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US History Test -- up to Albany Congress 1754
Everything we covered in US History up until the Albany Congress in 1754
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11th Grade
10/09/2012

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Bartholomeu Diaz (1488)
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found cape of good hope, then turned around
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Vasco De Gama (1497)
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went to cape of good hope, and kept going to Asia
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Pedro Cabral (1500)
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found Brazil, and now they speak Portugese
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Portugal's reasons
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wealth, wanted to spread Portuguese culture, wanted to spread Catholicism
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Christopher Columbus' birth city
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Genoa, Italy
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Marco Polo
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Venetian, honored guest of Kublah khan
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Portugal was superpower of exploration
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best maps and mapmakers, best ships, best navigational tools, support from the monarchy
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reasons why Europeans explored
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curiosity and adventure, potential wealth, fame, national pride, religious freedom, rare foreign goods, faster/cheaper trade routes
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Bering Strait/ Land Bridge
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Indians came by way of this
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North amer. indians
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more primitive: gathered nuts/wildberries, hunted/fished, or starved if nothing was available
formed tribes that spoke the same language
varied in physical appearance
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Eric the Red (960)
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Viking, first explorer came from norway and ended up on iceland
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Leif Ericson (1000 AD)
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Eric the Red's son, landed on canada, smelled wild grapes, called it vinland
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south amer. indians
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practiced botany
great stone builders
incas and mayans built pyramids
mathemeticians
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10 million native americans
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in North America
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family (clan) > tribe > ?
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confederation
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Goes to portugal to see king john for sponsorship
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christopher columbus
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sextant
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gives latitude and longitude
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goes to spain (second country) to see king ferdinand and queen isabella for sponsorship
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Christopher columbus
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Santa maria
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CC was physically on this ship
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CC's 3 ships?
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Nin~a, Pinta, Santa Maria
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Palos, Spain (August 3rd, 1492)
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CC left from here on first voyage
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October 12, 1492
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CC... land spotted!
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Bahamas
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where CC landed. called it San salvador. natives thought they were from heaven
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Hispaniola (today, Haiti, Dom. Rep.)
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"hub" island of CC's adventures
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navidad
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fort on hispaniola
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indians, parrots, corn, tobacco, some gold
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what CC brought back to Spain
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CC's voyages
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4
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Diego colon/ cologne (?)
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CC's son
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Amerigo Vespucci (1501)
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suggested it was a whole new continent, German mapmaker named America after him
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Vasco Balboa (1513)
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Panama, called pacific ocean "south sea", power struggle in panama and balboa was beheaded (1519)
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Ponce de Leon (1513)
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looking for FoY and gold, Caribbean and florida, St. Augustine, first european to see North America
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St. Augustine
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oldest city in NA, established by Ponce de Leon
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Ferdinand Magellan 1519-1522
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Magellan's Straits, died in april 1521, stabbed, his ship crossed the indian ocean and went around the tip of Africa to prove that the world is round
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Hernando cortes 1519
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brought 600 soldiers to new world, from spain to mexico, discovers aztecs, chief montezuma befriends him and gives him gold, chief m. kills cortes bc of mooching, spain conquers mexico
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Francisco Pizarro 1531-1535
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encounters incas in SA, chief atahualpa befriends he and gives him gold, he arrests the chief and says "fill this whole room with gold and i'll give ur chief back" they did, but he killed the chief anyway, brought alot of wealth to spain
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conquistadors
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everything they find is theirs
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panfilo de narvaez
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crew of 260 people, only 4 out of 260 people survived, but only 1 guy ever made it back to Europe (cabeza de vaca)
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hernando de soto 1539
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first E to see M river
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Vazquez de coronado 1540
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comes to mexico, hears indians talk about cibola, heads NE, Kansas, discovers Grand Canyon
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Spanish contributions to the New World
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domesticated animals, fruit and nut trees, Christianity, spanish architecture, firearms, slavery, spanish language
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john cabot 1497
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nova scotia, turned away and never came back again bc he wanted to find a water route to china
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Sea Dogs 1560s
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Pirates
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John Hawkins
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first English sea dog
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Francis Drake
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sea dog, goes around SA and steals stuff from spanish, stopped acapoco, stopped in washington, wealth, went around the world in approx. 3 years
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King Philip II
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King of Spain who had 3 Demands of England
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Demands, from King Philip II
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1: e must return the gold they stole
2: e must aplogize for drakes actions
3: e must punish drake (kill him)
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Queen elizabeth's respons to demands of KPII
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she knighted Francis Drake
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Spanish Armada (1588)
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132 ships 1588!!!!
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Calais
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where the Spanish armada parked for R&R, to eat, drink, and be merry
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Lord Effingham
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we shall pluck them feather by feather!!
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Englands burnt ship
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The hell burner
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