Unit 1 test Flashcards
Algonquians
members of a North American Indian people living in Canada along the Ottawa River and its tributaries and westward to the north of Lake Superior.
Albany Plan of Union
A failed 1754 proposal by the seven northern colonies in anticipation of the French and Indian, urging the unification of the colonies under one crown -appointed president
Anglican Church
The established state church of England, was formed by Henry VIII after the pope refused to annul his marriage to Cathrine of Aragon
Anglicization
the act of making something or someone English in either character or form
Anne Hutchinson
challenged male authority—and, indirectly, acceptable gender roles—by preaching to both women and men and by questioning Puritan teachings about salvation.
Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle Trade
The systematic importation of African slaves from their native continent across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, largely fueled by rising demand for sugar, rice, coffee, and tobacco
Aztec Empire (Tenochtitlan)
found in northern Mexico, mesoamerican people conquered by hernado cortez.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Unsuccessful 1676 revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkeley’s administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkeley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands.
Black Legend
The idea that the Spanish New World was more oppressive toward Indians than European empires
Borderlands
A place between or near recognized borders where no group of people has complete political control or cultural domincance.
Cahokia
An Indian center for trade in 1200 A.D. that was once located near present-day St. Louis.
Capitalism
A system of economic production based on the private ownership of property and the contractual exchange for profit of goods, labor, ad money.
Chesapeake
Settlements surrounding Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland.
Columbian Exchange
The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus’s voyages in 1492
Creoles
persons born in the New World of European ancestry
Encomienda System
A system used by Spaniards in which Indians were given to colonists to use for labor.
English Bill of Rights
A series of laws enacted in 1689 that inscribed the rights of Englishmen into law and enumerated parliamentary powers such as taxation
European Enlightenment
Revolution in thought in the 18th century that emphasized reason and science over the authority of traditional religion
First Great Awakening
The fervent religious revival movement in the 1720s through the 1740s was spread throughout the colonies by ministers like New England Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and rival George Whitefield.
French and Indian War
The last and most important colonial war was fought between England and France for control of North America east of the Mississippi river.
Glorious Revolution
A coup in 1688 engineered by a small group of aristocrats led to William of Orange taking the British throne in place of James II
Great Basin/Great Plains
a desert region of the Western United States that stretches from the high desert regions between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains.
Great League of Peace
An alliance of the Iroquis tribes, originally formed sometime between 1450 and 1600, used their combined strength to pressure Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and to wage war across eastern North America.
Halfway Covenant
A 1662 religious compromise that allowed baptism and partial church membership to colonial New Englanders whose parents were not among the Puritin elect
