ch 1-6 Flashcards
treaty of tordesillas
Spanish secure its claim in new world by dividing it with Portugal
balboa
explorer that claimed all lands touched by Pacific Ocean for Spain
Magellan
Spanish explorer first to circumnavigate the globe (technically died in Philippines but some crew made it back)
potosí
city with mines rich in silver make Spain rich
encomienda
government gave Indians to colonists and the colonists promise to christianize them
Cortes
conquistador who conquered tenochtitlian
mestizos
people of mixed Indian and European descent
Popes rebellion
pueblo uprising - destroyed every church and killed lots of priests and Spanish settlers
bacons rebellion
Nathaniel bacon led revolt of poor people that killed Indians - this happen in virginia
James I
grew increasingly hostile towards Virginia LOOK UP WHAT ELSE HE DO
separatists
group that wanted to split from the Church of England
Lord Baltimore
founded Maryland
Iroquois confederation
unity of Indian nations
the Dutch
Dutch east India company - Henry Hudson - claim NY - New Netherlands and new Amsterdam
Salem witchcraft trails
accused came from the middle class market economy and accusers were farmers. in all about 20 women killed
fundamental orders
first modern constitution - Connecticut
slave society
grew greatly when the royal African company lost monopoly - large portion of population with slave codes governing
Calvinist conversion
believed in predestination but some started to question the Protestant work ethic. LOOK ZINTO MORE
Jamestown
first English settlement in America
second Anglo Powhatan war
Indians attack again despite peace treaty of Pocahontas marriage because they are still diseased an land is stolen - they lose, are banished from Chesapeake region and go extinct
roger Williams
extreme separatist who was banished from the bay colony and some people follow him and they invent Rhode Island
slave codes
outlined treatment of slaves and denied them fundamental human rights - most notorious and first being Barbados
William Penn
founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony
Wampanoags
Tribe befriended the Plymouth Piglrims
King Phillips war
Indian versus Puritan war in New England over settlers taking land
New England Confederation
Massachusetts bay colony, new haven, Plymouth, and Connecticut set up for defense against fremch, native Americans, Dutch
sir Edmond Andrea
sent to enforce navigation acts - restricted town meetings and colonial glorious rev left him powerless and he was found dressed as a lady and sent home
dominion of New England
set up by crown to replace the NE confederation, enforce navigation acts
Dutch new Netherlands
seized by emglish and becomes New York
Congregationalist church
self governing Puritan congregations
Chesapeake bay
very unhealthy - 1/2 didn’t live to 20, tobacco economy, mostly farming - very small professional class, mostly Anglican and Catholic
triangular trade
exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses between North American colonies, Africa, and West Indies
Anglican churc
Church of England - Virginia - those that didn’t split
B Franklin
doing some stuff with road systems cus they sucked - took 9 days to go from Boston to Philly
Gen Braddock
French and Indian war didn’t go so well early on under his leadership
William Pitt
change course of war by changing strategy: convince crown to focus on Canada and appoint young leaders
Battle of Quebec
victory of settlers: change course of war
fremch and Indian war
4th Anglo French war - this time started in the colonies - British win in end
Pontiac
since British won land, the Indians got worried and staged an uprising and laid siege to Detroit killing lots
Liberty of conscience
Quaker belief - offer more freedom of religion and thought in settlements
the first great awakening
religion had experienced a decline in fervor and it is now brought back with Jeremian sermons
Champlain
colonized Quebec for France
Peter zenger
put on trial for printing in his newspaper some,thing insulting the Royal governor. found not guilty cus it was true
George Grenville
prime minister who really didn’t like the colonies so he make sugar act, stamp act, quartering act, etc
three sister farming
early American cultures like Aztecs and incas - rotation of maize, beans, and squash to keep soil fertile
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism - denied Protestant work ethic - banished and killed by Indians