USI Midterm Study Guide
Miller
Chapter 1Migration theories: Coastal route theory and Land bridge theory
Ice Age
Paleo-Indians
Cahokia
Explain reasons for migration
Mayas
Aztecs
Adobe
Similarities and Differences between Native American cultures
Iroquois League
Middle Ages
Effects of the Black Plague
Impact of the Crusades
Renaissance
Gutenberg movable printing press
Prince Henry the Navigator
Technological innovations such as the caravel and astrolabe
African kingdoms
African slave trade
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernán Cortes and the conquistadors
Columbian Exchange
Chapter 2Mission
Missionary
Casta system
Popé and the Pueblo revolt
Northwest Passage
Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
Metis
Jamestown
Charter
Joint-stock company
Powhatan
John Smith
John Rolfe
House of Burgesses
Royal colony
Proprietary colony
Bacon’s Rebellion
Lord Baltimore
James Oglethorpe
Importance of tobacco
John Calvin and predestination
Puritans vs. Pilgrims
Separatists
Anglican Church
Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop and the “city upon a hill”
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Salem Witch Trials
Pequot War
King Philip’s War
Push Factors
Pull Factors
William Penn
Quakers
Compare and contrast Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies
Locations of English, French, and Spanish colonies.
Major economic activities in Spanish colonies? In French? In English?
Government in Spanish colonies? In French? In English?
Chapter 3Indentured servants
Why did the supply of indentured servants from England decline after 1660?
Scotch-Irish
Germans
Slavery- How and why does it begin? How does it evolve into a system of racial slavery?
Triangular trade
Middle Passage
African American culture
Slave resistance
Magna Carta
Parliament
Bicameral
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Habeas Corpus
Salutary neglect
John Peter Zenger
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
The Consumer Revolution
Enlightenment
John Locke
Benjamin Franklin
Albany Plan of Union
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Cash crops
Geographic and economic differences between the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
Education in the colonies
Government in the colonies
The French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Chapter 4In what ways did the system of English government influence the colonists? (Describe the English
government and think of the rights/freedoms that the colonists inherited from England)
How did England and the colonies compare/contrast in terms of democratic participation (voting, etc.)?
Parliament
Bicameral legislature
Virtual representation
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
In what ways did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?
Taxation Without Representation
John Adams
Influence of the Enlightenment
Patrick Henry
Sons of Liberty
Nonimportation agreements
Role of women in colonial protests
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
First and Second Continental Congress
Militia
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Loyalists
Patriots
George Washington
“Olive Branch Petition”
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Natural Rights
Unalienable Rights
The American Crisis
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Princeton
When and why does France enter the war?
Benjamin Franklin
Valley Forge
The Frontier war
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Impact of the Revolution on Women
Impact of the Revolution on African Americans
Manumission
Influence of Revolutionary ideas
Chapter 5Characteristics of early state governments
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays’ Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Three-fifths Compromise
Slave trade Compromise
Electoral College
Federalism
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
Federalist Papers