American History I: Unit 1 Study Guide (14 sets of notes from "European Exploration" - "A New America")
European Exploration
1. Reasons for Exploration (New trade route to Asia, the 3 "G"s - God, gold, glory)
Chesapeake Colonies
2. Joint Stock Companies:
3. Jamestown (where was it, why was it significant, why was it settled?):
4. John Smith & Pocahontas:
5. Tobacco:
6. Indentured Servitude:
7. Virginia House of Burgesses:
8. The Middle Passage:
9. Maryland (who settled it and why?):
Colonization of New England
10. Puritans/Pilgrims:
11. Mayflower Compact:
12. Plymouth (where was it, why was it significant, why was it settled?)
13. John Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill" sermon
14. Roger Williams / Anne Hutchinson / Rhode Island
15. Thomas Hooker / Connecticut
16. The Pequot War / King Philip's War
Settlement of the Middle & Southern Colonies
17. Maryland Toleration Act
18. New Amsterdam
19. William Penn / Quakers / Pennsylvania
20. James Oglethorpe / Georgia
Class Conflict in the Southern Colonies
21. Cash crops / Plantation System
22. Headright System
23. Tidewater Planters vs. Yeoman Farmers
24. Bacon's Rebellion
Life in the New England & Middle Colonies
25. Farming conditions in New England vs. in the Middle Colonies vs. Southern Colonies
26. Salem Witch Trials
First Conflicts
27. Mercantilism
28. Navigation & Trade Acts
29. Smuggling
30. The Dominion of New England
31. The English Bill of Rights
Growing Diversity & Independence
32. Where did immigrants come from?
33. Stono Rebellion
34. John Locke
35. Montesquieu
36. The Great Awakening / George Whitefield
The French & Indian War
37. Albany Plan of Union
38. French & Indian War / Seven Years' War
39. Consequences of the War
The Colonists Become Defiant
40. Proclamation Act of 1763
41. Salutary Neglect
42. Sugar Act
43. "No Taxation Without Representation"
44. Stamp Act
45. Sons of Liberty
46. Stamp Act Congress
47. Boycotts
48. Townshend Acts / Writs of Assistance
49. Daughters of Liberty
50. Boston Massacre
A Revolution Begins
51. Committees of Correspondence
52. Boston Tea Party
53. Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
54. First Continental Congress
55. Minutemen
56. Loyalists (Tories) vs. Patriots
57. Battles of Lexington & Concord
58. Second Continental Congress
The Early Days of the Revolution
59. Battle of Bunker Hill
60. Olive Branch Petition
61. Hessians
62. Thomas Paine's Common Sense
63. The Declaration of Independence
64. American Problems vs. British Problems
The Revolutionary War
65. George Washington
66. Nathan Hale
67. Battle of Saratoga
68. Valley Forge
69. Marquis de Lafayette
70. France's role in the War
71. John Paul Jones
72. Benedict Arnold
73. Hit and Run Raids
74. Lord Cornwallis
75. Battle of Yorktown
76. Treaty of Paris (1783)
A New America
77. What is a republic?
78. "Tyranny of the Majority"
79. Who could vote?
80. Virginia's Declaration of Rights
81. Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
82. Judith Sargent Murray