Midterm Review

Vocab

First hand sources such as diaries and newspapers

Primary sources

Helps find exact location

Latitude and longitude

Way of life of a people – traditions, holidays, dance,

music, ect….

culture

Study of artifacts

archaeology

Effects ways people make a living in society

geography

Reason colonists opposed the Tea Act

It gave the British East India Company a monopoly of tea

sales

Land surrounded by water on 3 sides

peninsula

First successful English colony (1607)

Jamestown colony

Reason French helped colonists in the American Revolutionary

War

Battle of Saratoga

Helped inspire learning in Europe that triggered age of

exploration

crusades

Rebirth of learning

renaissance

New York before colonized by the English in 1664

New Netherlands

Law making body including representatives from areas in a

land

Representative assemblies

First representative assembly in the 13 colonies

House of Burgesses

Economic policy where the colonies would send raw

materials to Britain and receive manufactured goods in return

mercantilism

Route of Africans on slaves ships to Americas across

Atlantic Ocean

Middle Passage

First act of democracy in Americas – Agreement of 41 men

on how to govern Plymouth Colony

Mayflower Compact

Established freedom of the press in the 13 colonies (New York)

John Peter Zenger

Established colony of Georgia as a haven for debtors

Ogelthorpe

First plan to unite 13 colonies that failed

Albany Plan of Union

War over the Ohio River Valley that lead Britain into debt

French and Indian War

Law requiring colonists to ONLY trade with England

Navigation Act

Listed all the complaints colonists had against Britain and why they should be independent

Power of government comes from the “consent” of the

governed

Declaration of Independence

Pamphlet that inspired colonists to fight the British

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Trade network of 3 continents including slaves, tobacco and guns and manufactured goods

Triangle trade network

Home of Quakers in 13 colonies

Pennsylvania – William Penn