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Ush final (unit 1) Flashcards

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Marco polo

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  • 1296 went to china
  • fragrances. Spices. Gold. Silks
  • diary published into “the travels of marco polo”
  • stories of unlimited gold
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Vasco de gama

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  • Set sail 1498
  • went to china but landed in India
  • returned with ship full of spices
  • Worth almost as much as gold
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Christopher Columbus

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  1. 1492 first recorded trip to the new world
  2. Italian born but sailed for Spain
  3. King Ferdinand and green Isabelle
    Financed trip
    Columbus was promised:
    ship
    10% of what he brings back
    governed ship over new land
    A title “admiral of the ocean sea”
  4. 3 ships: niño, pinta, Santa maria
    Started looking for new rout to Asia
  5. October 12, 1492 he landed in the Bahamas
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Ferdinand magellan

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Ferdinand Magellan
Wanted to take Shorter rout to china by tip of south America
1. “the spice islands”
2. Discovered straight of Magellan and named the pacific ocean
3. Eventually landed in the Philippines

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Bartholomeu dias

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  1. Africa
    1488 tried to sail to Africa
  2. Good hope
    Named tip of Africa good hope
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Hernando Cortes

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  1. 1519 givven orders to explores mexican mainland
    Mission : find gold
  2. Aztecs and their ruler was Montezuma
  3. Quetzalcoatl
    Thought he was a returned god
    He tricked the Aztecs
    Killed them
    Tried to insight war
    Convinces warriors of all tribes to come to a meeting
    Opens fire and kills most including montezuma
  4. First great conquistador
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La Malinche

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La Malinche 
Slave from enemy tribe. 
Given to Cortes
Translated for cortez 
Told him where the Aztecs hid gold. Food. And supplies. 
Name means "traitor"
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Francisco Pizarro

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  1. went to s. America and encounter the inca
    Went in 1532
    Discovers Inca ruler. Captures him. And if the incas filled a room with gold he would let the ruler go
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Francisco Coronado

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Started expedition in 1539
1. Mythical seven cities of gold “cibola”
Took 200 people
Traveled through arizone and new Mexico. And Kansas
Discovered grand canyon (first European)
2. First person to discover giant heard of buffalo in America
3. Wiped out people’s food supplies.
Tortured the people
3. Told Coronado cities of gold was real and was called “quivira”
Coronado finds out its a lie and executes Turk
4. Returned in 1542 with nothing

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Hernando de soto

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Takes 600 people to find cities of gold
Traveled through Florida and Arkansas
Tortured the natives

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Types of colonies

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  1. Charter - colony given a grant by a trade company
  2. Royal- run by the king
  3. Propriortary- appointed a governor
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Indentured servants

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4-7 years 
50% of all colonists were indentured servants 
*Once they got to the new world they were very difficult to control 
They would run away 
Horrible weather conditions
No woman
Bad food 
Tax from Indians 
Became problem so they thought they needed a labor force 
Increase African slave trade 
visually identify labor force 
Color became issue
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The lost colony

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Roanoke island 
1. John white 
Arrived later then expected 
Unable to plant a crop 
Therefor didnt have enough supplies 
had battles with native Americans 
Sent someone back to England (John white)
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Jamestown colony

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Roanoke island 
1. John white 
Arrived later then expected 
Unable to plant a crop 
Therefor didnt have enough supplies 
had battles with native Americans 
Sent someone back to England (John white)
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Mercantilism

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mercantilism: economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military securiity of the state. It demands a postive balance of trade. it was the cause of frequent European wars

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House of burgesses

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House of Burgesses: first assembly of elected representatives of english colonistst in north america. the house was established by the Virgina Company, who created the body as an effort to enourage english craftsmen to settle in north america. first meeting was july 30, 1619.

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Mayflower compact

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mayflower compact: The first governing document of plymouth colony. it was written by the separatists

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Roger Williams

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Thought the church and the state should be separate 
They banished him 
Started own colony "rhode island" 
Religious Quakers 
Anne hutchinson 
Salvation came by faith alone not works
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John Winthrop

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“city upon a hill” other colonies should follow their example
Did not have Tollerance fair other religions

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Anne Hutchinson

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Salvation came by faith alone not works
She was banished 
Had 15 children 
First went to rhode island 
Ended up in new York 
Her and her family were spattered by Indian tribe 
All were killed except one
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Squanto

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Land in Plymouth Massachusetts
Approached by a native american
When he was 12 or 13 he was captured bybenglish explorers and sent to be a slave. But they kept him to work on ships. Eventually escaped
He was the only Eason the people survived their first winter
Thought then how to plant seeds and crops

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Bacon’s rebellion

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A. Plymouth 1620
Plymouth bay 
Separatists from holland first official group called "pilgrims"
Headed for Virginia 
Add to the James town settlement 
Got blown off course by a bad storm 
Ran out of supplies
Decided to settle in current day massachusetts
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Massachusetts bay colony

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Settled in 1629

Most settlers were Congregationalists

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Salem witch trials

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2 girls
Claim their being afflict by witches
Have histarical fits.
Accuse people of being witches. 19 were eventually executed
If you could swim you were a witch
If you drowned they tried to recessitate you
Being pressed
Men would lie with a board on his chest with boulders till they suffocated
They were banished if confessed to being a witch
pastor spoke out
“It is better that 10 suspected witches should escape the one innocent person die” (innocent until proven guilty)
Girls confessed to having lied.
One was pastors granddaughter
Got the idea from same aged slave from their cultu

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Colonial life

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most colonists were englsh, scottish, irish, or german in the new world
most common method of travel was on a road called the great philadelphia wagon trail( old iriquoise indian trail)
it traveled all the way from virgina to georgia.
marriage
in the 1700s colonists were having lots of babies
in 1700 there were 250,000 people living in the colonies
by 1774 there were 2.5 million people in the colonies
very first census was in 1790- over half of all americans were under 16
most colonial women married around the age of 20
in england there were more women then men
in america it was the exact opposite, men outnumbered the women 2 to 1
25% deathrate at birth
1 out of everry 4 children died at birth
another 25% died before 15
disease
from 1735 to 1737 there was diphtheria epidemic( hard to breathe, high fever, hard to breathe, diahria)
thousands of people under the age of 20 died from this
average women lived to be about 50
average man lived to be 40
diphtheria epidemic was created by large cities because they had no sanitation system and no waste program
houses
material colonists used to build homes depended on where they lived
brick was very common
sedder or oak
dirt
cow or buffalo dung
education
to provide someone with the most basic skills so they could read the bible
1636 harvard was created( semenary) - people still belived in educatin
in the 1630s more men graduated from college then people do today
today only 25% of highschool graduates will finish college
in 1698 first public library in america was invented
built in charleston, south carolina
fun
they had barn rasings( they would raise up the side of barn)
corn husking competitions
quilting
foot races
wresteling matches
no hold bar wrestling
horse racing
roster fights
in 1700s clubs started to form (smoking club, laughing club, beef steak club, monday nightclub(only men), friday night club(women only) ).

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African diaspora

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scattering of African people throughout the world)
West indies 
Processing sugar (crash crop) 
Labor intensive 
Looked for free labor supply
Africa
Could fight off disease
Could be identified by color
Had different tribal languages 
1640-1690 
250,000 were enslaved to work in the sugar industry in the west indies 
10,000 (native Americans)
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Pueblo revolt 1680

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Greatest Indian revolt in history (only successful revolt)
Modern day new Mexico
Pueblo Indians 
We're advanced 
Built structures up to 5 buildings tall
Made crops 
Didn't move with the seasons

BCHS ASL II Per 4 (9 decks)

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