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1
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Recorded history began 6,000 years ago. It was ___ years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization

A

500

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The theory of _____ exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands.

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Pangaea

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3
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Geologic forces of continental plates created the ________ and ______ _________

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Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.

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The _____ ___ ___ thrust down over North America & scoured the present day American Midwest

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Great Ice Age

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As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over ______ _______.

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North America

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The theory holds that a Land Bridge emerged linking ____ & ____ ______ across what is now known as the Bering Sea. People were said to have _____ across the “bridge” before the sea level rose and sealed it off; thus populating the Americas.

A

Asia & North America; walked

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7
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(The Land Bridge Theory)
Many peoples
Those groups that traversed the bridge spread across ____, _______, and ______ ________.
Countless tribes emerged with an estimated _____ languages.

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North, Central, and South America; 2,000

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8
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The Land Bridge is said to have occurred an estimated _____ years ago.

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35,000

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9
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Yucatan Peninsula, with their step pyramids

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Mayas

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10
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Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire

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Incas

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11
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Mexico, with step pyramids and huge sacrifices of conquered peoples

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Aztecs

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12
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Development of corn or maize around ______ __ in Mexico was revolutionary in that: Then, people didn’t have to be _________; they could settle down and be farmers. Gave rise to towns and cities..

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5,000 B.C. ; hunter-gatherers

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13
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Corn arrived in the present day U.S. around ______

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1,200 B.C.

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14
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The _____ were the 1st American corn growers.

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Pueblos

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15
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They lived in ____ houses (dried mud) and Pueblos (“villages” in Spanish). Pueblos are _____ of cubicle shaped adobe houses, stacked one on top the other and often beneath cliffs.

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adobe; villages

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They had elaborate _______ _______ to draw water away from rivers to grown corn

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irrigation systems

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17
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these people built huge ceremonial and burial mounds and were located in the Ohio Valley.

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Mound builders

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18
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near East St. Louis today, held _____ people.

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Cahokia; 40,000

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19
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Eastern Indians grew corn, beans, and squash in ____ _____ ______

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three sister farming

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20
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This group likely had the best (most diverse) diet of all North American Indians and is typified by the ______, _____, _______, and _______

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Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw (South) and Iroquois (North).

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21
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was the legendary leader of the Iroquois Confederation

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Hiawatha

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22
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a group of 5 tribes in New York state

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The Iroquois Confederation

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23
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The Iroquois were matrilineal as ______ and possessions passed down through the _____ line.

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authority, female

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24
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Native Americans had a very different view of things as compared to _______

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Europeans;
• Native Americans felt no man owned the land, the tribe did. (Europeans liked private property)
• Indians felt nature was mixed with many spirits. (Europeans were Christian and monotheistic)
• Indians felt nature was sacred. (Europeans felt nature and land was given to man by God in Genesis to be subdued and put to use).
• Indians had little or no concept or interest in money. (Europeans loved money or gold)

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25
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The 1st Europeans to come to America were the

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Norse (Vikings from Norway).

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26
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Around 1000 AD, the Vikings landed, led by ____ ___ ____ and Leif Erikson.

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Erik the Red

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27
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The vikings landed in

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Vinland or Newfoundland

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28
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The vikings left with no _____ _______, therefore got no credit

A

written records

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29
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The _____ ______ of Middle Ages fought in Palestine to regain the Holy Land from Muslims. This mixing of East and West created a sweet-tooth where Europeans wanted the ____ of the exotic East.

A

Christian Crusaders; spices

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30
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traveled to China and stirred up a storm of European interest.

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Marco Polo

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31
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…. an East to West (Asia to Europe) trade flourished but had to be overland, at least in part. This initiated new exploration down around Africa in hopes of an easier (all water) route.

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because of a desire for spices

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32
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started a sailing school to find better ways to get to the Spice Islands, eventually rounding Africa’s southern Cape of Good Hope.

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Portugal

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33
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a ship with triangular sail that could better tack (zig-zag) ahead into the wind and thus return to Europe from Africa coast

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Caravel

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34
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to determine direction

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Compass

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35
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a sextant gizmo that could tell a ship’s latitude.

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astrolabe

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36
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The 1st slave trade was across

A

the Sahara Desert and then across the West African Coast

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37
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Slave traders purposely busted up _____ and ______ in order to squelch any possible uprising.

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tribes and families

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38
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Slaves wound up on _____ _______ the Portuguese had set up on the tropical islands off Africa’s coast

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sugar plantations

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39
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Spain watched Portugal’s success with _______ and slaving and wanted a piece of the pie.

A

exploration

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40
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Christopher Columbus convinced _______ __ ______ to fund his expedition

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Isabella and Ferdinand

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41
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His goal was to reach the ____ by sailing west, thus bypassing the around-Africa route that Portugal monopolized

A

East (East Indies)

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42
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He misjudged the size of the Earth though, thinking it ___ the size of what it was.
So, after __ ____ or so at sea, when he struck land, he assumed he’d made it to the East Indies and therefore mistook the people as “_______.”

A

1/3; 6 weeks; Indians

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43
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would provide the market, capital, technology

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Europe

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44
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would provide the labor

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Africa

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45
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would provide the raw materials (gold, soil, lumber)

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The New World

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46
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Of huge importance was the biological flip-flop of Old and New Worlds. Simply put, we traded life such as plants, foods, animals, germs. The Fiora and the Fauna.

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The Colombian Exchange

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47
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Corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, peppers, manioc, pumpkin, squash, tomato, wild rice, etc. also, syphilis.

A

From the New World (America) to the Old

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48
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cows, pigs, horses, wheat, sugar cane, apples, cabbage, citrus, carrots, Kentucky bluegrass, etc. ;devastating diseases (smallpox, yellow fever, malaria), as Indians had no immunities.

A

From the Old World to the New

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49
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Slave Labor

A

Africa

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50
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The ______ had no immunities in their systems built up over generations.

A

Indians

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51
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An estimated ___ of all pre-Columbus Indians died, mostly due to disease.

A

90%

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52
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Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The Pope drew this line as he was respected by both.

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Treaty Line of Tordesillas 1494

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53
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got everything east of the line (Brazil and land around/under Africa)

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Portugal

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54
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got everything west of the line (which turned out to be much more, though they didn’t know it at the time)

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Spain

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55
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“discovered” the Pacific Ocean across isthmus of Panama

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Vasco Balboa (1513)

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56
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circumnavigates the globe (1st to do so)

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Ferdinand Magellan (1510-1522)

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57
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touches and names Florida looking for legendary Fountain of Youth

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Ponce de Leon (1513-1521)

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58
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enters Florida, travels up into present day Southeastern U.S., dies and is “buried” in Mississippi River

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Hernando Cortes (1539-1542)

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59
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conquers Incan Empire of Peru and begins shipping tons of gold/silver back to Spain. This huge influx of precious metals made European prices skyrocket (inflation).

A

Francisco Pizzaro (1532)

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60
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ventured into current Southwest U.S. looking for legendary El Dorado, city of gold. He found the Pueblo Indians.

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Francisco Coronado (1540-1542)

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61
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Indians were “commended” or given to Spanish landlords
The idea of the ______ was that Indians would work and be converted to Christianity, but it was basically just slavery on a sugar plantation disguised as missionary work. Bartolomé De Las Casas said it was a “moral pestilence”.

A

encomienda

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62
Q

conquered the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan. Went from Cuba to present day Vera Cruz, then marched over mountains to the Aztec capital.

A

Hernan Cortez

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63
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Aztec king, thought Cortez might be the god Quetzalcoatl who was due to re-appear the very year. He welcomed Cortez into Tenochtitlan.

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Montezuma

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64
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The Spanish lust for ____ led Montezuma to attack on the “noche triste”, sad night. Cortez and men fought their way out, but it was ________ that eventually beat the Indians.

A

gold; smallpox

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65
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The Spanish then destroyed Tenochtitlan, building the Spanish ______ (____ ___) exactly on top of the Aztec city.

A

capital; Mexico City

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66
Q

A new race of people emerged, ______, a mix of Spanish and Indian blood

A

mestizos

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67
Q

Spanish society quickly spread through

A

Peru and Mexico

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68
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(an Italian who sailed for England) touched the coast of the current day U.S. (1497-1498)

A

John Cabot

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69
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(france) also touched on the North American seaboard. (1524)

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Giovanni de Verrazano

70
Q

(france) went into mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. (1534)

A

Jacques Cartier

71
Q

Spain set up ____ (presidios) all over the California coast to oppose threats from neighbors. Also used cities, like St. Augustine in Florida.

A

forts

72
Q

followed Coronado’s old path into present day New Mexico. He conquered the Indians ruthlessly, maiming them by cutting off one foot of survivors just so they’d remember.

A

Don Juan de Onate

73
Q

Despite mission efforts, the _____ _____ revolted in Pope’s Rebellion

A

Pueblo Indians

74
Q

sailed down the Mississippi River for France claiming the whole region for their King Louis and naming the area “Louisiana” after his king. This started a slew of place-names for that area, from ______, Illinois to “Louisville” and then on down to New Orleans (the American counter of Joan of Arc’s famous victory at Orleans).

A

Robert de la Salle; La Salle

75
Q

founds first California Mission in San Diego

A

Serra

76
Q

was the notion that Spaniards only brought bad things (murder, disease, slavery); though true, they also brought good things such as law systems, architecture, Christianity, language, civilization, so this is partly, but not entirely, accurate.

A

The Black Legend

77
Q

in 1600 was largely unclaimed, though the Spanish had much control in Central and South America

A

North America

78
Q

Set up Santa Fe

A

Spain

79
Q

Set up Quebec

A

France

80
Q

Set up Jamestown

A

Britain

81
Q

failed to effectively colonize due to internal conflicts in the 1500s

A

Britain

82
Q

broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s and launched the English Protestant Reformation.

A

King Henry VIII

83
Q

After _______ __ became queen (1588), Britain became basically Protestant, and a rivalry with Catholic Spain intensified

A

Elizabeth I

84
Q

In ______, the Catholics sought Spain’s help in revolting against England, but the English crushed the uprising with brutal atrocity, and developed an attitude of sneering contempt for natives.

A

Ireland

85
Q

one of Queen Elizabeth’s favorite attendants. He challenged the Catholics dominance, and was later beheaded for treason.

A

Sir Walter Raleigh

86
Q

pirated Spanish ships for gold then circumnavigated the globe. Elizabeth I knighted him on his ship. Obviously, this reward angered the Spanish who sought revenge.

A

Francis Drake

87
Q

English attempts at colonization in the New World (Newfoundland) failed embarrassingly. Notable of these failures was Sir Walter Raleigh and the ______ Island Colony, better known as “___ ____ ______.”

A

Roanoke; The Lost Colony

88
Q

attacked Britain but lost in the Spanish Armada’s defeat of 1588. This opened the door for Britain to cross the Atlantic, and they immediately took over in colonization and power.

A

Spain

89
Q

Victory also fueled England to new heights due to (SPAM)

A

o Strong government
o Popular monarch
o A sense of nationalism
o More religious unity

90
Q

Golden age of literature

A

Shakespeare

91
Q

Britain and Spain finally signed a peace treaty in

A

1604

92
Q

New policy of ______ (fencing in land) for farming. This meant there was less or no land for the poor.

A

enclosure

93
Q

The ______ _____ fell upon hard times economically. This meant the workers lost jobs.

A

woolen districts

94
Q

Tradition of ________ = 1st born son inherits ALL the father’s land. Therefore, younger sons of rich folk (who couldn’t inherit money) tried their luck with fortunes elsewhere, like America.

A

primogeniture

95
Q

By the 1600s, the _____ ____ _______ was perfected (investors put money into the company with hopes for a good return), being a forerunner of today’s corporations

A

joint-stock company

96
Q

In 1606, the _____ _______ received a charter from King James I to make a settlement in the New World.

A

Virginia Company

97
Q

The charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed settlers the _____ _____ as Englishmen in Britain.

A

same rights

98
Q

On (Date), about 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown.

A

May 24, 1607

99
Q

__ colonists perished during the voyage.

A

40

100
Q

o the swampy site of Jamestown meant poor drinking water and mosquitoes causing malaria and yellow fever.
o Men wasted time looking for gold rather than doing useful tasks (digging wells, building shelter, planting crops)
o There were zero women on the initial ship.

A

Problems that emerged in Jamestown

101
Q

a supply ship shipwrecked in the ______ in 1609 either

A

Bahamas

102
Q

in 1608, a _____ ____ _____ took over control and whipped the colonists into shape.

A

Captain John Smith

103
Q

_____ ____ accompanied John Smith on his expedition to Virginia

A

George Percy

104
Q

he was kidnapped by local Indians and forced into a mock execution by the chief Powhatan and had been “saved” by Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas.
(The act was meant to show that Powhatan wanted peaceful relations with the colonists)

A

John Smith

105
Q

John Smith’s main contribution was that he gave order and discipline, highlighted by his

A

“no work, no food” policy

106
Q

in ____ a relief party headed by Lord De La Warr arrived to alleviate the suffering

A

1610

107
Q

By 1625, out of an original overall total of 8,000 would-be settlers, only ______ had survived.

A

1,200

108
Q

possibly considered the new colonists potential allies and tried to be friendly with them, but as time passed and colonists raided Indian food supplies, relations deteriorated and eventually, war occurred.

A

Powhatan

109
Q

ended in 1614 with a peace settlement sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe. Rolfe & Pocahontas nurtured a favorable flavor of sweet tobacco.

A

The First Anglo-Powhatan War

110
Q

began in 1644, ended in 1646, and effectively banished the Chesapeake Indians from their ancestral lands.

A

The Second Anglo-Powhatan War

111
Q

In ___ the Indians struck again with a series of attacks that left 347 settlers, including John Rolfe, dead.

A

1622

112
Q

fell due to disease, disorganization, and disposability

A

Powhatans

113
Q

After the settlers began to ____ ____ ____ _____ the Indians were useless, and were therefore banished

A

grow their own food

114
Q

Jamestown’s gold is found and it is

A

tobacco

115
Q

was the father of the tobaccos industry. His sweet tobacco was sought as a cash crop by Europe. (1612)

A

Rolfe

116
Q

Tobacco created a greed for land, since it heavily depleted the soil and ruined the land. “Bewitching weed” & ______ _________

A

King Nicotine.

117
Q

Representative self-government was born in Virginia, when in 1619, settlers created the ______ __ _______, a committee to work out local issues. This set America on a self-rule pathway.

A

House of Burgesses

118
Q

The first African Americans to arrive in America also came in ___. It’s unclear if they were slaves or indentured servants.

A

1619

119
Q

In 1650, VA counted 300 blacks, and they made up 14% of the colony’s population; _ to _ ratio

A

4 to 1

120
Q

______ _ grows hostile towards VA. He hated tobacco, and called the House of Burgesses the “Seminary of Sedition”. In 1624 he revoked the charter of the bankrupt and beleaguered the Virginia Company.

A

James I

121
Q

was found in Maryland (catholic heaven)

A

Religious Diversity

122
Q

Founded in 1634 by ____ ______, Maryland was the second plantation colony and the fourth overall colony to be formed.

A

Lord Baltimore

123
Q

It was founded to be a place for _______ Catholics to find refuge, a safe haven

A

persecuted

124
Q

Lord Baltimore gave huge estates to his Catholic ______, but the poorer people who settled there were mostly Protestant, creating friction. They prospered with tobacco

A

relatives

125
Q

had a lot of indentured servants

A

Maryland

126
Q

Only in the later years of the 1600s (in Maryland and Virginia) did ______ ______ begin to become popular.

A

Black slavery

127
Q

Maryland’s statute, the ___ ___ _______, guaranteed religious toleration to all Christians, but decreed the death penalty to Jews and atheists and others who didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.

A

Act of Toleration

128
Q

As the British were colonizing Virginia, they were also settling into the _____ ______ (Spain’s declining power opened the door).

A

West Indies

129
Q

______ England was still prosecuting Roman Catholics.

A

Protestant

130
Q

By mid-1600s, England had secured claim to several West Indies islands, including ______ in 1655.

A

Jamaica

131
Q

They grew lots of _____ on brutal plantations there

A

sugar

132
Q

Thousands of African slaves were needed to operate sugar plantations. At first, Indians were intended to be used, but disease killed an estimated ___ of all Native Americans. So, Africans were brought in.

A

90%

133
Q

To control so many slaves, “_____” were set up that defined the legal status of slaves and the rights of the masters. They were typically strict and exacted severe punishments for offenders.

A

codes

134
Q

In England, King Charles I had been beheaded. _____ ______ had ruled for ten very strict years before tired Englishmen restored Charles II to the throne in “The Restoration.” (After all the turmoil Civil War, they just went back to a king.)

A

Oliver Cromwell

135
Q

The _____ period had interrupted colonization

A

bloody

136
Q

Carolina was named after ______ __, and was formally created in 1670.

A

Charles II

137
Q

Carolina flourished by developing _____ ________ ___ with the West Indies, due to the port of Charleston.

A

close economic ties

138
Q

Many original Carolina settlers had come from _______ and brought in the strict “Slave Codes” for ruling slaves

A

Barbados

139
Q

Indians as slaves in Carolina were protested, but to no avail. Slaves were sent to the ___ _____ to work, as well as New England.

A

West Indies

140
Q

emerged as the principle crop in Carolina

A

rice

141
Q

______ slaves were hired to work on rice plantations, due to their resistance to malaria and just as importantly, their familiarity with rice.

A

African

142
Q

Despite _____ with Spanish and Indians, Carolina proved to be too strong to be wiped out.

A

violence

143
Q

Many newcomers to Carolina were “_______,” people who owned no land, usually down from Virginia.

A

squatters

144
Q

North Carolinians developed a strong resistance to _____, due to geographic isolation from neighbors.

A

authority

145
Q

Two “_______” of Carolinians developed: (a) aristocratic and wealthier down south around Charleston and rice & indigo plantations, and (b) strong-willed and independent-minded up north on small tobacco farms

A

flavors

146
Q

In ___, North and South Carolina were officially separated.

A

1712

147
Q

In 1711, when Tuscarora Indians attacked North Carolina, the Carolinians responded by crushing the opposition, selling hundreds to slavery and leaving the rest to wander north, eventually becoming the ____ Nation of the Iroquois.

A

sixth

148
Q

______ was intended to be a buffer between the British colonies and the hostile Spanish settlements in Florida (Spanish, Indians, runaway slaves) and the enemy French in Louisiana.

A

Georgia

149
Q

It was founded last, in 1733, by a high-minded group of ________, mainly James Oglethorpe.

A

philanthropists

150
Q

Named after King George II (Georgia), it was also meant to be a second chance site for

A

wretched souls in debt.

151
Q

the ablest of the founders and a dynamic soldier-statesman, repelled Spanish attacks. He saved “the Charity Colony” by his energetic leadership and by using his own fortune to help with the colony.

A

James Oglethorpe

152
Q

All Christians, except ______, enjoyed religious toleration, and many missionaries came to try to convert the Indians.

A

Catholics

153
Q

John Wesley was one of them, and he later returned to England and founded ________.

A

Methodism

154
Q

_____ grew very slowly.

A

Georgia

155
Q

______ was found in all the plantation colonies.

A

Slavery

156
Q

The growth of cities was often stunted by ______

A

forests

157
Q

The establishment of ______ and _______ was difficult due to people being spread out

A

schools and churches

158
Q

In the South, the crops were _____ and _____, and some indigo in the tidewater region of SC.

A

tobacco and rice

159
Q

All the _______ colonies permitted some religious toleration

A

plantation

160
Q

________ with Native Americans were often

A

confrontations

161
Q

In what is now ____ ____ _______, the Iroquois League (AKA the Iroquois Confederation) was once a great power.

A

New York State

162
Q

They were made up of the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas.

A

The Iroquois Confederation

163
Q

They vied with neighboring ______ and later French, English, and Dutch for supremacy.

A

Indians

164
Q

The _________ was the building block of Iroquois society. Only 25 feet wide, but over 200 feet long, these were typically occupied by a few blood-related families (on the mother’s side).

A

longhouse

165
Q

The ______ were middlemen with European traders

A

Mohawks

166
Q

The ________ were fur suppliers.

A

sencas

167
Q

The Five Nations of the Iroquois’ _____, the neighboring Hurons, Eries, and Petuns, were vanquished.

A

rivals

168
Q

When the American Revolution broke out, the question of with whom to side was split. Most sided with the _____, but not all.

A

British

169
Q

Afterwards, the Iroquois were forced to _______, which proved to be unbearable to these proud people.

A

reservations

170
Q

An Iroquois named ________ ________ arose to warn his tribe’s people to mend their ways. His teachings live today in the form of the longhouse religion.

A

Handsome Lake