Unit 1 Test Flashcards
Native American language families
21 different language families, most Indians were bilingual
Signs of Native American history
Plain Indians kept history on hides, Iroquois used condolence canes, all tribes used wampum belt,
Eastern Native Americans
Yay
Native Americans and land
Their lands had natural borders such as rivers or mountains, White men did not understand that when they came
Depopulation of the Native Americans
Most of them are wiped out by diseases brought by the Europeans
Early explorers
Marco Polo, Vasco deGamma, Ferdinand Magellan, Bartholomew Dias, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Coronado, Hernando De Soto.
Types of colonies
charter colony built by a trading Company, proprietary colony run by an English governor, royal colony established by King.
Indentured servants
One who agrees to be a servant to another person if they pay their passage to American. Ended up because servants for many years and was not equal to a free ride
The lost colony
Settled on Roanoke Island 1587 by John White the people didn’t know what to grow and were not used to manual labor, they were desperate John White leaves to get supplies for doesn’t get back for three years when he returns everybody is gone remains a mystery to this day
Jamestown colony
Founded in 1607 by Capt. John smith they settled in a swampy area, many diseases of the worst winter in Virginia history many died, 1612 if we go tobacco grows really well are you able to sell it for anything they wanted were successful
Divine right
The idea that the King is given authority to rule by God to rule and everybody must obey him
Mercantilism
economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than it imports
House of burgesses
First legislative comity of of elected assemble created be th evirginia trading company
Mayflower compact
Series of laws to govern them before they landed
Government gets its consent from governed (people) no the king
Make their own rules
Basis for American constitution
Roger Williams
The church and state should be seperate
Concerned politics would pervert religion
Politions now do what Roger Williams warned would happen
Anne Hutchison
Preached antonosim
Saved by faith alone
She is banished from the colony
Antinominism
Saved by faith alone
Toleration act of 1649
A law that mandated Religious tolerance for trinitarians
The great migration
Was when 50000 settlers went to the new world?
Squanto
He was captured and brought to Europe and learns English escapes and come back to America
Shows pilgrims what to grow
He is the reason the Plymouth bay colony is a success
New English confederation
a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies in support of the church
Bacons rebellion
Nathanael bacon killed Indians with out the governors consent. They punished him and he still kept attacking Indians and they were hunted by the government for doing stuff for the common good
Plymouth colony
Created in 1620 by sepratists from Holland
Series of laws called mayflower compact
Received help from Squanto who help them succeed
Massachusetts bay colony
English settlers (puritans) founded in 1629 Lead by John Withrop (Pastor)
