Ultimate APUSH Study Guide Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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Jamestown 1607
First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia
Company.
Captain John Smith
Saved Jamestown 1610. Brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas.
First Africans
brought to Virginia as slaves, 1619.
Virginia House of Burgesse...
Ultimate APUSH Study Guide Questions
and Answers 2024/2025
Jamestown 1607
First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia
Company.
Captain John Smith
Saved Jamestown 1610. Brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas.
First Africans
brought to Virginia as slaves, 1619.
Virginia House of Burgesses
1619. First elected legilative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of
Virginia. Served as an early model of elected government in the New World.
Mayflower Compact
1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41
men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
Great Migration
Puritans go to Massachusetts, 1630s-40s; due to belief that the Church of England
was beyond reform. 15,000 Puritans escape religious persecution and economic hard
times.
established Rhode Island, 1636; Believed in separation of Church and State. He
believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Anne Hutchinson's
banishment in 1637. religious dissenter---heritic--- who challenged the principles of
Massachusetts's religious and political system. Her ideas became known as the heresy
of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law. She was latter
expelled, with her family and followers, and settled at Pocasset ( now Portsmouth, R.I.)
Pequot War
English won at Mystic Massachusetts, 1637, The Bay colonists wanted to claim
Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down
their village and 400 were killed.
King Philips War, 1676
Puritan war against the Wampanoag and Metacom (ie. King Philip) over land.
William Penn
Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter
from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment"
based on religious tolerance.
Salem Witch Trials, 1692
Wave of hysteria swept through Massachusetts regarding outrageous religious
convictions and proposed witchcraft. 150 people arrested, 26 convicted. this changed
the dynamics of wealth because the wealthy were accused of witchcraft more often
than the poor.
established Georgia, 1732. Buffer against Spanish Florida. Recruited debtors.
Unsuccessful for awhile b/c he was strict, place for honest debtors (the poor who were
in debtor's prison).
Jonathan Edwards
sparked the 1st Great Awakening, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", He
preached anew the traditional ideas of Puritanism related to sovereignty of God,
predestination, and salvation by God's grace alone. He had vivid descriptions of Hell
that terrified listeners.
Stono Rebellion
1739 , The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period in South Carolina.
100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites then tried to
escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants executed. The main
form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go.
Bacon's rebellion
Jamestown, 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American
colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland
occurred later that year.
French and Indian War
Was a war fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio
River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763. STARTED TAXATION, and BRITISH
OCCUPATION.
Proclamation of 1763
A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from
settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already
living west of the mountains to move back east.
Parliament's first direct tax on the Colonies; taxed newspapers, pamphlets, legal
documents, dice and playing cards.
Declaratory Act 1766
the response after repealing the stamp act it stated that parliament has right to make
laws without colonial consent
Townshend Acts 1767
levied taxes on imported items such as paper, glass, and TEA; not "internal taxation"
like the Stamp Act, however, the colonists viewed these as taxes and refused to pay
them as well. Also created the writs of assistance to help people search homes for
smuggled items.
Boston Massacre 1770
Colonists started throwing rocks and snowballs at some British soldiers; the soldiers
panicked and fired their muskets, killing a few colonials. This outraged the colonies and
increased anti-British sentiment. led to formation of Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party 1773
Sons of Liberty protested against Tea Act; poured tea into the Boston Harbor; result:
Intolerable Acts (incl. Boston Port Act)
First Continental Congress 1774
All colonies but Georgia went to this Congress in Philadelphia to determine how the
colonies should react to the threat to their rights and liberties; no talk of secession from
England, craft a response to the Intolerable Acts. Delegates established Association,
which called for a complete boycott of British goods.
Lexington and Concord 1775
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