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.
