Mid-Term Exam Study Guide, Fall Semester 2015
Know the significance of the following terms, including the definition of each and its significance in the overall context of American history. Use your
chapter section review packets, returned tests, and book to study for this mid-term. You may use one 5x7 notecard, front and back, as a “cheat sheet” for
this mid-term. It must be hand-written and must be turned in after the mid-term.
Chapter 1
Archaeology
Bering Strait Land Bridge
Ice Age
Artifacts
Migration
Paleo-Indians
Hunter-Gatherers
Nomadic
Domestication
Agriculture
Civilization
Culture
Aztecs
Mayans
Incans
Roman Empire
Vikings
Longships
Lief Eriksson
Vinland
Middle Ages
Feudalism
Manors
Vassals
Nobility
Peasantry
The Catholic Church
The Pope
William of Normandy
King John
Magna Carta
Muhammad
Islam
Crusades
Chapter 2
Silk Road
Commercial Revolution
Capital
Black Death
The Renaissance
Astrolabe
Henry the Navigator
Caravel
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama
Cape of Good Hope
Christopher Columbus
King Ferdinand and Isabella
The Moors
Reconquista
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Columbus’ Four Voyages
Line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Circumnavigate
Columbian Exchange
Smallpox
Northwest Passage
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Chapter 3
Conquistadores
Hernan Cortez
Francisco Pizarro
Montezuma
Atahualpa
Council of the Indies
Viceroys
Pueblos
Missions
Presidios
Encomienda System
Bartolome de las Casas
Plantations
El Camino Real
Peninsulares
Mestizos
Criollos
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
Henry VIII
Philip II
Elizabeth I
Sea Dogs
Francis Drake
Spanish Armada
Inflation
Charter
Walter Raleigh
Chapter 4
Joint Stock Company
Jamestown
John Smith
John Rolfe
Headright system
Indentured Servants
Planters
Puritans
Sect
Separatists
Pilgrims
Massachusetts
William Bradford
The Mayflower
The Mayflower Compact
Dissenters
Great Migration
John Winthrop
Covenant
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Salem, Massachusetts
Quakers
William Penn
Proprietary colony
Maryland
Cecilius Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Toleration Act of 1649
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Chapter 5
Privy Council
Parliament
Bicameral legislature
Town Meetings
Virginia House of Burgesses
Dominion of New England
English Bill of Rights
Imports
Exports
Navigation Acts
Triangular trade
Middle Passage
Cash crop
Slave codes
Apprentices
Staple crop
Great Awakening
Revivals
Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Scientific Method
Enlightenment
John Locke
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Chapter 6
Militia
Albany Plan of Union
French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris
King George III
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
George Grenville
Samuel Adams
Committees of Correspondence
Taxation without Representation
Boycott
Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty
Patrick Henry
Repeal
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
John Adams
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Chapter 7
First Continental Congress
Minutemen
Lexington and Concord
“Shot heard ‘round the world”
Redcoats
Second Continental Congress
Continental Army
George Washington
Olive Branch Petition
Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Battle of Bunker Hill
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Unalienable rights
Patriots
Loyalists
Mercenaries
Hessians
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Saratoga
Marquis de Lafayette
Valley Forge
Friedrich von Steuben
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
John Paul Jones
Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis
Guerilla Warfare
Francis Marion
Charles Cornwallis
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Chapter 8
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism
Limited government
Suffrage
Ratification
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Northwest Territory
Interstate commerce
Inflation
Debtors
Creditors
Depression
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
James Madison
Virginia Plan
William Paterson
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Amendments