Apush Unit 1 Key Terms

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PLYMOUTH COLONY

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The first English colonial adventure held from 1620-1692. It was found by a group of separatists who later became known as Pilgrims.

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MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

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The first governing document of Plymouth colony. It was an allegiance to the king. It was a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival.

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HEADRIGHT SYSTEM

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System that started to be used in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was a legal grant of land to settlers. It was a way to get people to go across the Atlantic Ocean and start colonizing on the lands of America.

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FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT 1639

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Adopted by the Connecticut Colony on January 14 1683. The Order gave men more voting rights and offered more men to be able to run for office positions.

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MERCANTILISM

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The economic theory that states that a nation is dependent on its supply of capital goods.

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TRIANGULAR TRADE

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Trade between the Americas/ Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Slaves were traded to grow cash crops which were the traded for European goods that were only acquired from Europe.

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THE GREAT AWAKENING

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1730’s, revival in Anglo-American religious history.

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IRON ACT 1750

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act seeking to restrict manufacturing activities in English colonies, particularly in the colonies in America. Certain things that included iron were put to an end.

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INDENTURED SERVANTS

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a debt bondage servant.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

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First president of the United States. He helped organize the original colonies and was leader of them. He helped win import wars.

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PROCLAMATION OF 1763

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It was issued by King George III. It was issued to organize Great Britain’s new American colonies with trade.

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SALUTARY NEGLECT

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British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of Parliamentary laws. Lasted from 1607-1696.

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STAMP ACT 1765

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It was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. The colonies tried resisting the stamp act.

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STAMP ACT CONGRESS

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A meeting in the building now known as Federal Hall. Delegates of the states discussed and acted upon the recently issued stamp act.

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SONS OF LIBERTY

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The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American patriots which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution.

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COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

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Bodies organized by the local governments of the original thirteen colonies for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.

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BOSTON MASSACRE

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Incident that led t the deaths of 5 colonies by the British. Beginning of the American Revolution.

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INTOLERABLE (COERCIVE) ACTS 1774

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Series of laws issued by the British to keep the colonies under control with taxing and other laws as well.

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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775

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The second Continental Congress, managed the colonial war, and moved slowly towards Independence. Adopted the United States Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776.

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NORTHWEST ORDINANCE

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An act of the Congress of Confederation, which helped write some of the most important documents for the United states of America.

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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Document created July 4th,1776 announcing that the original thirteen colonies were becoming independent from great Britain.

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COMMON SENSE

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Pamphlet written by an English man that became a success. It presented an argument for why the colonies should become independent of Britain.

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SHAYS REBELLION

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An armed uprising that lasted from 1786-1787. It started because people were becoming upset with the unfair taxes and they started to rebel against it.

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IMPLIED POWERS(ELASTIC CLAUSE)

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Anti-Federalists believed that the clause would grant the federal government limitless powers. Federals argued that it would only permit them to act accordingly.

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GREAT COMPROMISE

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The Great Compromise was between the smaller states and larger states during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that defined the legislative structure.

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Jamestown

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first known permanent English settlement in the United States

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John Smith

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he's known for his help[ with the establishment of the first permanent colony of Jamestown, Vigirnia.

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Bacon's Rebellion

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an uprising in 1676 in the Virgina colony. the first uprising that unhappy frontiersmen even took a part of

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Massachusetts Bay Company

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English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century

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Roger Williams

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English theologian, who received a charter for creating the colony of Rhode Island

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Anne Hutchinson

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pioneer who held Bible meetings for women and men became interested in it too. she started having her own interpretations of some things from the Bible so she was banished from her colony.

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Pequot War

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1634-1638 between massachusetts bay colony and the native americans in the area

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Declaratory Act

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Act of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1766, in an attempt to control the colonies behavior. It stated that Parliament had the right to make laws in all matters.

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Quartering Act

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Acts used by British forces in the American colonies to ensure that their troops had adequate households and provisions.

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Townsend Act

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A series of acts beginning in 1761 by the Parliament of Great Britain. These Acts were passed to raise money for judges and governors. The acts were: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.

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Tea Act

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An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the East India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licenses to the East India Company to export tea duty-free.

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Boston Tea Party

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A group of colonists dressed as Native Americans went on the British ships and destroyed all of the tea by emptying into the Boston Harbor.

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Mutiny Act

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An act that was passed yearly. It was started in 1689 in response to a mutiny of a large portion of the army who stayed loyal to the Stuarts.

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Samuel Adams

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One of the Founding Father's of the United States. He was an important leader in the American Revolution.

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King William's War

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The first of the French and Indian Wars. (1689-1697) It was caused by tensions between the French and New England.

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Queen Anne's War

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The second war in the French and Indian Wars. (1702-1713) It was fought between the French and Indians for control of the continent.

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Peace of Utrecht

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Series of peace treaty documents that were signed in the city of Utrecht, March and April of 1713.

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War of Jenkins Ear

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Conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739-1748.

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Paxton Boys

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Group of boys who murdered 20 Native Americans in what is sometimes known as Conestoga Massacre.

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Greenville's Program

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Groups of men who would gather together to try to go against the British

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Patrick Henry

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Known for "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and for being one of the Founding Father's of the original thirteen colonies.

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Sons of Liberty

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Groups of men who would gather together to try to go against the British.

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Daughter's of Liberty

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The Daughters of liberty was a successful Colonial American group that consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.

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Crispus Attucks

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Remembered for being one of the five who were killed in the Boston Massacre.

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John Adams

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Helped with the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776. He was second president.

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Carolina Regulators

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The primary aim of the Regulators was to form an honest government and reduce taxation.

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Battle of Alamance

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The Battle of Alamance ended the so-called War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control

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First Continental Congress, 1774

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First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In response to the Coercive Acts

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Suffolk Resolves

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The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774.

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Galloway Plan

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Joseph Galloway was a Pennsylvania delegate who wanted to keep the colonies in the British Empire. He suggested the creation of an American Colonial Parliament to act together with the Parliament of Great Britain.

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Lexington and Concord, April 19th, 1775

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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

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Paul Revere, William Dawes

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On April 18, the evening Paul Revere and William Dawes were dispatched by Joseph Warren to warn the countryside that the British were coming.

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Second Continental Congress

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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after shooting in the American Revolutionary War had begun. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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Slavery Clause in the Declaration of Independence

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was removed from the final copy of the Declaration of Independence

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Somerset Case (in Great Britain)

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a famous judgement of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772 which held that slavery was unlawful in England

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quock walker case- mass

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Quock Walker was an American slave who sued for and won his freedom in 1780 by using language in the Massachusetts Constitution that declared all men to be born free and equal.

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benedict arnold

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General during the Revolutionary war, who was supposedly on the american side but played both ways

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continental army

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army formed after the outbreak of the revolutionary war

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native americans in revolutionary war

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aided the patriots

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black americans in revolutionary war

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took advantage of the war and tried to escape