AP US History 2024/2025 Exam
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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An agreement between
Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west
of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly
discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
St. Augustine (1565) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The oldest continually inhabited
European settlement in United States territory.
Mercantilism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔European government policies of the 16th-
18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country & its
colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade
only with their motherland country.
New Amsterdam - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A settlement established by the Dutch
near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island.
Annexed by the English in 1664.
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,New France (1608) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A French colony in North America.
Fell to the British in 1763.
Treaty of Utrecht (1713) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ended the War of Spanish
Succession & recognized France's Philip V as Kind of Spain, but prohibited
the unification of the French and Spanish monarchies; gave England
profitable lands in North America from France.
Jamestown (1607) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔First permanent English settlement in
the New World located in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay/James River;
settled by the Virginia Company of London.
*History:*
Original settlers suffered from disease (especially malaria), internal strife, &
starvation.
*Leaders:*
*John Smith* - Demanded that "He who does not work, will not eat."
*John Rolfe* - Introduced tobacco to the colony.
Bacon's Rebellion (1676) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rebellion of discontent former
landless servants led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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,*Historical Significance:*
Led to a move from indentured servants to African slaves for labor
purposes.
Plymouth (1620) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The first permanent English settlement in
New England; established by religious separatists seeking autonomy from
the church of England.
Pilgrims - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Group of Puritan separatists who established
Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts to seek religious freedom after having
lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Home to many
Puritans who left England because of the persecution they faced from the
Anglican Church.
*History:*
Developed into a theocracy in which the church was central to all decisions;
became the first English colony to establish the basis for a representative
government.
*Leaders:*
*John Winthrop* - Envisioned the colony as a "City upon a Hill."
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, Puritans - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔English religious sect who hoped to "purify" the
Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice & organization.
John Winthrop - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
who was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its
legislative policy; envisioned the colony as a "city upon a hill" from which
Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Roger Williams - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Puritan dissenter who advocated of
religious freedom, the separation of church & state, & fair dealings with
Native Americans; convicted of sedition & heresy & banished from the
colony; founded Providence Plantation (RI) in 1636.
Anne Hutchinson - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Puritan dissenter who challenged the
authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the
culture of colonial Massachusetts; tried, convicted, & banished from the
colony in 1637.
William Penn - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An English Quaker who founded
Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
Maryland Toleration Act (1649) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The first law on religious
tolerance in the British North America; allowed freedom of worship for all
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Latest Update
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An agreement between
Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west
of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly
discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
St. Augustine (1565) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The oldest continually inhabited
European settlement in United States territory.
Mercantilism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔European government policies of the 16th-
18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country & its
colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade
only with their motherland country.
New Amsterdam - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A settlement established by the Dutch
near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island.
Annexed by the English in 1664.
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,New France (1608) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A French colony in North America.
Fell to the British in 1763.
Treaty of Utrecht (1713) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ended the War of Spanish
Succession & recognized France's Philip V as Kind of Spain, but prohibited
the unification of the French and Spanish monarchies; gave England
profitable lands in North America from France.
Jamestown (1607) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔First permanent English settlement in
the New World located in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay/James River;
settled by the Virginia Company of London.
*History:*
Original settlers suffered from disease (especially malaria), internal strife, &
starvation.
*Leaders:*
*John Smith* - Demanded that "He who does not work, will not eat."
*John Rolfe* - Introduced tobacco to the colony.
Bacon's Rebellion (1676) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rebellion of discontent former
landless servants led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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,*Historical Significance:*
Led to a move from indentured servants to African slaves for labor
purposes.
Plymouth (1620) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The first permanent English settlement in
New England; established by religious separatists seeking autonomy from
the church of England.
Pilgrims - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Group of Puritan separatists who established
Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts to seek religious freedom after having
lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Home to many
Puritans who left England because of the persecution they faced from the
Anglican Church.
*History:*
Developed into a theocracy in which the church was central to all decisions;
became the first English colony to establish the basis for a representative
government.
*Leaders:*
*John Winthrop* - Envisioned the colony as a "City upon a Hill."
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, Puritans - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔English religious sect who hoped to "purify" the
Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice & organization.
John Winthrop - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
who was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its
legislative policy; envisioned the colony as a "city upon a hill" from which
Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Roger Williams - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Puritan dissenter who advocated of
religious freedom, the separation of church & state, & fair dealings with
Native Americans; convicted of sedition & heresy & banished from the
colony; founded Providence Plantation (RI) in 1636.
Anne Hutchinson - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Puritan dissenter who challenged the
authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the
culture of colonial Massachusetts; tried, convicted, & banished from the
colony in 1637.
William Penn - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An English Quaker who founded
Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
Maryland Toleration Act (1649) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The first law on religious
tolerance in the British North America; allowed freedom of worship for all
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