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