APUSH Midterm

Aztec Location

Mayan Location

Incan Location

Aztec Coloniser

Mayan Coloniser

Inca Coloniser

Maya/Incan/Aztec Religion

MX Flag, ball game, some musical instruments

calender; concept of zero; astronomy; hieroglyphics

‘knot’ language; architecture; largest + best road system

priests were doctors, teachers, and ran ceremonies

kings-nobles-priests- lower class

kings-nobles-priests-farmers

chili pepper fire, slavery, killed

human sacrifice for entertainment; cut out heart

cut off limbs; thrown off cliff

1st Europeans in America

Portugal, Denmark, Spain, England, France, the Netherlands

europe - africa (guns + manufactured goods)

africa - americas (enslaved africans)

americas - europe (raw materials)

Portugal (were the first to start)

new world - old world (corn, tobacco, rice, syphillis)

old world - new world (cows, horses, sugar cane, KY bluegrass; smallpox)

portugal got brazil and land under africa; spain got everything west of the line ----- line drawn by pope

started by slave trade

sailed Pacific Ocean

searched for Golden cities; found Grand Canyon + bison

found Mississippi river; buried in it

fountain of youth; found florida

Englishman; found North American coast

Englishman; settlement NY

established French settlements in TX and LA

“Lost Colony'“; Sir walter Raleigh sailed there and back

sighted bahamas

Jamestown

1607

Jamestown

Jamestown

Jamestown

John Smith

Jamestown

period after John Smith returned to England and colony starved

saved Jamestown with tobacco

1st cash crop; required white indentured servants originally to grow

VA

1st colonial legislature; VA

in VA; indentured servants rebellion; start of ONLY slavery in america

1st colony; by virginia company

puritans wanted to stay with church of england; separatists wanted to leave

2nd permanent english settlement; by separatists

by Puritans; governed by John Winthrop (city on a hill)

democratic town meetings

shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, lumbering and iron making.

Roger Williams + Anne Hutchinson(banned from bay colony because of religion)

1st constitution

universities; christian classes; more educated

more than south; less than north; read + wrote bible

New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachussetts

did not value education; sent to england to study

diseases, war, economy, culture, encomienda, animals, plant, slave trade

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

good farmland and produced grains for bread, ships, lumber and furs; diverse population

Dutch (taken by england eventually)

William Penn & Quakers; very peaceful and liberal

VA, NC, SC, GA

Lord Baltimore; haven for persecuted catholics in england

caused by Tensions between Catholics and Protestants; only tolerated christianity

rice

south; wealthy, rice

north; rugged indivualists, tobacco

Oglethorpe founded as a debtors prison

virginia

virginia

• signed declaration of independence, leader of sons of liberty, cousin of John Adams(complete opposites), ‘instigator’ -

• 2nd president, edited the Declaration of Independence signed and

• negotiated Treaty of Paris (ended the war),

• 1st Vice President,

• Midnight judges - federalist judges before jefferson became president

• lame duck act

• jefferson could not place any anti-federalist judges

• Hamilton Federalists supported a strong central government; they believed that the government should support private enterprise, not interfere with it; and they supported the British.

• Jeffersonian anti-Federalists demanded a weak central government and supported states' rights.

  • government FOR all people but not BY all people

  • wanted slavery ensure that farmers could remain land owners

• Federalist Congress passed a series of oppressive laws aimed at "aliens", or foreigners who came to America and supported Jefferson.

• stated that anyone who impeded the policies of the government or falsely defamed its officials would be liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment.

most famous traitor, didnt’ get promotion in American army, went to British army, flees to Britain after war

lighting rod, flew a kite, bifocals, started volunteer firefight, designed first political cartoon (Join or Die), Poor Richards Almanac, Pennsylvania Gazette, helped with Declaration of Indepedence, pivotal with getting France to help America,

1st president, general of continental army

saved Valley Forge

1st to use Guerilla warfare against British

rich smuggler in Massachusetts,; largest signature on Declaration of Independence, the reason why George Washington was selected to be general

• famous spy for George Washington (wrote in invisible ink), captured by British and hung by british, ‘my one regret is that I have but one life to give to my country’,

1st secretary of treasury (economic system due to him tdy), 1st banking and financial system, federalist papers, fought w/ washington (yorktown which was a win), swing vote for jefferson, lost duel with aaron burr + died

‘give me liberty or give me death’, 1st governor of VA,; pro-bill of rights

• 1st supreme court justice, part of 1st and second continetnal congress, also author of Federalist papers, will have treaty named after him (jay’s treaty - HUGE FAILURE)

• main author of declaration of Independence,

• manufacturing over agriculture

• in HOrep, at 2nd continental congress

• , governor of VA, wrote statue of religious freeodm, minsiter of france, VP of JOhn adams,

• President during LA purhcase,

• barbary pirates

• war of 1812

• last author of federalist papers, nicknamed ‘father of constitution’, jefferson’s secretary of state, 4th president

• at Boston tea party, wrote VA declaration of rights (basis for bill of rights)

• wrote ‘common sense’ - pro -independence

‘allegedly’ sewed the flag, grandson started rumor

cause; “taxation w/out representation” - britian overtaxed due to loss of french vs indian war and colonists were not rep. in congress

effect; intolerable acts

shot heard round the world (1st shot of revolution - NO ONE KNOWS WHO SHOT)

• paul revere + warned people -

• General gage; goal was to arrest rebel leaders (eg)sam adams, john hancock, john adams) + cause revolution to crumble; wanted to reassert royal authority

• founding fathers had already fled + many went into hiding

• also breeds hill

• general gage (british) vs general prescott (americans)

• low on ammunition; ‘dont fire untill see the whites of their eyes’; so they don’t miss (muskets were not accurate)

• americans lost; but british lost half of men

• after, George washington was picked to be commander due to hancock’s suggestion

• in pennsylvania

• bad winter, lack of food + supplies, frostbite - army starts deserting

• baron von steuben + lafayette bring supplies

• baron von stueben - drills men and raises morale

• turning point of american revolution

• in NY,

• when america wins, france and spain helps  (spain didnt like due to defeat of spanish armada; french + indian war)

• Washington crossing the delaware

• surprised hessians

• germans had christmas parties and drunk; americans suprised and took captive

• hessians were headed to yorktown - took away british reinforcements that could have turned tide of yorktown

• washington comes in land, french by water + surround british

• cornwallis surrenders; AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Congress adopts the

• Bill of Rights in 1789 and establishes an army. The Bill of Rights is ratified 1791. Congress passes the 11th Amendment,

• Whiskey Rebellion

(1789-1793) and (1793-1797)

• The 11th Amendment is added to the Constitution in 1798.

• Washington D.C. becomes America's official capitol in 1800.,

• He was the second president of the United States and a Federalist.

• He was responsible for passing the Alien and Sedition Acts.

• Prevented all out war with France after the XYZ Affair.

• His passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts severely hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself

(1797-1801)

(1801-1805) and (1805-1809)

• Louisianna Purchase in 1803.

• In 1803 the 12th Amendment is approved by Congress and added to the Constitution in 1804.

• Lewis and Clark begin exploring the Lousianna Territory in 1804, returning in 1809.

• First secretary of state.

• Took up the cause of strict constructionists and the Republican Party, advocating limited federal government.

• Organized the national government by Republican ideals, doubled the size of the nation, and struggled to maintain American neutrality.

• (1809-1813) and (1813-1817)

• The War of 1812, the US declares war on Great Britain.

• In 1814, the British (technically the Canadians) set fire to the Capitol.

• The Treaty of Ghent ends the war in 1814.,

• The fourth President of the United States (1809-1817).

• A member of the Continental Congress (1780-1783) and the Constitutional Convention (1787),

• he strongly supported ratification of the Constitution and was a contributor to The Federalist Papers (1787-1788), which argued the effectiveness of the proposed constitution.

• Favored strict interpretation of the Constitution.