US History: Unit 1 (Standards 1-5)

A community of people with a common background:

• Ethnic group

• Social Mobility

• Racial slur

• Mid-Atlantic settlers

The opportunity to rise through different social classes:

• Equal opportunity

• Affirmative action

• Social mobility

• Manifest Destiny

The blending of many different African cultures into one distinct culture in the American colonies:

• English-American Culture

• Irish-American Culture

• Native-American Culture

• African-American Culture

Britain choosing not to enforce laws on the colonists and allowing them to govern themselves:

• The Great Awakening

• The Stamp Act

• Salutary neglect

• The Salem Witch Trials

A religious movement in the colonies that led to more people going to new types of churches and having a personal relationship with God:

• The Salem Witch Trials

• The Great Awakening

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Manifest Destiny

Very DIVERSE and TOLERANT colonies:

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic or Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish territory

The Quaker leader who led the settlement of Pennsylvania:

• William Penn

• Joshua Rhodes

• Patrick Henry

• John Calvin

Religious group that settled Pennsylvania. They were very peaceful and tolerant:

• Puritans

• Quakers

• Anglicans

• Muslims

Originally settled by the Dutch as New Amsterdam & taken over by the English. Very important trade city:

• Quebec

• New Hampshire

• New York

• Maine

Religious group that fled England for religious reasons & settled Massachusetts. They were not tolerant of other religions:

• Quakers

• Catholics

• Baptists

• Puritans