducing retail price

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Boston Tea Party

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December 16, 1773; Bostonians destroyed a lot of British East India tea to prevent payment of the duty on it

Question 34

Coercive Acts

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1774; Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act

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Intolerable Acts

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America term for the Coercive Acts + Quebec Act

Question 36

Quartering Act

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Americans had to house British troops if they asked

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Quebec Act

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1774; provided appointed government for Canada, enlarged boundaries of Quebec, and confirmed privileges of Catholic Church

Question 38

First Continental Congress

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Meeting of delegates from most of colonies held in 1774 in response to the Coercive Acts

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Continental Army

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regular or professional army authorized by the SEcond Continental Congress and commanded by Gen. Washington during Revolutionary War

Question 40

Articles of Confederation

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written document setting up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the United States

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Act passed by Congress under Articles of Confederation, creating grid system of surveys by which all subsequent public land was made available for sale

Question 42

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Legislation that prohibited slaver in the NW Territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as coequal states

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Bill of Rights

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written summary of inalienable rights an dliberties, first ten amendments

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Constitutional Convention

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convention of delegates form the colonies that first met to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts

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Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

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a bill authored by Thomas Jefferson establishing religious freedom in Virginia

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Annapolis convention

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conference of state delegates at Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in Sept. 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes

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Virginia Plan

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proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population

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New Jersey Plan

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proposal of the NJ delegation for a strengthened national government in which all states would have an equal representation in a unicameral legislature

Question 49

Great Compromise

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2787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in Senate, proportionally represented in House

Question 50

Federalists

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supporters of Constitution

Question 51

Anti-Federalists

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opposed to Constitution

Question 52

Judiciary Act of 1789

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Act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the constitution by establishing the Supreme Court and a system of lower federal courts

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Intercourse Act

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1790; regulated trade with Indian tribes, declared public treaties between US and Indian nations the only means of obtaining Indian lands

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Whiskey Rebellion

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armed uprising in 1794 by farmers, W Penn., to prevent collection of excise tax on whiskey. Washington harsh reaction

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Treaty of Greenville

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1795; natives in Old NW were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the US

Question 56

Jay's Treaty

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treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the US made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships