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Unit 1 & 2 Flashcards

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Women’s rights

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Amerindian woen held a stronger position than European

Controlled by Father

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Cahokia

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The Most important large Mississippian town

Near modern day St Louis

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Religion

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Dreams and rights of passage
Dreams are important spiritual exercise
Questing - a rite of passage for young males
Believed in ghost and witchcraft

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Shared traits of most native Americans

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Bow and arrow
Ceramic pottery
Burial grounds
Preference for small groups

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Rice

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Taught to Europeans by Africans

Ironic bc Enabled Europeans to feed lg numbers if enslaved Africans

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West Africa

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Official religion Islam 
Practiced ancestor worship
Rich art made from ivory and iron
Most art was religious nature
Rich folklore 
Most famous trickster Anansi the spider
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John Calvin

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1536 writes book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Believed in predestination
God gas planned everything out, including your final destination

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Philip II

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Late sixteenth century Spanish monarch king
Most powerful ruler in world
Badly mismanaged Spain’s fortune
Wasting it by paying off high interest loans to fight wars
First wife died during childbearing
Married catholic queen of England, Mary 1554

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Elizabeth I

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1533-1603
"Virgin queen"
Protestant
Never married bc it would weaken her
Encouraged English pirates "sea dogs" to attack Spanish galleons
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The invincible Armada 1588

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1588
Marks beginning of end of Spanish power
130-150 ships to conquer England and est a Catholic Regime
They were defeated by England

the main powers England , France, Dutch to compete for empire in the West

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Caravel

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Better ships
Had 3 poles
prince Henry

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Jamestown 1607

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1st permanent English settlement

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1619 Virginia

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The first Africans brought to Jamestown
House of Burgesses met for the 1st time
A ship filled with marriageable woman arrived - becomes home

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Indentured Servants

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Works for 2-7 yrs under contract in exchange for a trip to America.
End of the time servant could receive land, equip, etc
Not a slave

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John Rolfe

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Pocahontas husband

Developed hybrid tobacco plant

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Bacons rebellion

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Bacon and around 1,000 followers went on a rampage threatening the govt and killing all Indians they came across
Captured and burned Jamestown 
Forcing Berkeley to flee
Bacon dies of the the Bloody flux
Nathaniel bacon 
Leader of  Piedmont  settlement
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Eliza Lucas

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17 yr old girls who was left in chg of families S.C. Plantation while dad attending to their plantations in the Caribbean
Experimented with Indigo
Purple dye
Marries Pinckney and has 2 boys that turn out to be important

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James Oglethorpe

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In 1729 an ex soldier and current Parliament member was placed in chg of a committee looking into the terrible problem of prison overcrowding
Known as the Philanthropist - give to charity
Given a job to rehabilitate the debtors in prison
Est. Georgia in 1733
Treated Indians fairly
Felt lawyers hide the truth with Latin phases and obscure motions

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Puritans

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Largely middle class and educated 
Believed Anglican Church should be cleanses or purified by removing all it's Catholic-like practices
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Separatists

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Went one step further than Puritans

ANGLICAN CHURCH too corrupt and must be abolished

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Plymouth Colony

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Separatist who left England and settled at Plymouth

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Mayflower Compact

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Nov 11, 1620
A simple document mostly dedicated to flatter the King
Founded the principle of American tradition of government resting upon the consent of the governed , the people
Individuals give up some of their personal freedom for common good of group

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In 1691 Absorbed Plymouth colony
Puritans leader John Winthrop
Shining city upon a hill
1000 puritans and 17 ships 
Controlled by Massachusetts bay co
Congregational church
Bicameral legislature 2 houses
Upper house - governor
Lower house -elected town reps
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Massachusetts bay colony

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Puritans leader to MBC

Coined term the city upon hill

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John Winthrop

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John Winthrop coined this term
Concept was that since the puritans knew how God wanted a Christian community they would est a perfect society
Still used today but means positive example for others

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City upon a hill

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Best known intolerance
One of last and certainly biggest
Out in woods with demons and animals

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Salem witch craft trials

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