H's Flashcards
“haciendas”
Large manors or estates, developed by the Spanish as a similar but somewhat milder system than the “encomienda” system, to which Spaniards imported African slaves to supply their labor needs as the Indian population died from overwork and European diseases
Half-Way Covenant
a proposal by some Puritan clergymen in 162 that provided a sort of half-way church membership for the children of members, even though those children, upon reaching adulthood, did not profess saving grace as was normally required for Puritan church membership
William Henry Harrison
an American general who destroyed Tecumseh’s village on Tippecanoe Creek and dashed his hopes for an Indian confederacy; invaded Canada in 1813 and defeated a combination British and Indian forces at the Battle of the Thames; and in 1840, was elected the ninth president of the United States; he died a month after his inauguration, thereby serving the shortest term in presidential history
Hartford Convention
an 1814 meeting at which Federalists from the New England states met in Hartford, Connecticut, and drafted a set of resolutions suggesting nullification - and even secession - if their interest were not protected against the growing influence of the South and the West
Patrick Henry
A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who introduced seven resolutions denouncing the Stamp Act and denying Parliament’s authority to tax the colonies, four of which were passed
Hessians
The name given by the colonists to troops from various German principalities that were hired by the British to supplement their own army
Homestead Act
an 1862 law that granted 160 acres of government land free of charge to any person who would farm it for at least five years; much of the West was eventually settled under the provisions of this act
House of Burgesses
the first representative assembly in North America, founded in 1619 in Virginia through the influence of reformers in the Virginia Company of London to attract more British settlers to Virginia
House servants
black slaves who were usually considered the most favored since they were spared the hardest physical labor and enjoyed the most intimate relationship with the owner’s family
Sam Houston
Elected as president of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and the leader of the Texas troops who defeated Mexican dictator Santa Anna at San Jacinto that same year, forcing the Mexicans to let Texas go its own way
Richard Howe
the brother of General William Howe and the British naval commander in the War of Independence
William Howe
the general with top command of the British army during the War of Independence
Henry Hudson
an Englishman who was sent by Holland in 1609 to explore North America in search of a Northwest Passage and who discovered the Hudson River
Hudson River School
a group of mid-nineteenth-century landscape painters, notably George Catlin and John James Audobon, who portrayed the awesomeness of nature in America
Huguenots
French Protestants who attempted to escape persecution in Catholic France by settling in the New World
