Unit 1: 1491 - 1607 Flashcards
What is reciprocity?
The mutual bestowing of gifts and favors
Who were the Paleo-Indians?
The earliest Americans
Nomadic
What are archaic people?
Native Americans who flourished in new environments are the end of the Ice Age
Where is Mesoamerica?
Central and southern Mexico
Central America
What are chiefdoms?
A few elite dominate thousands of residents in tightly clustered cities
What is Tethucan?
Capital of the largest early state
100,000 people at height
Where did the Maya live?
Mexico
Honduras
What are the Maya famous for?
Calendar
Numbers
Writing
What did the Aztec sacrifice?
Humans
Where did the Inca live?
Andes mountains
What made Inca farming successful?
Terraced farming
Irrigation
Wide range of crops
What are the Anasazi famous for?
Disappearing
When and were was Poverty Point?
Lower Mississippi River
1200 BC
What is the headright system?
Every Virginian who pays their own way gets 50 acres
Every person you lay for gets you 50 more
Indentured Servants are…..
A person who has a 5-7 year contract to work to pay for their passage to Virginia
Primary reasons for immigration?
Early settlers in Virginia
Many were in debt in Europe
Protestant and Catholic conflicts
Land
Why were freed indentured servants unhappy?
- Land was in back county
- Native American threat
- No females
What happened in the house of Burgesses in 1670 that made indentured servants mad?
They disenfranchised landless colonials
Meaning you needed land to vote
Who was Governor William Berkley?
The governor of Jamestown
Aristocrat
Monopolized fur trade (frontiersmen needed it, denied)
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
Wealthy Virginan
Non-Indentured Servant
Kept out of Berkley’s inner circle
What did Bacon’s rebellion do to Native Americans?
Killed them all
Where did William Berkley go during the rebellion?
He fled
Why did Bacon’s rebellion fail?
Bacon died of Dysentery
What were the results of Bacon’s Rebellion?
- Exposed resentment
- Helped to end indentured servants
- Upperclassmen look for other workers -> SLAVES
