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The Colonial Period Flashcards

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Beringa

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An ancient land bridge linking Asia and N. America

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Black Death

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2 strains of Bulbonic Plague that swept Western Europe in 14th century, killed almost half of the population

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Chasquis

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Incan relay runners used to send messages over great distances

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Chattel slavery

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A system of servitude where people are bought and sold as property

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China apas

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Floating Aztec gardens that allowed for irrigation

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Crusades

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A series of military expeditions made by Christian Europeans to recover the holy lands in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries

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Feudal society

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A social arrangement in which serfs and knights provided labor and military service to noble lords, receiving protection and land use in return

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Inquisition

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A campaign by the Catholic Church to root out heresy, especially among converted Jews and Muslims

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Koran

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The sacred book of Islam, written by the prophet Muhammad in the 17th century

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Matriarchy

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A society in which women have political power

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Mita

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The Incan labor tax, each family donates time and labor to communal projects

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Polygyny

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The practice of taking more than one wife

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Quipu

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An ancient Incan device for recording info, has various colored threads knitted in different ways

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Reconquista

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Spain’s nearly 800 year war on Islam, ended in 1492

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Serf

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A peasant tied to the land and it’s lord

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Black Legend

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Spain’s reputation as bloodthirsty conquistadors

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Calvanism

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A branch of Protestantism started by John Calvin emphasizing predestination

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Colombian exchange

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The movement of plants, animals and diseases across the Atlantic due to European exploitation of the Americas

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Commodification

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The transformation of something into a commodity of monetary value

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Encomienda

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Legal rights to native labor as granted by the Spanish crown

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Hispanolia

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Island in the Caribbean, present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where Columbus first landed and established a Spanish colony

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Indulgences

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Documents for sinners to purchase that absolved them of sin

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Joint stock company

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A business entity in which investors provide the capital and assume the risk in order to reap significant benefits

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Mercantilism

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Protectionist economic principle that nations should control trade over their colonies to ensure a favorable balance of trade

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Mourning wars

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Raids or wars by tribes in eastern North America to replace members lost by smallpox and other disease

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Pilgrims

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Separatists, led by William Bradford, who established the first English settlement in New England

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Privateers

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Sea captains to which Britain gave permission to raid Spanish ships at will

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Probanza de merito

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Proof of merit: a letter written by an explorer to the Spanish crown to gain royal patronage

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Protestant reformation

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The schism in Catholicism that began with Martin Luther and John Calvin in the early 16th century

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Puritans

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A group of religious reformers in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to “purify“ the Church of England by cutting out things associated with the Catholic Church

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Roanoke

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The 1st English colony in Virginia, which mysteriously disappeared sometime between 1587 and 1590

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Separatists

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A faction of puritans who wanted complete separation from the Church of England

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Smallpox

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A disease that the English unknowingly brought to the new world killing millions of Indians who had no immunity to the disease

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Sugarcane

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One of the primary crops of the Americas, which required a lot of labor to cultivate

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Headright system

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a system in which parcels of land were granted to settlers who could pay their own way to Virginia

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Indenture

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A labor contract that promised young men, and sometimes women, money and land after they worked for a certain number of years

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Jesuits

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Members of the society of Jesus, an elite catholic religious order founded in the 1540s to spread Catholicism and to combat Protestantism

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Maroon communities

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Groups or runaway slaves who resisted recapture and lived off the land

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Middle passage

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Transatlantic crossing of slave ships from African coast to the new world

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Musket

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A light long barreled European gun

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Patroonships

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Large tracts of land and governing rights granted by the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage colonization

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Repartimiento

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A Spanish colonial system requiring Indian towns to supply workers for the colonizers

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Timicua

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The native people of Florida, whom the Spanish displaced with the founding of St. Augustine, the 1st spanish settlement in the new world

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Wampum

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Shell beads used in ceremonies and as jewelry and currency

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Deism

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An enlightenment era belief in a supreme being who does not intervene for mankind

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Dominion of new England

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King James II’s consolidated New England colony from new Hagen to Massachusetts later inc New Jersey and New York

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English interregnum

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The period between 1649 and 1660 when England had no king

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Enlightenment

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An 18th century intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized reason and science over superstition, religion and tradition

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1st Great Awakening

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An 18th century Protestant revival that emphasized individual faith or church doctrine and the close study of scripture

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Freemasons

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An early 18th century fraternity that advocated Enlightenment principles of inquiry and tolerance

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French and Indian War

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The last 18th century imperial struggle between Great British and France, leading to decisive British win, lasted between 1754 to 1763, a.k.a The The 7 Year War

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Glorious Revolution

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The overthrow of James II in 1688

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Navigation Acts

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A series of English mercantilist laws enacted between 1651 and 1696 in order to control trade with the colonies

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Nonconformists

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Protestants who did not conform to the practices or doctrines of the Church of England

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Proprietary colonies

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Colonies granted by the king to an individual, family or group

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restoration colonies

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Colonies King Charles II supported or established during the restoration (the Carolinas, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania)

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Salutary neglect

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The laxness with which the English crown enforced the navigation acts in the 18th century

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Boston massacre

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Confrontation between bostontonians and British soldiers on March 5, 1770. 5 people died including Crispus Attacus, 1st official casualty in war for independence

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Coercive Acts

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4 Acts (Administration of Justice Act, Mass. Gov’t Act, Port Bill, Quartering Act) that Lord North passes for destroying the tea and refusing to pay for the damages

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Committees of Correspondence

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Colonial extralegal shadow gov’ts that met to discuss plans of resistance against british

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Daughters of liberty

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Well-born British colonial women who led non-importation movement against British goods

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Direct tax

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A tax that consumers pay directly , rather than through merchants higher prices

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Indirect tax

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Tax imposed on business, not consumers

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Intolerable acts

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The name American patriots gave the coherence acts and the Quebec Act

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Loyalists

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Colonists in America loyal to great Britain

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Massachusetts circular

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Letter by son of liberty Samuel Adams that laid out he unconstitutionality of taxation without representation and encouraged the other colonies to boycott British goods

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No taxation without representation

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The principle, 1st articulated in the Virginia Stamp Act resolutions that the colonies need to be represented in parliament if they were to be taxed

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Non-importation movement

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A widespread colonial boycott of British goods

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Proclamation line

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A line along the Appalachian Mountains, imposed by the Proclamation of 1763, west of which British colonists could not settle

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Sons of liberty

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Artisans, shopkeepers and small time merchants who opposed the Stamp Act and considered themselves British Patriots

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Suffolk Resolves

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a Mass. plan of resistance to the Intolerable Acts that formed the basis of the eventual plan adopted by the 1s6 Continental Congress for resisting the British, inc the arming of militias and the adoption of a widespread non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption agreement

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vice-admiralty courts

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British royal courts w/o juries that settled disputes occurring at sea

History of the U.S 1 CLEP (1 decks)

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