history midterm 2015 Flashcards
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People who move from place to place
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Nomads
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They use this to see how old something was when it was once alive
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Radiocarbon dating
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Maize
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Corn
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Underground house built by the Anasazi for worship
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Kivas
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A system that promises land and protection in return for work and military support
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Feudalism
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Rebirth in the interest in learning
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Renaissance
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A new type of ship that was used by early explorers to the Americas that contained the ballas, the lateen sails
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Caravel
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A navigating device that uses the sun location in relationship to the horizon to determine where they were
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Astrolabe
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The exchange of goods between the old world and the new world after Columbus discovered the Americas
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Colombian exchange
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Spanish conqueror
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Conquistadors
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Separatists who wanted to separate themselves from the English church; founded Plymouth colony
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Pilgrims
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Wanted to purify the English church if Catholic rituals. They left because they were persecuted. Founded Massachusetts
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Puritans
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Spanish ranch
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Hacienda
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Land the conquistadors gave the people they fought for them. Included land, and natives who worked on it
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Encomienda
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The leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves to America.
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Middle Passage
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Trade between Old world (Europe), New world (America), Africa
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Triangular trade
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Person skilled in a creative craft
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Artisan
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Idea that a country’s power depended on its wealth
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Merchantilism
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Age of reason. Idea that all problems in the world can be solved by logic and reason
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Enlightenment
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A person who worked for so many years to get their passage to America
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Indentured servant
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Search warrant
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Writ of assistance
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Militia for the American army that could be ready in a minute
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Minutemen
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Person who was loyal and thought we shouldn’t have a revolution against the king
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Loyalist
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Someone loyal to the revolution
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Patriot
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Where people have the power through voting; select their own form of government
Republic
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Freeing of slaves
Emancipation
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The idea that people should be able to choose their form of government
Popular sovereignty
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Change to the constitution; 27 to our constitution
Amendment
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People who wanted the constitution to be ratified; wrote 88 papers encouraging the ratification of the constitution
Federalists
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People who did not want the constitution to be ratification
Anti-Federalist
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Approval of the constitution; 9 of 13 colonies has to agree for it to be passed
Ratification
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The steps that government must take to ensure that everyone is treated equally under the law
Due process
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First 10 amendments of the constitution
Bill of Rights
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The idea that law passed by congress is unconstitutional they can declare a law invalid or not obey it
Nullification
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The right of the Supreme Court to declare a law passed by congress to be unconstitutional. The case that established this was Marbury v. Madison
Judicial review
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The largest group of the social status; small land holders
Yeoman Farmer
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When John Adams gave Clay a cabinet post because he swung his support to him during the election
Corrupt bargain
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Conquered the Incas
Fransisco Pizarro
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He landed in the Bahamas on San Salvador Island
Christopher Columbus
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Means "Ancient ones" lived in the American Southwest; built a city called Pueblo Ponito located in Chaco canyon; later moved to Mesa Verdes
Anasazi
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A Portugal prince who set up a school to teach captains how to navigate
Henry the Navigator
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First to lead a group that circumnavigated the globe. He didn't because he died
Ferdinand Magellan
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Conquered the Aztec
Hernan Cortez
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Explored the St. Lawrence River; claimed all of was it now Canada for France and named it New France
Jacques Cartier
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Leader of the Jamestown colony; established relationships with the Powhotan people
John Smith
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Daughter of the leader of the Powhotan people; according to him she saved John Smith; married John Rolfe
Pocahontas
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He helped the pilgrims survive and celebrated the first Thanksgiving with them; taught them how to grow corn
Squanto
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Hid the charter for 4 years to become the head of the Massachusetts Bay colony
John Winthrop
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Founded Pennsylvania
William Penn
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Led a revolt of the backcountry farmers against the governor of Virginia
Nathaniel Bacon
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His ideas were the basis of Thomas Jeffersons writing if the Declaration of Independence; British philosopher; wrote Two Treaties of Government
John Locke
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Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis; the Crisis was read at Valley Forge
Thomas Paine
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Leader of the sons of liberty in Boston
Sam Adams
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Silversmith in Boston; member of the Son of Liberty; wrote pamphlets to encourage revolution; rode to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord
Paul a Revere
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3rd President; wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence; interested in the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
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British General in command of British troops in North America after Gage resigned
William Howe
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Swamp-fox; led guerrilla group in South Carolina
Francis Marion
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British General in the south; surrender to the Americans at Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis
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1st President; leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
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Wrote the Virginia Plan; called Father of Our Constitution; wrote constitution for Virginia; also a President
James Madison
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Explored the Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clarke
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Went with Lewis and Clarke Mandan port, western to her people to get horses
Sacajawea
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Representative in congress from Kentucky; fought for states rights; entered into the Corrupt bargain with Adams
Henry Clay
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Called "Old Hickory"; president of the U.S.; General in the American Army; indian fighter; hero in the Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
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Invented the telegraph and Morse Code
Samuel Morse
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Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
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Invented the Steamboat
Robert Fulton
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Led a rebellion against slave holders in Virgina; killed a lot of women and children; tried and executed
Nat Turner
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First permanent European settlement in the new world
Santo Domingo
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Where Columbus landed in the Bahamas
San Salvador
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First permanent Spanish settlement in North America (present day US)
St. Augustine
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The oldest permanent French settlement in North America
Quebec
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Capital city of the Aztecs; Mexico City is built on this site
Tenochtitlán
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Oldest permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
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The landbridge
Beringia
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Where pueblo ponito was built
Chaco Canyon
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Found in 1620 by the Pilgrims; in Massachusetts
Plymouth
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Battle in which Americans fought the British hard enough that caused them to withdrawal from Boston
Bunker Hill
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First shots of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
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Where Washingtons troops spent the harsh winter
Valley Forge
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Last major of the Revolutionary War
Yorktown
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Turning point of the war in the north
Saratoga
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Where the first and second continental congress met
Philadelphia
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First english settlement in North America (not permanent)
Roanoke Island
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Turning point for the war in the south
Kings Mountain
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Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on
Breeds hill
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The bring of William and Mary to the throne of English; no blood shed
Glorious Revolution
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Fought over the Ohio River Valley
French and Indian War
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First direct tax on American colonists
Stamp Act
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People who wanted a revolution
Sons of Liberty
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A conflict between civilians and Briitish soldier from Boston Common; 4 people died; Forst was Crispus Aticks
Boston Massacre
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Agreement sent to King George to avoid war; he rejected it
Olive Branch Petition
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Our first government as a country
Articles of Confederation
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Plan for a constitution presented by James Madison who wrote it; most was used for our Constitution; one compromise, The Great Compromise (set up the senate to have two reps from each state, the houses reps based on population)
Virginia Plan
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Established judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
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Bought Louisiana from France; explored by Lewis and Clarke from 1804-1806
Louisiana Purchase
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Determined how the land would be divided in North west territory and governed
Northwest Ordinance
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When the sons of liberty threw tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
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A document stating that countries are no longer open for European civilizations
Monroe Doctrine
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Drew a line in the Louisiana Territory. North of the line=slate state. South of the line=free state
The Missouri Compromise
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Also known as the Great Compromise which determined representation in the house of the Senate
Connecticut Compromise
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founded Plymouth colony
Pilgrims
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They left England because they were persecuted.
Puritans
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Founded Massachusetts
Puritans
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The Anasazi built a city called ____ located in Chaco canyon; later moved to Mesa Verdes
Pueblo Ponito
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The Crisis was read at ______
Valley Forge
