Chapter 2 - The Invasion Of The New World Flashcards
Pope’s Rebellion
An uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers; 400 Spanish died and the remaining 2,000 settlers were driven out.
The Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries
Issued in 1573, it placed the pacification of new lands primarily in the hands of missionaries, not conquistadors.
New France
The area colonized by France in North America
Iroquois
A confederacy of Indian peoples originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca, people’s.
Jesuits
Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests zealous in opposing the Reformation.
New Netherland
Territory that was colonized by the Netherlands.
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
The House of Burgesses
The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.
Lord Baltimore
An English peer who was the Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. Felt that Protestants and Catholics should live in peace.
Tobacco
A cash crop that helped the Chesapeake region boom.
Indentured Servant
A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country.
Chattel Slavery
An enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children’s children are enslaved; super brutal.
Bacon’s Rebellion
An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Berkeley, who was super corrupt.
Plymouth
An English colonial venture in North America surveyed and named by captain and named Captain John Smith.
Massachusetts Bay
An English settlement on the east coast in the areas of Boston and Salem.
Puritans
A group of English Protestants of late 16 and 17th century who regarded the Reformation under Elizabeth as incomplete.
Roger Williams
An English Protestant who was banned from Massachusetts for his radical beliefs and founded the tolerant Rhode Island.
Anne Hutchinson
Banished from Massachusetts for her radical teachings, joined Williams in Rhode Island.
Salem Witch Trails
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts from 1692-3
Metacom’s War (King Philips War)
Marked the last major effort by the Indian of southern New England to drive out the English settlers.
Fur Trade
French were heavily involved in the fur trade (mostly beaver) for the export back to Europe. Traded metal items with Indian trappers for beaver pelts.
Headright System
A system of obtaining land in colonial times in which one received fifty acres of land for every emigrant to America one sponsored.
