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Give Me Liberty!- Units one and two
Early Colonization of Americas
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/11/2010

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Christopher Columbus made landfall where:
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West Indian Islands, 1492
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Of the 10 million people who crossed over into the new world, _____ were African slaves
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7.7 million
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wrote Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith
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stated that the discovery of America had both great benefits and misfortunes
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Wealth of Nations- adam smith
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Europeans envisioned America as:
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a religious refuge, a society of equals, a source of power and glory
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Forms of unfree labor in the new world:
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indentured servitude, forced labor by indians, plantation slavery
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capital of the Aztec empire in current day Mexico
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Tenochtitlan
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North American Indians lacked the knowledge of europeans like:
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metal tools, gun powder, scientific navigation knowledge, literacy and wheeled vehicles
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community built around semi circular rounds on a bluff facing the Mississippi River; commercial trading center
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Poverty point
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Pueblo Bonita was built by
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Hopi and Zuni
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stood five stories high and had over 600 rooms, located in Chaco Canyon
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Pueblo Bonita
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Five Iroquois people who formed the Great League of Peace
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Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Onandaga
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Indian Identity centered on:
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Immediate Social Group
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Most indian societies were: patra or matra --lineal
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matrilineal
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Early European descriptions of North American Indians as barbaric centered on:
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religion, land use, and gender relations
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Since Indian freedom was absolute, Europeans saw it as ________
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uncivilized
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followers became free from sin and servants to god-- servitude and freedom both exist
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Christian Liberty
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______ uniformity was thought to be essential to public order
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religious
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when a woman marries she surrendered her legal identity which became covered by her husband
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coverture
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those without regular jobs or otherwise outside the control of their social superiors
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masterless men
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who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around Africa?
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Portugese Navigators
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a ship capable of long distance travel
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caravel
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made legendary trip to Mecca, selling excess gold along the way; sold so much gold he overinflated market; also, ruler of mali
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Mansa Musa
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Portugese trading posts on western Africa were known as:
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factories, the merchants were called factors
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Traditionally, African slaves in Africa were:
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criminals, debtors, and captives of war
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In _______ the first African slaves were taken to islands in the Caribbean
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1502
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reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1487
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B. Dias
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where columbus stopped to refill his three ships
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Canary Islands
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Columbus built a failed settlement on Hispaniola named:
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La Isabella
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established the first center of the spanish empire in America
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Nicolas De Ovando
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realized that america was a whole new continent
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Amerigo Vespuci
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invented the technique of printing with movable type in the 1430's
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Johannes Gutenberg
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first European to see the Pacific Ocean
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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led the first expedition around the world, didn't make it; but his crew did
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Ferdinand Magellan
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first explorer to encounter a major American Civilization
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hernando cortes
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the transatlantic flow of goods and people
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Columbian Exchange
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Spain's center in North America, built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan
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mexico city
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the main body in spain for colonial administration
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Council of the Indies
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large scale farms
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haciendas
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_______ Spaniards came in the three centuries of Spain's colonial rule
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750,000
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In ______, the Spanish government began granting marriages between Spaniards and Indians
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1514
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Juan Diego said he saw a vision of the virgin mary, this vision would come to be known as _________________ and is a symbol of the mixed indian and spanish cultures
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Virgin of Guadaluape
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Pope Alexander the sixth divided the non- Christian world between:
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Spain and Portugal
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In 1517, ______ posted his ninety five theses which accused the church of worldliness and corruption
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Martin Luther
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Martin Luther's ninety five theses led to:
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the rise of new protestant churches independent from rome
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In 1537, Pope paul the third outlawed _____
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Indian enslavement
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Bartolome de Las Casas wrote:
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A very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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this writing denounced spain for causing the death and torture of millions of innocents-- said spain had no ground to denounce real people of land and liberties.. but still said that spain had the right to rule
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A very brief account of the destruction of the indies- Bartolome de las casas
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Bartolome de las casas writing caused Spain to make:
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the new laws which officially said indians should not be enslaved
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the first settlers in america had been granted authority over conquered indian lands with the right to extract forced labor from the native inhabitants
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encomienda system
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replaced encomienda system, residents of indian villages remained legally free but were still required to perform a fixed amount of labor each year
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repartimiento
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image of spain as a brutal and exploitive colonizer
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black legend
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the first european to encounter buffalo
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Francisco Valquez de coronado
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oldest site in the US continuously inhabited by European settlers and their descendents
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st. Augustine
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decimated Acoma, the sky city of the Indians
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Juan de Onate
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the first permanent European settlement in the southwest
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Santa Fe
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the persecution of non-catholics; burned indian idols, masks, and sacred objects
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Inquisition
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lingua franca of the Pueblo Revolt
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Spanish, the indian langages were too diverse
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the most complete victory for native americans over europeans and the only wholesale expulsion of settlers in the history of North America
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Pueblo Revolt
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the first of Spain's rivals to start New World explorations
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France
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sponsored by fur trading, founded quebec in 1608
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Samuel de Champlain
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extended religious toleration to French protestants (Huguenots)- revoced in 1685 causing thousands to flee
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Edict of Nantes
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children of marriages between indian women and french traders and officials
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metis
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claimed new york harbor area for the dutch
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Henry Hudson
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_____ settled colonist on Manhattan Island
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Dutch west india company
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invented by dutch, a way of pooling financial resources and sharing the risk of maritime voyages
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joint stock company
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order jews to leave New Amsterdam (New York) but west india co overruled him
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Governor Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch west india co promised settlers _____ and ________ after six years of labor
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cheap live stock and free land
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shareholders who agreed to transport tenants for agricultural labor
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patroons
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Dutch identified with Native Americans as fellow victims of :
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Spanish opression- Dutch won independence from spain in 16th century
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shared features of Spanish, French and Dutch empires
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brought christianity, new forms of tech and learning, new legal systems and family relations, economic enterprise, savage warfare, and widespread disease
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The New World was:
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an idea, not a place
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period when thousands migrated across the area frozen over the Bering Strait known as Berengia
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Berengia Emigration
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The hopi, zuni, and pueblo together known as:
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Anasazi
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major settlement of the anasazi:
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Chaco Canyon
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The carolina algonquiens lived in:
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Virginia and Norht Carolina
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English encountered these indians at roanoke and Jamestown
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Carolina Algonquiens
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believed it was important to document indian life as it was; most of what they wrote was lost in a shipwreck
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John White and Thomas Harriot
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the carolina algonquiens were not considered nomadic because:
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they had specific hunting and planting grounds
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the carolina algonquiens believed disease occurred when:
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someone disrupted the balance with nature
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wanted to establish a confederacy of united tribes; stopped to a halt due to european influence
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Powatan
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cultural change began:
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the very moment the Indians met Europeans
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provided a socially acceptable way for people to forgive grievances
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Green Corn Festival
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Aztecs were conquered because:
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spanish destroyed those in leadership with the help of the little indian tribes that the aztec had stepped upon
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what made both the aztecs and algonquiens more succeptable to change:
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they were highly oral societies
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idea that your culture is superior to everyone else
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ethnocentrism
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before 1450, the world of Europeans was very small they lived their whole lives in a _____ mile radius
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10
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sited purpose of crusades
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recapture jerusalem from ottomans
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allowed ships to finally sail against prevailing winds
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square rigged sail
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protestant reformation was started by:
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Martin Luther
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changes the way europeans look at themselves; challenges unity of europe
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protestant reformation
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will become the basis of puritanism
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calvinism
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early leader of jamestown
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john smith
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greater rights of the settlers of english america
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power to choose members of elected assemblies, protections of the common law, access to land
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first european since the vikings to encounter the North American continent
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John Calbot
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why england wanted to subdue ireland:
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large catholic population was deemed a threat to the stability of protestant rule in england
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communities placed abroad among an alien population
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plantations
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grants of exclusive rights or privelges
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charters
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stated 23 reasons why Queen Elizabeth the first should support establishing colonies
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a discourse concerning western planning- richard haklyt
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gave spain a claim to north and south american continent
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Christopher Columbus' journey
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decreed by pope- split the non- christian world between the spanish and portugese
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treaty of tordesillas
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first englishman to sail around the world; left members of his crew as young as 12 marooned on islands
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Sir Francis Drake
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England's three motives
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Gold, glory, god-- economic, political, religious
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belief that wealth is finite; prefer exports over imports
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mercantilism
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In ________! spain sent their armada to try and invade england, small group of english ships defeat them and rise to power
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1588
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four stages of population mobility:
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local migration- regional migration- migration to london- migration to colonies
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pull factor for colonies:
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owning land
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first legislation in the U.S.
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Mayflower gov't
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huge percentage of people who came to new world
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protestants
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english brought over ______ which ruined native american crops
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large livestock; cows, pigs, etc.
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before protestants came to new world they tried to go to:
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Netherlands, found it too laid back for their strict rules
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the pilgrims were a sect of
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protestants
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forever change native american life
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guns
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period of time in which diseases and conflict caused many native american tribes to die out up to 90 percent
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The Great Dying
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two reasons why jamestown failed
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built on a swamp carrying malaria diseased mosquitos, dumped garbage in local river causing dissentary
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one of the first states to show religious toleration
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maryland
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puritanism arose in england in the _____ century
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18th
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english conception of liberty vs. native american
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na saw liberty as being one with nature, europeans saw liberty as dominating nature
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viriginia's gold
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tobacco
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puritan conception of freedom
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natural liberty(acting w/o restraint) was evil; supported moral liberty- only doing good
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massachusettes' bay company was founded by
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french merchants
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puritans deemed women to be the spiritual ______ of men
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equals
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first permanent english settlement in the area that is now the united states
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Jamestown, virginia
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a person who had experienced devine divine grace, especially during a lightning storm
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visible saint
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