Chapters 1-2 (don't use) Flashcards
the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. In Central America at about 8,000 b.c.e. aided by the development of cron
Neolithic revolution
small bands of people living in isolation
North American societies before outside contact
acute population pressure, constant warfare, new ideas (aided by the printing press), Protestant Reformation and large nation-states were prevelant
European societies before outside contact
African societies before outside contact
villages and big cities along trade routes along with herding peoples in the Sahara
the treaty, brokered by the pope, confirmed Portugal’s right to control the route around Africa to India, and Spain’s claim to most of the newly discovered lands of America.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Spanish ‘conqueror’ or soldier in the New World. They were searching for the 3-G’s: gold, God, and glory.
conquistadores
a kind of feudalism granting Spanish colonists control of conquered lands and obliging the Indians to provide forced labor and a fixed portion of their harvests
ecomienda system
Italian explorer who led the English expedition (giving England claim to the land) in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
John Cabot
Italian explorer of the Atlantic coast of North America
Giovanni de Verrazano
French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
Jacques Cartier
French humanist whose theological writings profoundly influenced religious thoughts of Europeans. Developed Calvinism at Geneva
John Calvin
German theologian who led the Reformation (believed Grace was granted based on faith)
Martin Luther
(1491-1547) King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Henry established the Church of England in 1532.
King Henry VIII
enabled groups of investors to pool their capital and limit their individual responsibilities to the sums actually invested
joint-stock componies
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada with secrete aid from Elizabeth I
Francis Duke
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America, but decided to move to a better area and was killed in a storm on his way home
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia (Roanoke)
Walter Raleigh
Established in 1587, the first English colony, called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don’t know what became of the
Roanoke
Main promoter of colonization by England (with royal aid) in the New World. Reasons included surplus of English labor and thwarting Spain.
Richard Hakluyt
succeeded Elizabeth I, persecuted the Puritans, led to many moving to america
King James I
group of merchants who paid for the founding of Jamestown
London company
English army captain whose strict discipline helped the Jamestown settlement to survive
Captain John SMith
First permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
Jamestown
English settler at Jamestown (he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
John Rolfe
original tribes in the area surrounding Jamestown, gave the settlers food, taught them the ways of the forests and introduced new crops (corn and yams), constantly warring with the settlers
powhaten indinans
the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts.
House of Burgesses
A colony under the direct control of a monarch (English Crown)
royal colony
Protestant sect in England hoping to “purify” the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization, stressed simplicity and faith. Settled the Mass. Bay Colony
Puritans
the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs), created by Henry VIII
Anglican church
16th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God’s sovereignity, stresses free will
Arminianism
People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims.
Separatists
A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks.
William Bradford
a history of Plymouth written by William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation
Native American leader and friend of the early colonists. He was the first to sell land to the Pilgrims (1625).
Samoset
Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques (fish, farm and hunt) and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.
squanto
the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
mayflower
1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.
mayflower compact
English Puritans, seeking religious freedom, who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
pilgrams
Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times (1630-1640)
great migration
1630 - Puritan settlement and government in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Providence, Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
Anne Hutchinson
the theological doctrine that by faith and God’s grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture), religious leaders are unnecessary
antinomianism
Roger WIlliams; Puritans; wanted religious tolerance, separation of church and state and democratic gov.
Rhode Island
Founded in 1639, drafted the Fundamental Orde
Thomas Hooker and Connecticut
The constitution of the Connecticut River colony drawn up in 1639, it established a government controlled in democratic style by the “substantial” citizens.
fundamental orders
1637 The Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot, result of competition for Dutch trade and friction over land boundaries; pequot virtually wiped out
pequot wars
Chief of the Wampanoag Indians who led an attack on villages throughout New England. This was the largest conflict in 1675, called King Phillip’s War (he was nicknamed “King Phillip”)
metacom
an attack on villages throughout New England in an effort to drive out the English. This was the largest conflict in 1675, led by Metacom
King Phillip’s War
persons given large areas of land by a charter from the king
proprietors
Founded by Lord Baltimore, safe haven for Catholics, created the Act of Toleration
Maryland
1694- He was the founder of Maryland, a colony which offered religious freedom, and a refuge for the persecuted Roman Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
act that allowed freedom of worship for all Christians in Maryland, kept peace between Catholics and Protestants
Toleration Act
1690 - The first permanent settlement in the Carolinas, named in honor of King Charles II. Much of the population were Huguenot (French Protestant) refugees.
Charleston
a settlement established by the Dutch, captured by the English and renamed New York
New Amsterdam
was established in 1638, taken over by New Netherlands (the Dutch) in 1655 and encompassed southern NJ, parts of PA and Delaware
New Sweden
Charles II gave the entire area between Connecticut and Maryland to his brother. This created a problem with the Dutch who occupied this area. In 1664 English forces capture New Amsterdam without a fight and the rest of the Dutch settlements soon followed. He gave New jersey to Lord Berkely and Sir George Carteret.
Duke of York
English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preach a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
Quakers
Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
William Penn