AP US History Unit 1 questions 2024
Walter Raleigh - Founder of England's first American colony. (Roanoke, it failed)
Elizabeth I - English Queen during golden age. Reestablished Protestantism as the
state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Treaty of Tordesillas - a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring
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.
Pocahontas - a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the
English at Jamestown. Marriage to John Rolfe = first interracial union in america=
Peace settlement ending the Anglo-Powhatan War
John Rolfe - He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married
Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure
it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
Defeat of the Spanish Armada - 1588 by Elizabeth 1 of England, English naval
supremacy.
,AP US History Unit 1 questions 2024
john smith - Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict
discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
Jamestown - Founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London.elected Captain
John Smith as their leader.
Thomas Dale - Made governor of Jamestown after John Smith, stern, didn't
believe in laziness, created daily schedule
John Calvin - INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: emphasized predestination
and he rejected the medieval Church. he believed that the church and state
should be united under the Calvinist faith
John Winthrop - Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a
"city upon a hill" (covenant theology)
Peter Stuyvesant - The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam
(netherland?), hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English
on Sept. 8, 1664.
, AP US History Unit 1 questions 2024
Anne Hutchinson - A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious
and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She
challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her
ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are
not bound by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers,
and went and settled at Rode Island, killed by indians
King Phillips War - Started over land ownership disagreements. The War Between
the Puritans and the Pequot, Narragansett,Wampanog, and Nipmunk indians.
armed indians in raiding NE towns, eng & allies won, survivors fled N, increase
indian hate
Roger Williams - He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He
believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Dominion of New england - 1686-The British government combined the colonies
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single
province headed by a royal governor (Andros) Charters and self rule were revoked,
and the king enforced mercantile laws. The new setup also made for more
efficient administration of English Navigation Laws, as well as a better defense
system.
Walter Raleigh - Founder of England's first American colony. (Roanoke, it failed)
Elizabeth I - English Queen during golden age. Reestablished Protestantism as the
state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Treaty of Tordesillas - a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring
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.
Pocahontas - a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the
English at Jamestown. Marriage to John Rolfe = first interracial union in america=
Peace settlement ending the Anglo-Powhatan War
John Rolfe - He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married
Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure
it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
Defeat of the Spanish Armada - 1588 by Elizabeth 1 of England, English naval
supremacy.
,AP US History Unit 1 questions 2024
john smith - Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict
discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
Jamestown - Founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London.elected Captain
John Smith as their leader.
Thomas Dale - Made governor of Jamestown after John Smith, stern, didn't
believe in laziness, created daily schedule
John Calvin - INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: emphasized predestination
and he rejected the medieval Church. he believed that the church and state
should be united under the Calvinist faith
John Winthrop - Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a
"city upon a hill" (covenant theology)
Peter Stuyvesant - The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam
(netherland?), hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English
on Sept. 8, 1664.
, AP US History Unit 1 questions 2024
Anne Hutchinson - A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious
and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She
challenged the principles of Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her
ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are
not bound by moral law. She was latter expelled, with her family and followers,
and went and settled at Rode Island, killed by indians
King Phillips War - Started over land ownership disagreements. The War Between
the Puritans and the Pequot, Narragansett,Wampanog, and Nipmunk indians.
armed indians in raiding NE towns, eng & allies won, survivors fled N, increase
indian hate
Roger Williams - He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He
believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Dominion of New england - 1686-The British government combined the colonies
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single
province headed by a royal governor (Andros) Charters and self rule were revoked,
and the king enforced mercantile laws. The new setup also made for more
efficient administration of English Navigation Laws, as well as a better defense
system.
