Chap 1-3 Flashcards
Cahokia
City that was the center of a large pre-Columbian Mississippian civilization.
Sistema de Castas
Defined people in Spanish colonies on the basis of ”Purity of blood” which defined as distance of relation to Spanish ancestors
Encomienda “Land Grant”
Term used for system of land grants and collective slavery in the early Spanish colonies
Chaco Canyon
- Puebloan culture centered here
- Collapsed by the 13th century via overirrigation, deforestation, and drought
- Domesticated turkeys, extensive trading networks
Metis/”Sage”
Offspring of Native American women and French men
Patroon
Importing Labor
- encouraged colonization
- granted large estates to wealthy landowners who paid tenants to work their land
Was not sucessful in the Netherlands leading the importation of African slaves to Dutch colonized areas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty struck by the Pope that divided the New World between Portugal and Spain
Enclosure
The act of removing agricultural land from common access and making it private property in the English countryside.
Chattel Slavery
The idea that individual enslaved people are the personal property of an owner.
English Civil War
Religious conflict in England and battles over raising revenue led to war in 1642 between King Charles 1 and Parliament
Parliament victorious, king executed, and England made a republic
Lords of Trade and Plantations
An executive council created to oversee commerce in the colonies
King Phillip’s War
Indigenous groups that came victorious in the Pequot War conflicts with the settlers, drawing nearly all Native groups in New England
Native resistance ending in New England near Boston due to colonists enlisting help of remaining Pequot allies
Bacon’s Rebellion
The passage of new colonial laws which enforced much stronger separation between indentured servants and African people in slavery.
