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Chapter 2-Colonizing America Flashcards

1
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List four French explorers of America

A

Champlain
Cartier
Marquette
Joliet

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2
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New France included ____ and ___.

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Canada and Quebec

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3
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French explorers were attempting to find a _____ through the American Continent.

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Northwest Passage

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4
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What river was the center of most French settlement in North America?

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St. Lawrence River

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5
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What cased a lack of land in England in the 1600s?

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creation of large estates and the enclosure movment

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6
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_____ was an English explorer in the 1500s but did not create an English settlement.

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John Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

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What is a Privateer?

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A pirate with a licence from a monarch

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8
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What were Pirates looking for in the Caribbean?

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Spanish gold shipments

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Martin Luther’s revolution against the Roman Catholic Pope was called the ____.

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Reformation

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10
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Lutherans were called ____ by the Pope.

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Heretics

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The breaking of ties between the King and the church in Rome leads to an independent nation of _____.

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England

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12
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____ being arrested in the 1650s leads to a Civil War in England by the 1660s.

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Puritans

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13
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He led Parliament’s army during England’s Civil War.

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Oliver Cromwell

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He led the king’s army of Cavaliers during England’s Civil War.

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King Charles I

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After the death of Oliver Cromwell, English nobility ask for a Restoration of the monarchy under King ____.

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King Charles II

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16
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____ was the first attempt to have an English settlement on the coast of North America in the 1580s but it fails.

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Roanoke Island

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17
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This was the first permanent English colony in present day United States

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Jamestown, Va.

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18
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Native American Indian group in colonial Virginia

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Powhatan

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Indians, diseases, starvation, work policies, gentlemen settlers were all troubles at ___.

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Jamestown, Va.

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20
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Maryland established a ____ act allowing all types of Christian beliefs to settle in the colony.

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Toleration Act

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21
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Maryland encouraged this religious group to settle within its boundaries.

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Catholics

22
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In the 1670s, Charles Town became the primary settlement in this English colony.

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South Carolina

23
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This colony was considered the backwater country of Virginia with few direct sea harbors.

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North Carolina

24
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This colony was established by James Oglethorpe for debtors.

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Georgia

25
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List the five New England territories.

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Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Maine
26
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What company was established to found Jamestown in Virginia?

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London Company

27
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What company was established to found a colony in New England?

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Massachusetts Bay Company

28
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What Indian helped out the first settlers in Plymouth, Mass.

A

Squanto

29
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____ established a covenant community at Plymouth, Mass.

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Mayflower Compact

30
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Boston was the primary settlement for the ____ in Massachusetts.

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Puritans

31
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This war led to the ultimate annihilation of the Native American Indians in New England.

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King Phillip’s War

32
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Roger Williams establishes this colony for religious freedom from Puritan rules.

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Rhode Island and Providence Plantation

33
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Who established the Connecticut colony

A

Thomas Hooker at Hartford, Conn.

34
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____ becomes the first official written constitution of any English colony.

A

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

35
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List the four Middle Colonies.

A

New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware

36
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What European nation first settled in Manhattan?

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The Netherlands or Dutch

37
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Who was the first significant leader of Dutch New Netherlands?

A

Peter Stuyvesant

38
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By the 1660s, New Netherlands is captured by the English and renamed ____.

A

New York

39
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William Penn established a treaty with the ____ in order to start his colony of Pennsylvania.

A

Leeni Lenape

40
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William Penn encouraged ____ to move to his Pennsylvania colnoly

A

Quakers

41
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This city becomes the center of William Penn’s colony, the so called “City of Brotherly Love”

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Phladelphia

42
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The “Lower Counties of Pennsylvania” becomes known as the colony of ____.

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Delaware

43
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This was the first Spanish government in the Western Hemisphere.

A

Council of the Indies

44
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____ was the Spanish ruling classes in their colonies.

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Hildalgos

45
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____ were established in Spanish colonies to Christianize native American Indians.

A

Catholic missions

46
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The ____ was the center of most Spanish settlements and provided protection from invading or warring enemies.

A

Presideos

47
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This was the royal road that stretched up the Pacific Coast in the Spanish colonies like California

A

El Camino Real

48
Q

He was the Spanish Conquistador of the Inca in Peru

A

Francisco Pizzaro

49
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He was the conqueror of the Aztec in Mexico.

A

Heran Cortez

50
Q

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the ___ empire.

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Aztec Empire

51
Q

Weapons, strategy, tactics and ____ were all central to European domination over Native American Indian Empires.

A

diseases

52
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This is the title of Spanish commanders of the military expeditions to defeat Native American Indian Empires.

A

Conquistadors

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