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Chapter 1 & 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Cahokia

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One of the largest urban areas created by the Mississippian people, containing 30,000 citizens by 1250

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Beringia

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A subcontinent bridge between North America and Asia

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Treaty of tordesillas

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Negotiation in 1494 to resolve territorial disputes between Spain and Portugal

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Protestant reformation

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Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic Church to return to their previous and more pure beliefs (1517)

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Predestination

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The belief the God determined at the creation which humans should be saved

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The ecomendia system

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Spanish system of labor, forcing Native Americans to become their slaves

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Asiento system

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System of the triangular trade system, where slaves were brought into the new world

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Bartolome De Las Casas

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Spanish priest who argued that natives were a docile race and were treated unjustly

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Juan De Sepulveda

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Spanish explorer who was commissioned to argue that natives were subhuman

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Vallaolid debate

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(1550–1551) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of a colonized people by colonizers.

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Colombian exchange

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s the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries

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Pueblo

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an American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.

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Sioux

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a member of a North American Indian people of the upper Mississippi valley and the surrounding plains.

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Iroquois

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a member of a former confederacy of North American Indian peoples originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples

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Algonquin

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a member of a North American Indian people living in Canada along the Ottawa River and its tributaries and westward to the north of Lake Superior.

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Mestizo

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offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian

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Zambo

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Offspring of an American native and an African American

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Sextant

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A navigational instrument that measures the distance between objects

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Joint stock company

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a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders

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Virginia company

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Two joint stock companies joined by James 1 to explore the americas

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House of burgesses

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the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.

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Indentured servants

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men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter

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Puritans

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a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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Pilgrims

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a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

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Separatists

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English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wished to separate from the perceived corruption of the Church of England and form independent local churches.

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Mayflower compact

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An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, it bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws

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Massachusetts bay company

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a joint stock trading company chartered by the English crown in 1629 to colonize a vast area in New England

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Great migration

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movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West (second pilgrimage??)

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Proprietary colony

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A colony, while still under royal rule, that is governed by a Governor General who lives in the colony

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Royal colony

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A colony that is ruled exclusively by a king of the old world (sometimes form assembly)

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Quaker

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Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles, doctrine of the “Inner Light,” or sense of Christ’s direct working in the soul

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Pequot war

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armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists

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King Phillips war

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an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675–78

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Bacons rebellion

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an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley (tyrannical)

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Seven years war

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A war fought in the middle of the eighteenth century between the German kingdom of Prussia, supported by Britain, against an alliance that included Austria, France, and Russia. Prussia and Britain won and increased power (colonial exploration)

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Middle passage

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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Slave codes

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State laws that placed harsh restrictions on slaves’ already limited freedoms, often in order to preempt rebellion or escape, and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.

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Great awakening

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religious revivals in the British colonies during the 17th and 18th Centuries. colonists found new meaning (and new comfort) in the religions of the day

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Mercantilism

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the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances,

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Navigation acts

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several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies

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Toleration act

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An act of 1689 granting freedom of worship to dissenters (excluding Roman Catholics and Unitarians) on certain conditions.

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Enlightenment

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European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

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Half-way covenant

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(1657-1662) allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members

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New lights/old lights

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used in Protestant Christian circles to distinguish between two groups who were initially the same

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John peter zenger case

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libel trial and eventual acquittal (1735) set a precedent for establishing freedom of the press in America.

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Dominion of New England

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(1686–89) was an administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies

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John Winthrop

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English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Anne Hutchinson

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a Puritan spiritual adviser, an important participant in the Antinomian Controvers (almost overthrew the puritans and was banished)

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Roger Williams

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Expelled from Massachusetts, settled Rhode Island (providence)

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William Penn

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entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania,

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