Unit 1 & 2 Flashcards
Women’s rights
Amerindian woen held a stronger position than European
Controlled by Father
Cahokia
The Most important large Mississippian town
Near modern day St Louis
Religion
Dreams and rights of passage
Dreams are important spiritual exercise
Questing - a rite of passage for young males
Believed in ghost and witchcraft
Shared traits of most native Americans
Bow and arrow
Ceramic pottery
Burial grounds
Preference for small groups
Rice
Taught to Europeans by Africans
Ironic bc Enabled Europeans to feed lg numbers if enslaved Africans
West Africa
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
John Calvin
1536 writes book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Believed in predestination
God gas planned everything out, including your final destination
Philip II
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
Elizabeth I
1533-1603 "Virgin queen" Protestant Never married bc it would weaken her Encouraged English pirates "sea dogs" to attack Spanish galleons
The invincible Armada 1588
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
Caravel
Better ships
Had 3 poles
prince Henry
Jamestown 1607
1st permanent English settlement
1619 Virginia
The first Africans brought to Jamestown
House of Burgesses met for the 1st time
A ship filled with marriageable woman arrived - becomes home
Indentured Servants
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
John Rolfe
Pocahontas husband
Developed hybrid tobacco plant
Bacons rebellion
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
Eliza Lucas
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
James Oglethorpe
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
Puritans
Largely middle class and educated Believed Anglican Church should be cleanses or purified by removing all it's Catholic-like practices
Separatists
Went one step further than Puritans
ANGLICAN CHURCH too corrupt and must be abolished
Plymouth Colony
Separatist who left England and settled at Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
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
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
Massachusetts bay colony
Puritans leader to MBC
Coined term the city upon hill
John Winthrop
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
City upon a hill
Best known intolerance
One of last and certainly biggest
Out in woods with demons and animals
Salem witch craft trials
