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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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Reasons Europe Moves Toward Exploration

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Improvements in Technology, Religious Conflict, Expanding Trade, Developing NationStates

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Discovering North and South America

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Land Bridge-Native Population; Vikings; Christopher Columbus

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Cultures in North America

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Native Americans lived mostly in semi-permanent settlements in small populations; men:hunted, fought, built; women: gathered, food, children

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Great Plains Tribes

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Nomadic Tribes who hunted Buffalo

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Pueblos

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complex society that built multi-story dwellings

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Iroquois

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Iroquois Confederation or League of Confederation: political confederation of tribes to protect against other tribes and Europe. Located in Northern Part of N. America. Have to deal with early settlers

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Aztecs

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Complex society in central Mexico

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Incas

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Complex society in Peru

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Columbus

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1492; Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored him; came in early fall to the Bahamas, thought it was India

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Columbian Exchange

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exchange of new goods between Europe and Natives: crops, disease, spices, slaves

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Treaty of Tordesilias

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Spain and Portugal initiate exploration; both are Catholic and start competing; the Pope divides the New World between these countries; called Line of Demarcation; West of Line-Spain; East of Line-Portugal

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12
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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1513; Crosses Isthmus of Panama to get to Pacific

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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1513; Florida looking for Fountain of Youth

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14
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Ferdinand Magellan

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1520; sailing around the world

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15
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Herman Cortes

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Mexico

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16
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Francisco Pizarro

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1532; Peru

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Hernando de Soto

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1539-1542; Florida and part of the Mississippi River

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18
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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1540-1542; New Mexico-Kansas

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19
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Conquistadors

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Spanish explorers who bring riches to Spain

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20
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Encomienda System

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Spanish gov allowed colonists to enslave natives as long as they converted them

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21
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Asiento System

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Spanish gov gave permission to other countries to sell slaves to Spanish Colonies

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22
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New England Colonies

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Mass,RI, Conn, NH

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Middle Colonies

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NY,NJ,Delaware,Penn and products were grain, livestock, iron and rice

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Southern Colonies

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VA, Maryland, NC, SC, Georgia, products: tobacco,indigo, rice, farm products, furs

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Chesapeake Colonies

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Maryland, Virginia

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26
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Restoration Colonies

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Carolinas, NY, NJ, Penn, Delaware

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27
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Corporate Charter

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given to corporations, businesses, joint-stock

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28
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Royal Charter

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area is still controlled by the crown

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29
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Proprietary Charter

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given to individuals from the king

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30
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Jamestown

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first permanent English colony 1607

31
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Timeline of Jamestown 1

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King James gives charter, 1606 Christopher Newport sails, arrives 4 months later then told to set up

32
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Instructions

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Go 100 miles inland, be on river, be on island, open area, low moist area, they chose a bad area because there was wildlife, bugs, bad land for bathrooms and houses, water doesn’t move and feces could seep into drinking water; lots of English gentlemen who didn’t want to work; will eventually move

33
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Activites

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Build a fort, clear lands, search for gold, no time allotted for searching for resources

34
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1608

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Newport goes back for supplies and John Smith becomes leader

35
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John Smith

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he thou shall not work, shall not eat

36
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Population after 1 spring

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40 left out of 100

37
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later part of 1608

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Newport returns with 70 men and 2 women

38
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1609

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Virginia company expands and sends 2 ships with 800 men and women

39
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the ships

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one had supplies and the other had people

40
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fate of the ships

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supplies gets stuck in bermuda and extra men come

41
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Winter of 1609-1610

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Starving time; people had no food, no supplies, 60/400 survive, cannabalism occurs

42
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1610

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other ship returns and military law is instituted; Thomas West becomes governor

43
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1610-1614

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first Anglo-Powhatan War

44
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1614

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peace with the Powhatan tribe; marriage of teen aged Pocahantes and John Rolfe helped

45
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What will become the major crop of Jamestown

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tobacco, the brown gold

46
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What happened when tobacco supply increased

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price went down

47
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in 1619

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more women will come and develop permanent ties, Dutch bring the 1st shipment of slave to Jamestown; House of Burgesses will be established

48
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1622

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Pocahantas dies which causes peace with the tribe to fall apart

49
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1624

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Jamestown becomes a royal colony

50
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1644-1646

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second anglo-powhatan war

51
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Plymouth Colony

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Separtists or Pilgrims (broke up with Puritans)

52
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Puritans wanted

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to purify the Anglecan Church while Separatists wanted to separate

53
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1620

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suppossed to go to Virginia but end up in Plymouth;

54
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Mayflower Compact

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signed by all passengers, sets up direct democracy

55
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Spring Population

56
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Governor of Plymouth Colony

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William Bradford

57
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John Winthrop wanted to create a city on a hill or a utopia which other cities will model after

58
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March 1630

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about 700 settlers come with a charter from the king; 500 survive until next spring

59
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The Great Migration

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1640; thousands of Puritans will come to Massachusetts Bay Colony

60
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Society within Massachusetts: Gov

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ideas of town meetings and general asembly

61
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Society within Massachusetts: Education

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key because Puritans have to be able to read the bible; Harvard established 1636 which goes with the saying that war was planned in the north, fought in the south, and won by the french. north planned b/c they were litterate

62
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Society within Massachusetts: Church

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not religiously tolerant; lack of openess

63
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Reasons for pop decline

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young people started to leave and survival rate was low

64
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Conversion Process

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allowed young people to be converted; supposed to help with pop decline

65
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Halfway Convenant

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allowed everyone to sacrements and communion and children of saints did not have to be converted

66
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1692

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Salem Witch Trials

67
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RI

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Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson; separation of church and state; freedom of religion

68
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Conn

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Thomas Hooke; Fundamental Orders of Conneticut: first written constiution in 1639

69
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Maryland

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Lord Baltimore; mostly Catholic; Maryland Toleration Act- allowed for Freedom of Religion for only Christians

70
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Carolinas

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8 Lords Proprietors 1663; Restoration Colony; split in 1729; headright system- get 50 acres of land for paying for an indentured servant or buying stock in a join-stock compant

71
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New York

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first settled by the Dutch; lost land in 1664 during Anglo-Dutch war

72
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Pennsylvania

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William Penn; Quakers; Quakers were very tolerant of other religions; oppositte of Puritans; Hily Experiment; good treatment of Native Americans; Delaware will eventually break away

73
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Georgia

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last colony to be established in 1732; buffer zone; James Oglethrope was the governor; very strict

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