Period 1/2: 1491-1754 (Chapters 1-3) Flashcards
Columbian Exchange
Contact between Europeans and the natives of America touched off a trans-atlantic trade in animals, plants, and germs
King Ferdinand and Isabelle
married 1469
Isabelle (queen of Castille) and ferndinand (king of Argon) fought against moors 1492
built an empire
Christopher Columbus
European Explorer
funded by Isabelle and Ferdinand to find India
launch of Granada
Power to the Roman Catholics
Hispaniola
An island where the first fort built by Columbus stood. It was named Fort Navidad.
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
moved the demarcation line a couple degrees to the left
spanish/portugul
Prodestant Reformation
Northern European countries revolt against the Pope
Indulgences
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Martin Luther
1500
lived as a monk, was the best monk they had ever seen, but saw no sign of salvation, realized that there was a separation from god and the church, separated from the church, caused the revolution (prodestant)
Calvinism
Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.
Drove to protestant religious motivation and thus the creation of Massachusetts Bay
Predestination
That god has selected those who will be saved even before they are born
Henry VIII and Church of England
1500
breaks away from the church
Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603)
pirated spanish ships
Spanish Armada
Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
Was defeated by Englands army
The (Catholic) Counter Reformation
The Counter-Reformation (also the Catholic Revival or Catholic Reformation) was the period of Catholic resurgence beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years’ War (1648), and was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Council of Trent
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Ignatius Loyola
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King James I
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Charles I
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English Civil War
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Oliver Cromwell
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Navigation Acts
in response to the triangular trade
Charles II implemented these in 1660
James II
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Glorious Revolution
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William of Orange and Mary
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English Bill of Rights
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Constitutional/Limited Monarchy
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John Locke
helped start the scientific revolution
wrote a book describing the potential of the human brain (showing that it is our job to fill our brains with knowledge (not predestined))
Jamestown
1607 virginia Company
charter of King James
Tabacco
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Head-Right System
1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was used as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage. With the emergence of tobacco farming, a large supply of workers was needed. New settlers who paid their way to Virginia received 50 acres of land.
Virginia House of Burgesses
wealthy land owners chose representatives to go to James Town
Indentured Servants
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Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Mostly White labor force (servants) in Chesapeake but with this Blacks become the worker of choice
(Slaves)
Chesapeake Slavery
mainly white servants into 1700
Puritans
The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
Mayflower Compact
Begining of the constitution
Plymouth
1620
seperatists
Bradford, Standish, and Winthrop-
John Winthrop
English Puritan lawyer
founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony.
His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan “city upon a hill” dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.
City Upon a Hill
Whinthrop
Roger Williams
English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence.[1]
Williams was also a student of Native American languages, an early advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, and arguably the first abolitionist in North America, having organized the first attempt to prohibit slavery in any of the British American colonies.