Colonial America (1492-1754) Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Iroquois Confederacy

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1) Political differences made Native Americans to respond to the European threat
2) Most powerful alliance and generations of tribal warfare

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Columbian Exchange

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1) Exchange of food, plants, animals, and diseases
2 )became dependent on the fur trade
3) Smallpox and other disease killed natives

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Native Americans & British Similarities

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1) Lived in villages
2) Religion
3) Divided labor by Gender
4) Agriculture

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Native Americans & British Differences

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1) Private Property

2) Children stayed with Mothers families (Native)

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Virginia Company

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1) joint stock company that mainly wanted to make a profit

2) Religion was not a big part

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Tobacco

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1) Made Chesapeake bay colony $$$

2) Most valuable cash crop

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Indentured Servants

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Key Role in tobacco in Maryland and Virginia before 1675

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Slaves

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grew rapidly on the plantation- replaced indentured servants

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Headright System

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If you paid, you were promised 50 acres of land in America

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Puritans

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1) Came from New England to escape religious persecution

2) Live in farm villages

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John Winthrop

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Leader of the Puritans

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Puritans & their Community

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1) Relationship between church and state

2) Founded colleges (Harvard and Yale)

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Puritan Beliefs

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1) Wanted an ideal Christian society

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“A City Upon A Hill”

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1) Named by Winthrop

2) city with a strict code of conduct

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Puritan Religion

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wanted their own free religion, but didn’t tolerate others

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Anne Hutchinson

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1) Massachusetts Bay authorities arguments over religious doctrine and gender roles
2) claimed to have revelations from God
3) Banished to Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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1) Founded Rhode Island

2) Religious toleration and freedom

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Halfway Covenant

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1) Puritans strict toleration began to decline

2) eased requirements for church membership

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First Great Awakening

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1) Caused a lot of religious revivals in the 1740s

2) Advocated a New light approach

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New Light religion

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emotional approach to the practicing of religion

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Old Light religion

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traditional practicing

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New Light Ministers

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1) Created Princeton University
2) African American Slaves followed this
3) emotional connection
4) Presbyterian
5) Women more involved

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Pennsylvania

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1) Founded By William Penn
2) created a liberated colony with a representative assembly elected by land owners
3) Freedom of religion

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Quakers

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1) Pacifists with the right to bear arms
2) Freedom of Worship and accepted women
3) Americans first slavery abolitionists

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Pre Rev Economic Society
1) Merchants & planters were $$$ 2) Different Europeans were coming over 3) Slavery main labor force 4) trading manufactured goods through many ports with England
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13 colonies
1) Religiously diverse 2) culturally diverse 3) agriculture
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Mercantilism
Englands economic philosophy that your power was determined by your wealth
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Navigation acts
Colonial products were only allowed to be shipped to England
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Salutary Neglect
British neglecting to enforce some laws in the colonies
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Women in the colonies
1) Couldn't own property unless widowed | 2) No legal identity apart from her husband
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Republicanism
the belief that the government should be based on the consent of the governed
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Republican Government
preferred over a monarchy