American yawp test - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Battle of Lexington and Concord - British regiments set out to take away the local militias' arms and powder stores in Lexington and Concord. The town militia met them at the Lexington Green, and Britain told them to disperse. Someone fired, and this battle went all the way to Concord. The British were trapped. "Shot heard 'round the world'" - "Shot heard 'round the world.'" Thomas Jefferson - A delegate of the Continental Congress from Virginia, considered a radical.

Columbian Exchange the global exhange of goods ideas and diseases resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and the Western hemispheres Pequot War (1636-1637) Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in eastern Connecticut an armed contingent of English Puritans from Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut colonies trekked into Indian country in territory claimed by New England. Referring to themselves as the "Sword ...

The journal of christopher columbus columbus immediately saw natives as economic interests and wanted to convert them to christianity Bartolomé de Las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Wrote to the King of Spain persuading him to create new laws to prevent the exploitation of Native Americans 00:02 01:23 Thomas Morton, The New English Canaan used his descriptions of natives as means of criticizing english culture because they were much happier, a...