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ch. 1-4 test
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02/10/2011

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Eastern Woodlands People
Definition
-horticulture and hunting
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Mississippi Mound Builders
Definition
-City Center-Cahokia
-made mounds for religion and burial
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Native American Communities of the Southwest (including Mesa Verde)
Definition
Anasazi pueblos villages
-Chaco Canyon
-Mesa Verde
Term
Christopher Columbus and his exploration
Definition
-discovered America in 1462
-looking for gold and Asia
-disseminate Christianity
-trying to find trade routes because of the plague
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Marco Polo
Definition
-Italian explorer
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The Bubonic Plague and its role in trade
Definition
They started looking for new trade routes
Term
Slavery prior to 1500
Definition
-race didn't matter
-not significant
Term
Reconquista
Definition
-700 year war
-Spain reconquests the land
-Isabel and Ferdinand unite Spain by marriage
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The emergence of Spain as a nation
Definition
-marriage of Isabel and Ferdinand
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Caribs vs. Tainos
Definition
C.-aggressive
T.- kind and peaceful
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Requerimiento
Definition
no enslaving Indians if they abide by the rules
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Columbian Exchange
Definition
-plants, animals, human beings, and diseases shared between the old and new world
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The role that disease played in the New world
Definition
-brought syphylus
-Indians didn't have time to adjust
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Early French explorations in North America
Definition
-fishing off of Newfoundland is supplemented and eventually eclipsed by fur trade with indians
-St. Lawrence River Valley 16th century
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French Explorers in North America
Definition
-Jacques Cartier
-Chaplain
-Henry Hudson
Term
Privateering
Definition
paid by government to raid foreign ships
-Sir Francis Drake
Term
The Mourning Wars
Definition
-Iriquoy blood war
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Netherlands in the 17th century
Definition
Henry Hudson
-Protestant country committed to a market economy
-colonization by a private company
-pricate and non-missionary venture
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John Rolfe
Definition
-Married Pocahontas
Term
Indentured servants in North America
Definition
-came to America, worked for 7 years for their freedom
Term
Powhatan
Definition
-Indian chief
Term
The establishment of the colonies at the Chesapeake and New England
Definition
Chesapeake-James the I wanted peace with Spain, granted 2 charters, Jamestown was founded in 1607, trouble with the Powhatans, Rolfe plants tobacco
-England- much healthier, Halfway covenant
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The differences between a royal colony and proprietary colony
Definition
royal- owned by a company (i.e.-The VA company, the Plymouth Company)
proprietary- owned by a family
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Characteristics of Puritanism
Definition
-calvanists- sovereignty of God, no free will
-against Catholicism
-against Arminianism
-regular Bible reading
-sermons were long and passionate
-church membership-can vote
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Roger Williams
Definition
-extreme separatist views led him to be banished in 1635, began a new colony in 1644 called Rhode Island for dissenters
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Anne Hutchinson
Definition
-accussed of holding church meetings in her house
Term
English Civil War
Definition
-Charles I raised an army against Parliament and Oliver Cromwell. he was beheaded.
Term
Mercantilism
Definition
-mother country provides the finished products and the colonies provide the raw materials
Term
Navigation Acts
Definition
-all goods must go through Great Britain so it can be taxed
Term
Establishment of Pennsylvania
Definition
-William Penn, Quaker, received charter in 1681. Promised self-government, freedom of religion, and reasonably priced land
Term
Establishment of Carolina
Definition
-combined democratic and feudal elements
-representative government and toleration of religion
-hereditary rules
Term
Bacon's Rebellion
Definition
-1676, Nathaniel Bacon bs Governor Berkeley about indians rights to the land
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