Chapter 1-5 Bold Terms Flashcards
Canadian Shield
First part of North America to rise above sea level
Where did the Inca live
Peru
Where did the Aztecs live
Mexico
What is Cahokia
native settlement in Mississippi home to 25,000 people
What is three sister farming
In order, maize, beans and squash
Who were Muslim Middlemen
men along the silk road who charged who charged high tolls en route
Caravel
created in 1450, Portugal, allowed longer trade
Approximately what year did the Columbian exchange being?
1492
What and when was the Treaty Tordessilas
1494, issued by papacy, divided New World between Portugal and Spain
Encomienda
Allowed the government to give Natives to certain colonists as slaves, as long as they were baptized
What was the noche triste
1520, Spain sacks Tenochtitlan
What was the Battle of Acoma?
Spain attacks Pueblo people in New Mexico
What was Popes Rebellion
1680, Pueblo defeat Spain and reclaim Santa Fe area
What was primogeniture
land must be passed down to eldest son
what is a joint-stock company
allowed investors to pool capitol, and funded colonist’s journey to new world.
What did the Virginia Charter do?
Guaranteed the colonists equal english rights
What ended the first Anglo-Powahatan war?
Marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahantas
WHen was the Second Anglo-Powahatan War
1644
What was the House of Burgesses
An assmbly of settlers to solve problems
What was the Barbados Slave codes?
Makes slavery an inheritance
Who were squatters
Mostly middle colonists who raised crops without permission
Where was the Tuscarora war fought
North Carolina
Where was the Yamase Indian war fought?
South Carolina
What was Georgia’s initial purpose as a colony
to serve as a buffer
In Calvinism, what is conversion
A moment of insight as to whether you are going to heaven or hell
Why are the separatists important?
First colonists
What was the Mayflower compact
Forms crude government for colonists
During the Great Migration, approximately how many people left England, and where did most immigrate to?
189,000 Brits, most go to West Indies
What was antinomianism, and who created it?
Anne Hutchinson, attacks the belief of prede
Fundamental Orders
Connecticut drafts an early constitution.
Pequot War
Puritan’s war against the Pequots for land.
What did the Dominion of New England do
Established more control over the colonies under the guise of protection, 1686
What was “salutary neglect”
Monarchs relax control over navigation laws
What were patroonships
Large Dutch estates in New York
What were “blue laws”
Prevented any “ungodly” conduct in Pennsylvania
What were head right systems
Encourages indentured servants to immigrate to Virginia and Maryland by promising land
Bacon’s Rebellion
rebellion of indentured servants. Kills natives and government
Royal African Company
Crown loses monopoly on slave trade, private investors rush to get in on the business
Stono river
Blacks try to march to Spanish Florida
Congregational Church
Religious government in New England towns, democratic
Jeremiad
preachers before the Great Awakening who scolded parishinoners for waning piety, Jeremiah
Half-way convenant
allows “not fully committed” church goers to attend church
Original cause of Salem Witch Trials
Adolescents girls claim to be bewitched by older women
Leisler’s Rebellion
Rebellion between aristocrats and merchants in New York
Paxton Boys
armed march of men protesting Quakers policies of native in Philadelphia
Regulator Movement
inspired by Paxton boys
Molasses Act
Restricts molasses trade between America and the french west indies
Two main figures in Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield
Zenger Trial
Zenger is charges with libel, Hamilton defends him successfully. Would set precedent of freedom of the press
Who were the FFVs?
Top of Southern Social ladder
What colony was the most racially diverse
Pennsylvania
What Universities did the New Lights find?
Princeton, Brown, Rutgers and Dartmouth
Who were the Catawba?
Tribe that was formed because it’s elders died of disease
Who was John Rolfe
Refiner of tobacco and husband of Poccahantas
Who was James Oglethorpe
Helped organize early Georgia
Juan Ponce de Leon
Explorer of florida
How much did Spain’s consumer cost increase?
500%
