Exploration, Discovery, Settlement 1492-1700

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Sioux & Pawnee

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Followed buffalo herds

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Land bridge

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Migrants from Asia crossed; connected Siberia and Alaska (now submerged under the Bering Sea)

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Pueblos

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Lives in Southwest; multistoried buildings, intricate irrigation systems for farming

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Permanent settlements

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Supported by hunting, fishing, agriculture

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Mayas

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Cities in southern Mexico

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Aztecs

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Central Mexico; capital tenochtitlan

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Incas

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Peru

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Renaissance

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Rebirth of classical learning and outburst of artistic and scientific activity

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Protestant reformation

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Certain Christians revolted against the authority of the pope in Rome

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Nation-State

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A country in which the majority of people share both a common culture and common political loyalties toward a central government

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Treaty of tordesillas

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1493:Moved the line a few degrees west that the pope drew dividing the new world (Spain west; Portugal east)

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Italian explorer, said Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia’s eastern outskirts as initially guessed from Columbus’ voyages

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Henry the Navigator

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Portugal’s Prince; opened up long sea route around south Africa’s cape of good hope

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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financing Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage

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Vasco núñez de balboa

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Journey across the isthmus of panama to the Pacific Ocean

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Circumnavigation

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Hernan cortés

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Conquest of Aztecs

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Francisco Pizarro

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Conquest of incas

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Encomienda system

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King of Spain have grants of land and Indians to individual spaniards (Indians ha to work farm, do labor)

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Asiento system

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Spanish must pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas

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John Cabot

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Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings visits to Vinland

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Giovanni de Verrazano

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Italian navigator; explored North America’s eastern coast

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Jacques Cartier

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Explored St Lawrence river

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Samuel de Champlain

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(“Father of New France”) 1608 at Quebec; est. French settlement in America; village on st Lawrence river

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Henry Hudson

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Dutch hired; English seaman; seek northwest passage, 1609 sailed up a broad river, est. Dutch claims

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Joint stock company

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Pool the savings of people of moderate means and support trade ventures that seem potentially profitable

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Jamestown

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1607 Virginia company (Joint-stock company) that est. the first permanent English colony in America; suffered hardships Indian attacks famine disease

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Captain John smith

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Leader of Jamestown colony

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John Rolfe

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Est tobacco industry for Jamestown

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Indentured servant

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Person who in exchange for free transportation to a colony was obligated to work on a plantation for a certain number of years

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Royal colony

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A colony under the control of a king or queen

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John Calvin

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Taught ideas of predestination; belief that god guides those who are to be saved

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Church of England (Anglican Church)

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Protestant in that it was under the control of the English monarch not the pope in Rome

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Puritans

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People who wanted to change the ceremonies and hierarchy of the Church of England; wanted to “purify” their church of catholic influences

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Separatists

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Group of puritans that rejected the idea of simply reforming the Church of England ; wanted to organize a completely separate church, one that was independent of royal control

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Pilgrims

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Separatists who left England in search of religious freedom, migrated, settle a new colony in America, boarded the Mayflower 1620

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Plymouth

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The mayflower hit a stormy voyage and missed the destination of Virginia so just stayed at Plymouth; harsh winter caused half to perish but the Native Americans helped the pilgrims adapt to grow slowly

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Massachusetts bay colony

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1629: Seeking religious freedom, a group of puritans (who weren’t separatists) gained a royal charter for a new colonizing venture

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Royal charter

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formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate

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John Winthrop

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Led about a thousand puritans to Massachusetts; Also founded Boston and other towns

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Great migration

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1630s: Civil war in England drove some 15,000 settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Mayflower compact (Plymouth)

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1620: pilgrims on the mayflower drew up and signed a document pledging to make decisions by the will of the majority (early form of self government and constitution)

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House of burgesses

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Virginia company guaranteed colonists rights in Jamestown just as England did; the right to be represented in the lawmaking process; first representative assembly in America

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Spanish policy towards native Americans

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Conquer, rule, intermarry with Aztecz, Mayas, Incas

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English policy towards Native Americans

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Occupied the land, forced small, scattered tribes away

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French policy towards Native Americans

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Traded and were allies with them; little threat