BARRATT – U.S. HISTORY I MIDTERM: STUDY SHEET

UNIT 1 – EUROPEAN EXPLORATION/COLONIZATION
Portugal
Slave Trade
Renaissance
Causes for European Exploration
Caravel
Prince Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Amerigo Vespucci
Plantations
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Impact of Colonization on Natives
Hernando Cortes
Conquistadores
Montezuma
Aztecs
New Spain
Mestizos
Encomienda
Ponce de Leon / New Mexico
Pope’s Rebellion
John Smith / John Rolfe
Joint-Stock Companies
Roanoke
Jamestown
Powhatan
“Starving Time”
Indentured Servants
Bacon’s Rebellion
Governor Berkeley
Puritans
John Winthrop
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dissenters
Metacom
King Philip’s War
William Penn
New Netherlands
Middle Colonies
Quakers
UNIT 2 – ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
Mercantilism
Parliament
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Sir Edmund Andros
Salutary Neglect
Causes of Self-Government
Agricultural Southern colonies
Cash crops
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Stono Rebellion
Commercial Northern colonies
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Edwards
Great Awakening
French and Indian War
Last of the Mohicans
New France
George Washington
William Pitt
Pontiac
Proclamation of 1763
George Grenville
Sugar Act
Impact of war on England
Impact of war on colonies / Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Samuel Adams
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party
King George III
Intolerable Acts
Martial Law
Minutemen
Lexington and Concord
2nd Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Loyalists
Patriots
Valley Forge
George Washington
Battles of Saratoga, Trenton, Yorktown
Molly Pitcher
Friedrich von Steuben
Hessians
Marquis de Lafayette
General Cornwallis
Treaty of Paris
Egalitarianism
UNIT 3 – A YOUNG NATION EMERGES
Republic
Republicanism
Articles of Confederation
Debates over Representation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Weaknesses of the Articles
Shays’ Rebellion
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Constitutional Convention
Roger Sherman
Great Compromise
New Jersey Plan
Virginia Plan
Three-Fifths Compromise
Constitution
Federalism
Three Branches of Government
Checks and Balances
Electoral College
Ratification
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
Amendments
Veto
Comparison between Articles of Confederation and Constitution / Mount Vernon
Judiciary Act of 1789
Cabinet
Bank of the United States
District of Columbia
Federalists
Democrat-Republicans
Two-Party System
Excise Tax
Precedent
Whiskey Rebellion
Neutrality
Pinckney’s Treaty
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Jay’s Treaty
Sectionalism
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Nullification
Judiciary Act of 1801
Midnight Judges
Marbury v. Madison
Judicial Review
Louisiana Purchase
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Little Turtle
John Adams
Lewis and Clark
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
John Marshall
Sacajawea
UNIT 4 – EXPANSION & REFORM
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Mass Production
Industrial Revolution
Cotton Gin
Henry Clay
American System
Era of Good Feelings
National Road
Erie Canal
John Quincy Adams
Robert Fulton
Nationalism
Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Andrew Jackson
Democratic-Republicans
Spoils System
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Tariff of Abominations
Bank of the United States
Whig Party
Panic of 1837