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Chapter 1-2 Flashcards

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Policy by Spanish government to give Indian slaves to colonists who promised to christianize them

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Encomienda

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The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old world societies after 1492, initiated by Columbus

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Colombian Exchange

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People of Mixed Indians and European heritage, notably in Mexico

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Mestizo

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A social structure in which classes are determined by heredity, usually rigid

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Caste System

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A system of forced labor where laborers agreed to work without pay in exchange for passage to America

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Indenture

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A British custom where the firstborn inherits the family’s entire estate

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Primogeniture

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The act of bringing into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc. of a group/nation

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Assimilation

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A policy put into place in 1573 by Spanish leaders that used missionaries and missions to convert and control the New World instead of using violence

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Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries

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An Indian uprising that occurred in 1680, Pueblos against Spanish

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Pope’s Rebellion

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Groups of French Protestants (1560-1629)

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Huguenots

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Led a small Dutch military expedition in 1655 to fight Swedish intrusion in Delaware; directors-general

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Head of the Dominion of New England in 1686

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Edmund Andros

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Joint-stock company which formed Virginia as a profit-earning venture

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Virginia Company

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Colony founded in 1607 by Virginia Company

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Jamestown

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Indians near Jamestown

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Powhatan

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One of the early settlers at Jamestown who introduced tobacco and married Pocahontas

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John Rolfe

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A charter of liberties also known as the Magna Carta

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“Greate Charter”

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The first legislative body in the American colonies

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House of Burgesses

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Established Maryland (between the Potomac river and Chesapeake Bay) to give Catholics a place to practice their religion freely

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Lord Baltimore

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Granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland; represented part of the colonial legacy left in the first amendment

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Maryland Act of Toleration

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