History(The American Revolution) Flashcards
Age of Exploration
Portugal
Their significance to the age of exploration
Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan. Water route. Trading ports in India and the coast of Africa.
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Spain
Their significance
Christopher Columbus. Portugal and Spain agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas. It divided the new world between them.
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France
Their significance
They targeted northern North America(Canada). Furs and trade. Traded/worked with the natives. Did not want to colonize.
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England
Their goal was to find as much gold as possible. Mystery of Roanoke Island. (John White)
The settlers went missing after the war between England and Spain.
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Vikings
It was after Rome fell. A total collapse of society. They went everywhere and killed people and stole from people. They were catholic christian.
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Vasco De Gama
He was from Portugal. He was the first person to travel from Portugal to India and then back to Portugal by water. It took him 2 years.
Renaissance
Reformation
The pope had to raise money to build the Vatican and they needed money. They went to a monk called Tetzel and he created the indugence. Martin Luther then wrote his 95 Thesis and the people started thinking for themselves.
Indulgence is a free path to heaven as long as you pay money.
Renaissance
Humanism and Individualism
Humanism is the term that humans are good without god. Individualism is that people can do things on their own without the church.
New Technologies
Sextant and Astroblade
They are both navigation tools. The sextant measures the distance between two objects and the astroblade measurs longitude and latitude using stars.
They both improved exploration.
New Technologies
The Caravel
They were made for merchants and exploring. Smaller and lighter than galleons.
Galleons were the old warships.
Mayflower Compact
It was for people to agree to obey the government and laws in the plymouth colony.
Squanto
He was a member of the pawtuxet and could speak english.
John Smith
He takes over Jamestown. He establishes order and he got people to work. The Natives only helped John Smith. After he leaves, everyone stops working and the went into starving winter.
John Raulph
He goes to Jamestown with tobacco seeds and Jamestown(Virginia) becomes an economic colony. 800 years later.
Pocahontas
She marries John Raulph. Daughter of the chief of the Powhatan tribe.
Plymouth vs Jamestown
People went to Plymouth because they disagreed with the beliefs of the church. They were dissenters and left and became separatists. Natives helped them after a hard winter and they got better. The people who went to Jamestown went because of economic reasons and religious persectution. John Smith and John Raulph.
Mercantalism
Trading system where a mother country establishes colonies to trade with.
William Penn
He founded the Quakers. In Pennsylvania. They were pacifists.
Quakers
They believed in friendhship, education and equality. They were viewed as dangerous and many moved to England. Pennsylvania was nice to the Natives.
Not like other colonies.
James Ogelthorpe
He came up with the idea that debtors and the poor could make a new start. The king let him put them in Georgia. It didn’t work. It then became a buffer zone.
Intolerable Acts
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament decided to punish the Bostonians and established the Intolerable Acts. It prevented Massachusets from governing itself. It strengthened the quartering act. Troops could take over a private person’s home. Port would be closed until destroyed tea was paid.
Also known as the coercive acts.
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Repeal
An act of revoking a law.
After the Boston Massacre, the Townshend Acts were repealed.
The stamp act was also repealed.
Battle of Lexington/Concord
They were the start of the revolution. The British wanted to surprise the Militia but they ended up starting the war.
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Battle of Saratoga
Danial Morgan helped lead it. Burgoyne(British), was by himslef because Howe went to Philadelphia. They surrendered. It was the turing point of the Revolutionary war.
