Chapter 1: Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement, 1492-1700 Flashcards

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Which of the following most likely said this, "Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea some in sort to our whole nation?" 
A) John Winthrop
B) William Bradford
C) Captain John Smith
D) John Rolfe
A

B) William Bradford

-Of Plymouth Bay Colony (1620’s)

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Native Americans

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People native to North and South Americas. Of a more primitive civilization, who were nomadic and mostly lived in semipermanent settlements. They were the first Americans in which they divided into hundreds of tribes, spoke different languages, and practiced different cultures; migrated from Asia by crossing a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska.

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Land Bridge

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A frozen land bridge that connected Serbia to Alaska over the Bering Sea.

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Sioux & Pawnee

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Smaller Native American groups who lived on the Great Plains and followed the buffalo herds.

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List the roles of Native American men and women

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Women- Mostly grew crops such as corn, beans, and tobacco.

Men- Made tools and hunted for game

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Pueblo

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A Native American tribe that was quite large and lived in Southwest America in multistory buildings and made intricate systems for irrigation. They had a more complex culture than smaller groups.

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Adena

A

G

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Hopewell

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Z

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Missippian

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D

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Iroquios

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D

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Mayas

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B

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Incas

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H

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Aztecs

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H

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Renaissance

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J

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Technology

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I

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Compass

A

K

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Printing Press

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H

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Spain

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G

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Moors

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B

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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H

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Protestant Reformation

A

K

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Trade

A

G

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Portugal

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B

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Henry the Navigator

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G

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Nation-States

A

H

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Christopher Columbus

A

G

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New World

A

G

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Amerigo Vespucci

A

H

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Papal Line of Demarcation

A

V

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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

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Cf

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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G

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Ferdinand Magellan

A

V

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Hernan Cortés

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F

33
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Francisco Pizarro

A

G

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Conquistadores

A

F

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Encomienda System

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F

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Asiento System

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F

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John Cabot

A

G

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Giovanna de Verrazano

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G

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Jacques Cartier

A

G

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Samuel de Champlain

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R

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Father Jacques Marquette

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F

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Robert de la Salle

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F

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Henry Hudson

A

F

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Joint-Stock Company

A

F

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Father Junipero Serra

A

T

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Virginia Company

A

G

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Jamestown

A

T

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Captain John Smith

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F

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John Rolfe

A

Y

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Pocahontas

A

F

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Royal Colony

A

G

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Puritans

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Gh

53
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Plymouth Colony

A

G

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Separatists

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F

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Pilgrims

A

G

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Mayflower

A

G

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Mayflower Compact

A

G

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

A

G

59
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John Winthrop

A

G

60
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Great Migration

A

G

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Virginia House of Burgesses

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Y