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History 11 Mid Term Flashcards

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Bering Strait Theory

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  • The most popular theory of how the native Indians landed on the Americas
  • Between Alaska and Siberia
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Paleo and Archaic America

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  • Paleo - Lived in groups of 15-20
  • 12k to 15k years ago
  • 1st group diverse in food
  • Archaic - Gender roles started between them -Men hunted
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Horticulture

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  • they were much more settled so they had time to grow crop.. learn the land
  • 3 major crops the developed -Maize -Squash -Beans
  • They ended up with bad crops and failed
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Hohokam and the Anasazi

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  • came from America southwest people
  • they traded a lot with central Mexico
  • started the fist irrigation systems
  • they did do crop rotation so they failed
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Mound Builders

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  • Mississippi river people
  • Cahokia mounds on the hills where there should be flat plains
  • they had lots of water people they use the flood plains
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Cahokia

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  • Is the largest mound
  • could have at least 40k population
  • they had a watch tower and walls around it.
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Over population

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• is why some people in Europe wanted to come to the Americas

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New merchant class

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• there were more people wanting to succeed to it formed a new group or entrepreneurs

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navigation advances

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• during that time there were new advancements in navigation

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mercantilism

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  • there was limited wealth in Europe because of the amount of people
  • people want to gain wealth
  • wealth is in raw materials
  • helps gain money for the mother country
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Christopher Columbus

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  • Italian Sailor, Born in 1415, Dad was a weaver, Grew up a poor kid
  • Columbus worked with the Portuguese and they were good at navigation
  • Goal for the Portuguese was to get around India
  • Columbus wants a new way around asia
  • he was inaccurate about global size
  • So he tried to use religion to help sponser him - he thinks he can claim with the journey to explore they can spread religious beliefs - Convert Natives to Catholic
  • He gets the Spanish support
  • he ends up making 4 voyages total
  • he then became Governor and Admiral of the new islands
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Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain

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She helped christopher colobus in sponsorship from spain.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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(June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia’s eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus’ voyages,

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Henry VIII

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•	1509-47
•	had six wives 
	1)Divorced -The pope wouldn't let him divorce so he starts his own church - Church of England making himself the head of church.
	2)Beheaded 
	3)Died
	4)Divorced
	5)Beheaded
	6)Survived
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Roanoke

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  • 1585 North Carolina Coast

* John White left 115 settlers - When he finally returned they were all gone.

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Jamestown

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  • 1607 chesapeak Bay
  • wealth driving force
  • struggles to succeed
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Head-right system

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a legal grant of land to settlers. Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the thirteen British colonies in North America; the Virginia Company of London gave headrights to settlers, and the Plymouth Company followed suit. The headright system was used in several colonies, including Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Most headrights were for 1 to 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land, and were given to anyone willing to cross the Atlantic Ocean and help populate the colonies.

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Maryland

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  • 1634
  • started as a refuge for English Catholics
  • became the first religious tolerant colony
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The Chesapeake

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  • the people were spread out so they got sick less and lived a little longer.
  • Women were hard to come by. 4 men to 1 women
  • 1/3 of them lost their parents by adulthood.
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The Middle Passage

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  • this is the way slaves got brought from africa
  • journey across the atlantic ocean
  • 13% of the people taken die on the voyage.
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Bacon’s Rebellion

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  • Bacon wanted to fight against the govenor because he wants to move west and do trade.
  • so he makes an army consisting of a few other farmer, indentured servants and slaves.
  • They get in a fight with some natives and get taken down
  • this resulted in the separation of the slaves and the indentured servants because they saw the power the two united could be.
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Puritans

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  • They were the most radical of the religious settlers.

* Pilgrims were puritans but not all puritans are pilgrims. Pilgrims are extreme puritans.

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Pilgrims

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  • they are seperatist that came from Holand
  • in 1617 some of the pilgrims get together (about 100) and get a boat (Mayflower).
  • They get to the Americas where there was land that no one had claimed.
  • before they got off the boat they all signed the “Mayflower Compact”
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Massachusetts Bay Company

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Massachusetts Bay Colony begun in 1628, was successful, with about 20,000 people migrating to New England in the 1630s. The population was strongly Puritan, and its governance was dominated by a small group of leaders who were strongly influenced by Puritan

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Great Puritan Migration

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  • 17 ships, 1,000 people over several settlements including Boston
  • It was their idea if they wanted to run perfectly so when England was in trouble England would come to the for help.
  • 1630’s there were
  • Halfway Covenant 20k migrants
  • Crops were bad so they had to get into trade.
  • They had to do a “conversion experience” of the church
  • over time, the church members die out
  • less people say they were saved
  • they rule is - if you don’t participate in church then you can’t participate politically
  • So they create “1/2 way membership to the church to have more involvement

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