AP Test Review (APUSH) Exam/149
Questions and Answers
Iroquios Confederacy - -A powerful alliance of Indian tribes that was the only
one to remain neutral during the French and Indian War (Seven years' war).
The tribe had previously been subject of a peace treaty with the British and
were noted as one of three powers of North America. After the Seven Years'
War the alliance with the Iroquois and the British diminished and they began
contesting each other for power over the Ohio Valey.
-Columbian Exchange - -An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old
World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America)
and vice versa. The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the
colonization of the Americas.
-Joint Stock Company - -A company made up of a group of shareholders.
Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives
some share of the company's profits and debts.
-Virginia Company - -1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization
in Jamestown, VA. English men didn't want to work/build colony. IT was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with
indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists
established trade with the indians the colony survived. This was the first
permeant english settlement.
-Jamestown - -1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn't want to work/build colony. IT was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with
indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists
established trade with the indians the colony survived. This was the first
permeant english settlement.
-Indentured Servant - -Worked for 7 years without pay in exchange for
passage to the new world.
-Headright Sysytem - -This system offered a powerful incentive for ordinary
English farmers to settle in Virginia, promised a the possibility of large
agricultural enterprise worked by many laborers to the wealthy, ensured a
way for farmers to simultaneously obtain both land and labor by importing
workers for England, and eventually authorized landowning men of VA to
elect representatives to the House of Burgesses.
, -Bacon's Rebellion - -1676, 29 year old Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen
who had been forced into the untamed backcountry in search of arable land
to brutally attack Indians, friendly and hostile alike. Bacon and the others
were tired of Berkeley refusing to retaliate after some Indians attacked their
frontier settlements. The rebels also chased Berkeley from Jamestown and
"put the torch to the capital".
-Stono Rebellion - -a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the
colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British
mainland colonies, with 21 whites and 44 blacks killed.
-Puritans - -a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and
17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England
under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of
worship.
-John Winthrop - -a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading
figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major
settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony.
-"City Upon A Hill" - -initially invoked by English-born Puritan leader John
Winthrop. The concept became central to the United States' conception of
itself as an exceptional and exemplary nation.
-Anne Hutchinson - -a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important
participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant
Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
-Roger Williams - -an English Protestant theologian who was an early
proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In
1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge
for religious minorities
-"Halfway Covenant" - -Modified the "covenant", or the agreement between
the church and its adherents, to admit to baptism - but not "full communion"
- the unconverted children of existing members. Weakened the distinction
between the "elect" and others. Further diluted the spiritual purity of the
original settlers' godly community.
-King Philips War - -the most devastating war between the colonists and the
Native Americans in New England.
-First Great Awakening - -an evangelical and revitalization movement that
swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American
colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American
Protestantism.
Questions and Answers
Iroquios Confederacy - -A powerful alliance of Indian tribes that was the only
one to remain neutral during the French and Indian War (Seven years' war).
The tribe had previously been subject of a peace treaty with the British and
were noted as one of three powers of North America. After the Seven Years'
War the alliance with the Iroquois and the British diminished and they began
contesting each other for power over the Ohio Valey.
-Columbian Exchange - -An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old
World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America)
and vice versa. The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the
colonization of the Americas.
-Joint Stock Company - -A company made up of a group of shareholders.
Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives
some share of the company's profits and debts.
-Virginia Company - -1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization
in Jamestown, VA. English men didn't want to work/build colony. IT was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with
indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists
established trade with the indians the colony survived. This was the first
permeant english settlement.
-Jamestown - -1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn't want to work/build colony. IT was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with
indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists
established trade with the indians the colony survived. This was the first
permeant english settlement.
-Indentured Servant - -Worked for 7 years without pay in exchange for
passage to the new world.
-Headright Sysytem - -This system offered a powerful incentive for ordinary
English farmers to settle in Virginia, promised a the possibility of large
agricultural enterprise worked by many laborers to the wealthy, ensured a
way for farmers to simultaneously obtain both land and labor by importing
workers for England, and eventually authorized landowning men of VA to
elect representatives to the House of Burgesses.
, -Bacon's Rebellion - -1676, 29 year old Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen
who had been forced into the untamed backcountry in search of arable land
to brutally attack Indians, friendly and hostile alike. Bacon and the others
were tired of Berkeley refusing to retaliate after some Indians attacked their
frontier settlements. The rebels also chased Berkeley from Jamestown and
"put the torch to the capital".
-Stono Rebellion - -a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the
colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British
mainland colonies, with 21 whites and 44 blacks killed.
-Puritans - -a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and
17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England
under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of
worship.
-John Winthrop - -a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading
figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major
settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony.
-"City Upon A Hill" - -initially invoked by English-born Puritan leader John
Winthrop. The concept became central to the United States' conception of
itself as an exceptional and exemplary nation.
-Anne Hutchinson - -a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important
participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant
Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
-Roger Williams - -an English Protestant theologian who was an early
proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In
1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge
for religious minorities
-"Halfway Covenant" - -Modified the "covenant", or the agreement between
the church and its adherents, to admit to baptism - but not "full communion"
- the unconverted children of existing members. Weakened the distinction
between the "elect" and others. Further diluted the spiritual purity of the
original settlers' godly community.
-King Philips War - -the most devastating war between the colonists and the
Native Americans in New England.
-First Great Awakening - -an evangelical and revitalization movement that
swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American
colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American
Protestantism.
