AP US History Unit 1 & 2 Terms Review
Extra Credit +4 points
1.
Promoter of Massachusetts Bay as a "holy city upon a hill"; was elected to the leadership of
the colony over thirty times:
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2.
Religious dissenter convicted of the heresy of antinomianism; exiled from Massachusetts
Bay colony; went to Rhode Island; eventually died along with all but one of her thirteen
children at the hands of Indians:
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3. Wampanoag Indian leader; tribal name was Metacomet; waged an unsuccessful war against
New Englanders:
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4.
Founder of the settlement of Providence; the colony eventually became Rhode Island; based
his philosophy on religious freedom and fairness to Indians; colony became the most tolerant
of the New England section:
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5.
A mass flight of Englishmen from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud and King Charles I:
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6.
The right to acquire a certain amount of land in America (usually Virginia) granted to the
person who financed the passage of a laborer; not to be confused with indentured servants:
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7.
A sermon or prophecy warning of doom and calling for repentance; begun in the colonies in
the 1600 to help keep the colonists from waning in their religious piety:
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8.
Helped erase the earlier Puritan distinction between the "elect" and the other members of
Puritan society; allowed people to join the Puritan Church without being fully committed:
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9.
Small revolt in New York (1689-91) that reflected the class antagonism between landlords
and merchants:
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10. An unwritten agreement made by the Pilgrims upon landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620; was
NOT a constitution or formal rule of government; merely an agreement commonly entered
in upon for the purpose of providing order in the new settlement:
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11. Itinerant English evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies in the
1740s:
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12. Great Awakening evangelist most famous for his 'hellfire and brimstone' sermon, "Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God":
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13. Scotch-Irish frontiersmen who protested against the colonial elites in Pennsylvania and
North Carolina. These two rebellions were typical of the rather rowdy and authority-hating
Scotch-Irish:
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14. Colonial printer; involved in a court decision in 1735 that helped set the precedent for the
first amendment protection guaranteeing freedom of press:
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15. Founded in 1643; first effort of the colonists to provide any sort of unification. Essentially
an exclusively Puritan club; Rhode Island not included:
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16. Drafted in 1639 in Hartford, Connecticutt; was in effect a constitution; essential features of
the document were borrowed to be included in the colonial charter of Connecticutt and later
for its state constitution:
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17. Created by royal authority in 1686; headed by Sir Edmund Andros; designed to promote the
administration of early Navigation Laws and to provide mutual defense in case of war with
the Indians:
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18. 1688; England; William and Mary deposed Catholic ruler of England (King James II) in a
bloodless coup; make Parliament supreme legislative body; ends the organization in the
colonies led by Sir Edmund Andros referred to in question #17:
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19. 1676; revolt in Virginia against Governor Berkeley; settlers from the outlaying areas not
happy with lack of representation in the House of Burgesses and lack of protection from
Indian raids:
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20. Policy of British non-enforcement of maritime Navigation Laws; policy was reversed after
the French and Indian War:
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21. 1754 plan of organization initiated by Benjamin Franklin in an effort to unify the colonies:
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22. Economic and political system in which one nation attempts to gain more power and wealth
than its rivals; must establish a favorable balance of trade:
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23. Document signed in 1713 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's
War); awarded Acadia (part of Canada) to England:
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24. Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War; splendid political speaker;
organized the winning strategy against the French in North America:
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25. Treaty that ended the French and Indian War in 1763; France kicked out of New World;
retains sugar islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe in Carribean; Spain gets New Orleans:
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26. Legislation introduced after the Seven Year's War by British in an effort to settle the Indian
problem by not allowing the colonists to cross the Appalachian Mountain; colonists see it as
a slap at their political freedoms:
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27. Site of the deaths of British General Wolfe and French General Montcalm; decisive battle of
the Seven Year's War:
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28. The political theory that a class of persons is represented in a lawmaking body without
actually having a direct vote; British maintain that the American claim of "no taxation
without representation" is unfounded because of this theory:
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29. Taxes placed by British in 1767 on items of everyday use; eventually repealed (except for a
duty on tea):
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30. Called 'Coercive' or 'Repressive' Acts by British; put into effect as a response to the 'tea
party' held in Boston in 1773:
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31. Organized by the Continental Congress with the purpose of boycotting all British goods:
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32. Passed in 1765; violently opposed by colonists; first real direct tax on the colonists; later
repealed; replaced by Declatory (Declaratory) Act of 1766:
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33. Petition sent by the First Continental Congress to King George III in a last ditch effort to
keep peace between England and the colonies; British ignore it:
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34. Thought by the colonists to be a fifth Coercive (Repressive) Act; passed by the British in
1774 in an effort to deal with the problems of keeping the French in Canada loyal to the
Crown; allowed French to maintain language, customs, religion; extended the southern
border of Canada:
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35. Leader of the Committee of Correspondence; extremely volatile and radical; turned the
confrontation in Boston between the colonists and British soldiers into the "Boston
Massacre":
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36. Captain of the American naval vessel, 'Bonhomme Richard'; most celebrated American
naval officer of the war; "I have not yet begun to fight!":
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37. Key battle in American Revolution; October 1777; results in French support for the colonies
in the Treaty of Alliance 1778; British attempted to crush the Americans using a three
pronged assault led by English officers Burgoyne, St. Leger, and Howe:
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38. Frontiersman who led his men to capture key British forts in the Northwest Territory (Forts
Kaskaskia, Vincennes, Cahokia); results in American control of the territory:
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39. One of the wealthiest colonists in pre-revolutionary America; president of the Continental
Congress; 'King of the Smugglers':
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40. Plan by anti-Washington plotters to overthrow George Washington as Commander in Chief
of the Continental Army:
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