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Hernan cortes
conquers Aztecs in mexico
Franscico pizzaro
CONQUISADOR LED 168 SOLIDERS AND 68 HORSES HIGH INTO ANDES MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH AMERICA AND FOUND THE EMPIRE OF THE INCAS
Juan ponce de leon
1ST EUROPEAN TO SET FOOT IN FLORIDA SPANISH EXPLORER AND SOLDIER
St. augustine-
first euopean town 1565
CHristopher Newport
captian of English who drove the susan constant ,god speed ,and discovery SHIPS
The starving time
jameston VA winter no food or supplies
Silk road-
PASSED THROUGH THE DOMAINS OF CENTRAL ASIAN TRIBESMAN WHO LIVED BY PREYING ON TRADE
The crusades
RELIGION BATTLE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS
Marco polo
Marco Polo is famous for his travels through Asia. He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China
Northwest passage
not real passage that Europeans wouldhave went to north pole
Amerigo vespuuci
america is named after him; maps Christopher Columbus area founded new lands
PRINCE henry THE NAVIGATOR
MADE A SHORT SEA VOYAGE HELP MAKE A PASSAGE OF TRADE TO ASIA FROM PORTUGAL
Ferdinand mAgellan
FOUND AN ALL WATER ROUTE TO PACIFIC BY SOUTH AMERICA
Treaty of tordesillas
spain got western half Portugal got eastern side ( new world)
Santa fe
oldest capital city in us
Bartholomeu diaZ
Portuguese navigator who discovered the route to India
Vasco de gama
REACHED THE INDIAN PORT OF CALICUT AND RETURN WITH A 2000 PERCENT PROFIT
Christopher Columbus
4 TIMES CARRIED LETTERS FROM ISABELLA AND FERINAD TO JAPAN AND CHINA AND HE THOUGHT HE REACHED SOME OF THE 7, 448, ISLANDS THAT MARCO POLO SAID RINGED EAST INDIA
Caravel-
type of ships CC
Protestant reformation
CHANGE FROM CATHOLIC TO PROTESTANTISM
MARTIN LUTHER
WROTE THE 95 THESES
95 THESES
WROTE ABOUT CATHOLISM AND SET OFF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
JOHANNES GUTENBURG
PRINTING PRESS INVENTOR
KING HENRY VIII
BREAKS WTH CATHOLIC CHURCH
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
SEPARTION OF CHURCH AND STATE
QUEEN ELIZABETH
PROTESTANTKING HENRY THE 8TH'S DAUGHTER
JOHN CABOT
1ST PERSON TO LAND IN AMERICA 1497
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
1ST TO START A COLONY IN NEWFOUNDLAND
SIR WALTER RALIGH
FOUND A THE COLNY OF ROANOKE
ROANOKE
SIR WALTER RALIGH
JOHN WHITE
GOVONOR OF ROANOKE COLONY
FRANCIS DRAKE
SEA DOG AND EXPLORER WHO EXPLORED PART OF CALI
LAW OF PRIMOGENTITURE
1ST SON OF THE FAMILY INHERITED EVERYTHING
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
OLD WORLD NEW WORLDS TRADE
ENCLOSURE MOVEMENT
PURCHASURERS OF MONASTARY LANDS OFTEN EXPELLED THE PESANTS WHO HAD WORKED THEM AS TENANTS AND TURNED THE FIELDS INTO PASTURES FOR SHEEP ENCLOSING THE FIELDS WITH HEDGES
JOINT STOCK COMPANY
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
VIRGINA COMPANY
PROFIT PPL AND SEEK FORTUNES LEADER WAS JOHN SMITH
JAMESTOWN
JOHN SMITH
POWHATAN
INDIAN CHIEF
JOHN SMITH
EXPLORER
LADY REBECCA
POCOHAUNTAS
JOHN ROLFE
POCAHAUNTAS'S HUSBAND
HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
A headright is a legal grant of land to settlers
STAPLE CROP
A staple food is a food that can be stored for use throughout the year (or produced fresh any time of the year)
INDENTURED SERVANTS
VOUNTARY SERVANTS
FEUDALSIM
1.The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection
VIRGINA HOUSE OF BURGESSES
MAKING LAWS TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries. ...
JOHN CALVIN
BELIEVED THE SAVE OR DAMNED THING
PURITIANS
REFORM CHURCH OF ENGLAND
HAMPTON COURT CONFERENCE
CALLED ON JAMES THE 1ST COPROMISE TO TO PURTITIANS KING JAMES VERISON OF THE BIBLE
PILGRIMS
SEPARITISTS OF CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WILLIAM BRADFORD
ONE OF THE PILGRIM LEADERS
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
ONE OF THE VERY FIRST CONSTITUTIONS SAID ENTERING A COMPACT WITH EACH OTHER
GEORGE CALVERT
LORD BALTIMORE
MARYLAND
GEORGE CALVERT ONLY FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES IN MIND; SOUTHERN CATHOLIC
THANKSGIVING
CELEBRATES SEPARISTS: HOLIDAY DURING CIVIL WAR
JOHN WITHROUP
LEADER OF PURITIANS
ARBELLA
JOHN WITHROUPES SHIP
ROGER WILLIAMS
FINDS RHODE ISLAND
ANNE HUTCHINSON
BANNED FROM RHODE ISLAND SMART AND GREAT BRAVE LADY READ BIBLE
NEW YORK
NEW NETHERLANDS BECAME NEW YORK
GEORGE FOX
FOUNDED QUAKER MOVEMENT
QUAKER
PACIFISTS NO CLERGY(PRIEST) NO CATHOLIC NO CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WILLAM PENN
FOUNDED PENNSLYVANIA
JAMES OGLETHROPE
PUT IN COMMAND OF GEORGIA
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
SUN IS THE SET OF THE UNIVERSE
ISSACC NEWTON
GRAVITY
JOHANNES KEPLER
ORBIT MAN; KNEW EARTH HAD A SET PATTERN JUST DIDNT KNOW WHAT
DEISM
GOD SET A CLOCK AND LET HER RUN SONNY
BEN FRANKLIN
VERY FAMOUS FOR CONSTITUION ETC
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
1.The war between Charles I and his Parliamentary opponents, 1642–49
OLIVER CROMWELL
LEADER OF THE NEW MODERN ARMY DEFEATED CALVERLIERS KING CHARLES THE 2ND IS PUT TO DEATH
MERCANTILISM
STRENGEN ENGLAND (EUROPE) BY INCREASING NATIONS HOARD OF COIN GOLD AND SILVER
COMMONWEALTH
1.An independent country or community, esp. a democratic republic
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange
JOHN LOCKE
POLICTICAL PHILOSPHER
TWO TREATIES
WROTE BY JOHN LOCKE AND WROTE IT BECAUSE 2. KING DOESNT RULE IN DEVINE RIGHT AND HOW GOV SHOULD BE RUN UNWRITTEN CONTRACT WITH PPL
GEORGE WASHINGTON
BATTLE HERO AND IST PRESIDENT
OHIO COMPANY
The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the colonization of the Ohio Country. The activities of the company helped to provoke the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
PONTIAC'S REBELLION
Pontiac's War was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory
FORT NECESSITY
WASNT A TRUE FORT JUST SOMETHING SLAPPED TOGETHER
WHIG
a former political party in the United States; formed in 1834 in opposition to the Democratic Party; advocated a loose interpretation of the Constitution and high protective tariffs
ACADINS
The Acadians (Acadiens) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located in the Canadian Maritime provinces — Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and in the US state of Maine
EDWARD BRADOCK
A COMMANDER AND GENERAL LED TROOPS TO VIRGINIA
FORT DUQUENSNE
FRENCH BUILT THIS
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war
KING GEORGE THE 3RD
George's reign were marked by political instability, largely generated as a result of disagreements over the Seven Years' War.[2
WRITS OF ASSISTANCE
BOARD SEARCH WARRENTS EMPOWERING CUSTOMS AGENTS TO ENTER WAREHOUSES AND HOMES ATO SEARCH FOR AND EVIDENCE OF SMUGGLING
JAMES OTIS
LED THE WRITS OF ASSISTANCE
george grenvile
FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF KING GEORGE IN ENGLAND
robert walpole
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
period of salutary neglect
BEST WAY TO MANAGE THE COLONIES WAS TO GOVERN THEM AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE: ROBERT WALPOLE'S IDEA
sugar act
CLEAN UP CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS AND TO GENERATE REVENUE TO REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT
vice admiralty court
(Vice admiralty court) Vice admiralty courts were juryless courts located in British colonies that were granted jurisdiction over local legal matters related to maritime activities, such as disputes between merchants and seamen
CURRENCY ACT
The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. The policy created tension between the colonies and Great Britain, and was cited as a grievance by colonists early in the American Revolution.
QUARTERING ACT
REQUIRED EACH COLONY TO PROVIDE FOOD DRINK AND SHLETER FOR THE SOLDIERS STATIONED WITHIN THEIR BORDERS; SAVED BRITIAN MONEY
STAMP ACT
TAX ON PAPERS BEING PRINTED; NEWSPAPERS ETC
SONS OF LIBERTY
ORGANIZATION AND A PHRASE USED TO DESCRIBE AMERICANS BY ONE OF THERI SUPPORTERS IN PARLIMENT ISACC BARE
SAMUEL ADAMS
BREWER ANS TAX COLLECTOR; HELP GAIN INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITIAN
VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION
In the early stages of the American Revolution, colonists in the Thirteen Colonies rejected legislation imposed upon them by the British Parliament because the colonies were not represented in Parliament
STAMP ACT CRISIS
The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America
DECLARTORY ACT
REPUBLICATE AMERICAN CLAIMS FOR THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR OWN ASSEMBLIES
BOSTON MASSACRE
BRITISH SOLIDERS KILLED 5 AMERICANS BUT THEY GOT A SLAP ON THER WRIST PRETTY MUCH BLAMED THE MOB
JOHN ADAMS
COUSIN TO SAMUEL ADAMS REPRESENTED THE SOLIDERS IN COURT
TEA ACT
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price
BOSTON TEA PARTY
SONS OF LIBERTY1.A violent demonstration in 1773 by American colonists before the American Revolution. Colonists boarded vessels in Boston harbor and threw the cargoes of tea into the water in protest at the imposition of a tax on tea by the British Parliament, in which the colonists had no representation
COERCIVE ACTS
Shocked by the Boston Tea Party, Parliament adopted a series of legislative bills, collectively known as the Coercive Acts. They were intended to punish Boston but caused widespread concern in the colonies because they seemed to violate the sanctity of local political institutions.
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
1.Each of the three congresses held by the American colonies (in 1774, 1775, and 1776, respectively) in revolt against British rule. The second Congress, convened in the wake of the battles at Lexington and Concord, created a Continental Army, which fought and eventually won the American Revolution
SUFFOLK RESOLVES
THE COERVIVE ACTS WERE NULL AND VOID THROUGH THIS
Articles of Confederation
created the "united states" 1st american consittuiton but did not create the nation
Treaty of Alliance, 1778
with France, was a defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future.
Peace of Paris, 1783
map of the continent was redrawn, great britain took florida from spain and all of canada from france etc
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 stated that they would separate the Northwest land into something called TOWNSHIPS. This was a 5 by 5 mile land and was sold to settlers and speculators.
Northwest Ordinance
selling of ohio indiana michigan illinois wisconison
Robert Morris
financier, supported patriot cause
Newburgh Conspiracy
among officers of the American Continental Army due to many officers and men of the Army not receiving pay for many years. Commander-in-Chief George Washington stopped any serious talk by appealing successfully to his officers to support the supremacy of Congress.[1] The officers had been promised a lifetime pension of half pay; instead, Congress gave them five years full pay.
Federalists
replace a genuinely federated gov with a more centralized one
Mt. Vernon Meeting (1785)
was a meeting of delegates from Virginia and Maryland at George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia in March 1785. It preceded the Annapolis Convention of the following year and was a precursor of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention that saw the drafting of the United States Constitution.
Shays’ Rebellion
farmers in west mass. resented the fact that states tax laws favored trade at the expense of arigculture
Constitutional Convention
making of constituition in 1787
John Adams
2nd pres and a founding father
Thomas Jefferson
founding father writer of constitution
New Jersey Plan
a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state
William Paterson
Paterson, William, 1658-1719, British financier. By the time of the Glorious Revolution (1688-89, which he supported), he had acquired considerable wealth and influence through foreign trade. In 1691, he was the chief projector of the plan to establish the Bank of England, which finally came into being in 1694.
Virginia Plan
was a proposal by Virginia delegates, drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed National Legislature.
James Madison
secretary of state under thomas j and involved in marbury vs madison
Connecticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise , also known as the Great Compromise , was an essential agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Context
Roger Sherman
help write thr constituion poor background
George Washington
1st president
Compact Theory
theory relating to the development of the Constitution of the United States of America, claiming that the formation of the nation was through a compact by all of the states individually and that the national government is consequently a creation of the states.
X, Y, Z Affair
pinckney, marshall and gerry code names
The Hartford Convention
Dec. 15, 1814-Jan. 4, 1815, meeting to consider the problems of New England in the War of 1812; held at Hartford, Conn. Prior to the war, New England Federalists (see Federalist party) had opposed the Embargo Act of 1807 and other government measures; many of them continued to oppose the government after fighting had begun
Aaron Burr
A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a valiant soldier in early campaigns. In 1779 ill health forced him to leave the army. Upon admission (1782) to the bar, he plunged energetically into the practice of both law and politics. He served as a member (1784-85; 1797-99) of the New York assembly, as state attorney general (1789-91), and as U.S. Senator (1791-97).
midnight judges”
epresented an effort to solve an issue in the Supreme Court during the late 18th century. There was concern, beginning in 1789, about the system that required the justices of the Supreme Court to “ride circuit” and reiterate decisions made in the appellate level courts. The Supreme Court justices often took advantage of opportunities to voice concern and to suggest that the judges of the Supreme and circuit courts be divided. The Act reduced the number of seats on the Supreme Court from 6 to 5, effective upon the next vacancy in the Court.
fire eaters
extremist pro- slavery politicians from the South who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation, which became known as the Confederate States of America.
Monroe Doctrine
principle of American foreign policy enunciated in President James Monroe's message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. It initially called for an end to European intervention in the Americas, but it was later extended to justify U.S. imperialism in the Western Hemisphere.
South Carolina Exposition
also known as Calhoun's Exposition , was written in 1828 by John C. Calhoun, the Vice President of the United States under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun did not formally state his authorship at the time, though it was known.
The document was a protest against the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. The document stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It stated also Calhoun's Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
Martin Van Buren
8th President of the United States
war of 1812
etween the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's ongoing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honour after humiliations on the high seas and possible American desire to annex Canada [3].