AP Study guide

Bering Land Bridge

• Underwater tunnel between Europe and Africa
• Ancient road connecting South America and Antarctica
• Former bridge linking Australia and Antarctica
• Former land bridge connecting Asia and North America that hunters form Asia found

Atlantic Slave Trade

• Transportation of enslaved African people to the Americas and was a huge change in the US economy

• Exchange of goods between North and South America was a huge change in the European economy

• Migration of European settlers to Africa
• Trade of spices between Europe and Asia

Virginia's House of Burgesses

• First university in the American colonies and led to better collages

• First bank in the American colonies and led to safer trust

• First legislative assembly in the American colonies and led to a stronger government

• First hospital in the American colonies and led to a better health care

Navigation acts

• Fishing regulations in the Mediterranean
• Imposed restrictions on colonial trade

• Taxation policies in ancient Rome
• Agricultural subsidies in China

Triangular Trade

• Modern trade route between Asia, Australia, and Europe
• Ancient trade route between North America, South America, and Africa
• Futuristic trade route between Mars, Earth, and Jupiter
• Historical trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Albany Plan of Union

• Proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.

• Designed to protect the security and power of the small states by limiting each state to one vote in Congress

• John Adam's idea that created a nice foundation for the Articles of Confederation

• A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.

Ohio River Valley

• Authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.

• Served as the southern border of what would later be known as the Northwest Territory

• Mexican territory

• River that was dried out

Pontiac

• Car brand

• A leader that helped Native Americans realize that French losing is a loss for them which decayed the relations they had with Great Britain and it's North American colonies.

• A leader that helped Native Americans realize that Britain losing is a loss for them which decayed the relations they had with French and it's North American colonies.

• Country

Alien and Sedition Acts

• Treaty signed with France in 1803
• Declaration of Independence in 1776
• Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865
• Laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 and provided the government a more stronger protection.

How did the Hartford Convention affect US?

• New England threatened to secede which foreshows a future Civil War

• Peace talks between the United States and Great Britain
• Formation of the United Nations
• Treaty negotiations with Native American tribes