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AH1 Unit 1 Review
Unit 1 American History - Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Change that occurred when people started farming and settling in villages | Agricultural Revolution |
| People who move around from place to place in search of food | Nomads |
| Three main civilizations that inhabited Central America at the time of European contact | Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas |
| Type of society where the mother is held in high regard with inheritance and authority | Matrilineal Society |
| English document signed by King John in 1215, put limits on royal power | Magna Carta |
| A new era of creativity and learning in Europe | Renaissance |
| German monk who criticized and challenged the Catholic Church | Martin Luther |
| Reform movement that challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church and broke away from it | Protestant Reformation |
| Sea raiders who attacked the people of Western Europe and who supposedly first discovered America around 1000 AD. | Vikings |
| Italian explorer who "discovered the New World" for Spain | Christopher Columbus |
| English naval captain who led the defeat of the Spanish Armada | Sir Francis Drake |
| Spanish explorer of the 1500s; Spanish word for conquerer | Conquistador |
| Agreement established by the Pope that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Leader of the Pueblo revolt against Spanish control in Santa Fe in 1680 | Pope' |
| A business in which people pool their money to establish a colony in hopes of making a profit | Joint-Stock Company |
| 50 acre land grant that colonists could obtain if they paid for someone's passage to the New World | Headright |
| Early settler who developed a milder strain of tobacco more suitable to European tastes; married Pocahontas | John Rolfe |
| Virginia assembly that was America's first legislature | House of Burgesses |
| People who worked for a certain number of years in return for paid passage to America | Indentured Servants |
| Revolt of back country farmers against Jamestown in 1676; were not being protected from Indian attacks | Bacon's Rebellion |
| People who wanted to reform the Church of England; left for religious freedom | Puritans |
| Written rules that the Pilgrims wrote to keep order in the new settlement; one of the first democratic governments | Mayflower Compact |
| Religious dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts; left to form Rhode Island where the church and government were separate | Roger Williams |
| Woman banished from MA for saying people could be spiritual without the help of ministers | Anne Hutchinson |
| 1675 conflict between Native Americans and settlers; left southern New England open to white settlement | King Philip's War |
| Christian group that believed in equality of men and women and direct, personal communication with God | Quakers |
| Religious leader who founded the colony of Pennsylvania; welcomed all people | William Penn |
| Colony founded as a haven for Catholics | Maryland |
| Colony founded as a haven for debtors and criminals | Georgia |
| Colony founded first by the Dutch as New Amsterdam and then taken from them by the English | New York |
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