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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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1296 went to China

Came back with spices, silks, fragrances, and gold.

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Marco Polo

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2
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Headed to China for wealth
Got lost didn’t make it to China ended up in India
Came back with ship full of spices
Spices almost as valuable as gold it’s self
Spices were 60 time cost of original expedition

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Vasco De Gama

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3
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First recorded trip to the new world
Sailed for Spain
Knew the world was round
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle funded his voyage
Ships: Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Started voyage to find short cut to Asia
October 12, 1492 Columbus landed in the Bahamas
Thought he discovered the shorter route tout he was in India

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Christopher Columbus

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4
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Map maker

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Amerigo Vespucci

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5
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Sail to China around the tip of South America
Shorter route
Wanted to get the spice islands
Discovered Strait of Magellan
Named Pacific Ocean
Called South America “Tierra de Fuego” which means the land of fire
Killed in the Philippines

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Ferdinand Magellan

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6
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Decided to sail to Africa to get to China to find shorter route
Sailed in 1488
Named the cape of good hope

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Bartholomeu Dias

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7
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Objective is to find gold
Aztecs thought he was a returned god
god was Quetzacoatl
used god like image to kill many Aztecs
Insight war to wipe each other out
Convinces all the warriors of the various tribes to come to a meeting 
Killed almost all the warriors including Montezuma
First great Conquistador
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Hernando Cortes

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8
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Slave of enemy tribe given to Cortes
Translated for him and told him where the Aztec hiding gold and supplies
Name means trader

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La Malinche

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9
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Sailed to south America and in countered the Incas
1532 goes to Peru to find silver
Once there find ancient ruler Atahualpa
Captures ruler Atahulpa and tells people if they fill a whole room with gold he will let him go
Incas filled room with gold
Killed Atahulpa anyways

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Francisco Pizarro

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10
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Started expedition in 1539
Went to search for 7 cities of gold: Cibola
First one to say these cities existed
Traveled all through Arizona, New Mexico, and little bit Kansas
Took 200 people wit him
First Europeanto discover the grand canyon
The first person to discover the giant heards of buffalo- bison

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Francisco Coronado

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Search of 7 cities of gold
Takes 600 people with him
Traveled mostly trough Flordia and Arkansas
Ruthless to natives with torcher

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Hernando De Soto

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12
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Completely controlled by the king

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Royal colony

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13
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King appoints governor

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Proprietary colony

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14
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Given a grant by a trade company

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Charter colony

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15
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They are working off passage to new world
Have to work for master for 4-7 years
Contract with master to work for 4-7 years

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Indentured servants

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16
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Settled at Roanoke Island

Established by governor: John White

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The Lost Colony

17
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Meet local Indian chief Powhatan
John Smith captained the ship
King James 1
Colonist faced malaria
Between 1609-1610 faced a terrible winter
Over 50% died from starvation or exposer
Describe 2 years the starving time
1612 discover crop that grows well: tabacco
Opens market for colonist
Charles 1 began taxing property taxes very heavily
Colonist were sensitive of faith and taxes

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Jamestown Colony

18
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The economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring that prosperity and military security of the state

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Mercantilism

19
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The first assembly of elected representatives of English colonist in North America

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House of Burgesses

20
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the separatists, also known as saints, fleeing religious persecution. They traveled aboard the mayflower in 1620. Was signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ships 101 passengers

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Mayflower Compact

21
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Said that church and state must be separate

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Roger Williams

22
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Well known for saying Massachusetts Bay colony should be known as the “city upon a hill”
Had very little tolerance for other religion

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John Winthrop

23
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Said salvation came from faith alone and not works

Leaders called this heresy

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Anne Hutchinson

24
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Spoke English
Was kidnapped by some English explores
Going to be sent back to England to be a slave
Kept him to work on ships to be a slave
Escaped when they got to new world
Helped plant colonist first crop
Only reason colonist survived they’re first winter

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Squanto

25
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1620
Separatists from Holland
1st official group we call pilgrims
Pilgrims are anyone that makes a journey to settle somewhere
Headed for Virginia to add the the Jamestown settlement
Blown off coarse from a storm

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Plymouth Colony

26
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1629
Congregationalists 
City Upon a Hill 
Had very little tolerance for other religion
Started own colony of Rhode Island
Became occiated with the Quakers
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

27
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1692-1693
2 girls claimed they were being afflicted by witches
Ended up accusing 20 people being witches
20 end up being executed
Innocent until proven guilty

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Salem Witch Trials

28
Q 
Marriage
1700s colonist had large birth rates
The first census was in 1790
Over half of all Americans were under the age of 16
25% death rate at birth
1 out of every 4 children died at birth
25% died before the age of 15
Disease 
1735-1737
Diphtheria: high fever and weak
Average women lived to the age of 50
Average man lived to the age of 40 
By no sanitation system and no waste program 
Housing
Materials to build house depended on we're they we're at
Brick was really common
Provide basic skills to read the bible 
People still valued education
Harvard was created in 1636: seminary 
1630s more men graduated from college than more men today 
Today only 25% of high school graduates finish college
1698 the first public library was created
Built in Charlestown, South Carolina
Fun
Barn raisings
Corn husking competitions
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Colonial Life

29
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Scattering of African Americans around the world

West Indies for sugar fields

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African Dispora

30
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Spanish invovlement of new world 
One of the greatest Indian revolts
One of the only successful revolt
Took place in New Mexico
Revolted against the most was conversion to Catholicism
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Pueblo Revolt of 1680

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