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| sioux,hopewell,adena,mississippian,aztecs,inca |
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| those are different tribes of native Americans who traveled through North America. |
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| the mayflower compact is a document specified that while the colonist were subjects of King James 1 they now formed a civil body politic that would pass and obey laws for the general good of the colony. |
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| is the age of reason. it lasted from the mid 1600's to the late 1700's and it differed greatly from the great awakening in the thrust of its ideas and the people it effected. |
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| the first wave of puritans in the great migration settled in Boston. Although many died during the first difficult years, new England's bracing climate was healthier overall than Virginia's. |
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| until the early 1500's virtually all Christians in western Europe belonged to the roman catholic church which was headquarters in rome and headed by the pope. |
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| puritans were followers of the protestant reformer john Calvin, himself a follower of martin Luther, the German monk who started the reformation. |
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| northern, middle, southern colonies |
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| between 1700 and 1763 English colonial settlements filled out in a long unbroken line from Maine to the new colony of Georgia. |
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| Mercantilism was the theory of trade espoused by the major European powers from roughly 1500 to 1800. It advocated that a nation should export more than it imported and accumulate bullion (especially gold) to make up the difference. The exportation of finished goods was favored over extractive industries like farming. |
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| The Great Awakening was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. |
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| During the 1670s, the administration of veteran Virginia governor Sir William Berkeley became unpopular with small farmers and frontiersmen because of the following higher taxes, low tobacco prices and many more. |
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