Summer Reading Flashcards
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17) What was the relationship between the native populations and the bay colony?
- Indian populations had been decimated before pilgrims arrived
- Pequot Wars –> 4 decades of uneasy peace
- Metacom’s war (Metacom fights against English, slowing them but not stopping them)
14) Who were the Puritans and separists/pilgrims?
- Protestants went against Catholic church and customs
- Puritans were more intense protestants wanted decatholocization
- separatists broke away from C of E
25) List and explain the similarities + differences between the South and the North
- less diseases in North, water was cleaner and air was colder
- NE families very large for religious reasons
- women had more land and rights in the south bc families were fragile
- small towns (N) vs plantations (S)
12) What was an indentured servant?
People who “rented” themselves out as workers for 4-7 years and were promised land at the end of their labor.
34) Describe the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party
- Bostonians protest townshend acts, get into fight and get shot
- used as propaganda
- bostonians protest BEIC coming into port by dumping tea into harbor
35) Who were the patriots and who were the loyalists?
Patriots: revolutionaries, younger
Loyalists: support crown, older
31) What were the causes and effects of the seven years war?
- fight over Ohio River Valley between British and French (French and Indian War)
- led to the 7 years war which was fought all over the world, France wasted troops in Germany so it was easy to defeat in America
- inspired Americans to believe in prowess, shattered image of British invincibility
- colonists wanted rights without responsibilities of Englishmen
- relationship with NA suffers
- British forbid American exports
3) What were the European reasons for exploration of the New World?
- more people to trade with (Crusades had failed and they saw Asian commodities, wanted them)
- didn’t want to sail south of West Africa bc wind (Portuguese figure out how to avoid this)
- Spain unifies and wants to beat Portugal but they have the southern route to Asia –> look West and sail West
- want more products
9) Why and how did the European colonies differ in North America?
- France: late colonization due to domestic issues, alright relationship with Natives; main export was beaver pelts, so they were pretty nomadic
- Spanish: first there, very wealthy, strongest hold, cruel to Natives
- England: late to colonization (Sp allies, didn’t need colonies), went in with wariness towards others bc of Irish issues, thirst for adventure)
41) Describe the peace treaty that gave the American colonies independence
Treaty of Paris, Britain formally recognizes USA as a country
10) Describe the early settlement at Jamestown.
- 1606, Virginia company sails West to find gold
- hard start bc of disease, native hostility, and malnutrition as most of them were gentlemen and did not want to hunt
- John Smith got them together and made them work (Pocahontas)
- Indian-English wars wipe Powhaton out of VA
13) Describe plantation life for both the rich owners and the enslaved people.
- tobacco = poor mans crop; sugar = rich mans crop
- only rich whites owned land
- plantations are far and few between
- religious toleration for whites
- Africans treated horribly
2) what was NA life like before contact?
- diverse, people lived based on their natural resources around them, so each tribe lived differently
- cities (South America), towns, villages (north america)
- 3 sister farming in central and south America (corn, beans, squash)
- altered natural world (burned fields, made terraces), also revered it
40) what battle ended the war?
Battle of Yorktown
38) Who wrote and what did the Declaration of Independence state?
- Thomas Jefferson wrote DoI to explain why they wanted independence
33) List and explain the many taxes that the British government put on the colonies
- Navigation laws
- sugar act
- quartering act
- stamp act
- declatory act (B has control)
- townshend acts (tax on paper, paint, tea
- intolerable acts (remove MA rights)