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Am. History Test #1
history test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leif Eriksson | a Norse explorer who arrived in modern Canada almost 500 years before Columbus. |
| Christopher Columbus | a Geonese explorer who arrived in the New World in 1492. |
| Pre-Columbian Era | what historians refer to the period before Columbus' arrival in the New World as. |
| Native Americans/ Indians | people who populated North American during the Pre-Columbian Era. |
| Smallpox | an infectious disease that killed off most of the Native Americans in the 16th Century |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | sponsored a settlement on Roanoke Island, now part of North Carolina. |
| Roanoke Island/ Lost Colony | a settlement sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh but disappeared in 1590 earning it the name Lost Colony. |
| Joint-Stock Companies | a group of investors who bought the right to establish New World plantations from the king. |
| Virgina Company | a Joint-Stock company who funded Jamestown. |
| Jamestown | settled in 1606, funded by the Virgina Company. Nearly went the way of the Lost Colony. |
| Powhatan Confederacy | a local tribe who saved the colonies from perishing, taught the English what crops to plant and how to plant them. |
| Captain John Smith | an English settler who imposed harsh martial law. His motto "He who will not work shall not eat." |
| Tobacco | a cash crop introduced to Jamestown by John Rolfe. Local indians were growing the crop for years before that. |
| House of Burgesses | Established in Virgina in 1619. A place in which any property holding white male could vote. |
| Establishment of slavery | established in 1619, due to the growing demand for tobacco plantations and the lack of available workers. |
| Lord Baltimore | declared Maryland a haven of religious tolerance for all Christians, making it the first major Catholic enclave in the New World. |
| Maryland | a colony that was granted to Lord Baltimore as a gift from the king. |
| Act of Toleration | an act declared by Lord Baltimore after being given Maryland as a gift from the king. |
| Indentured Slaves | people who were promised 7 years labor after which they would receive their freedom. |
| Protestant Reformation | a time when the people of the church of England broke off because they were appalled by the corruption. |
| Separatists | One of the Puritan groups who left the English church, because of the corruption within it. |
| Puritans | a group of people who arose from the Protestant Reformation. These people began to look for a new place the practice their faith. |
| Mayflower Compact | a agreement that created a legal authority and an assembly, but also asserted that the government's power derives from the consent of the governed. |
| Absolutist/ Monarchist | Monarchists who arose in England believing that the government's power came from God. |
| Plymouth Colony | the settlement on the Massachusetts coast where the Pilgrims from the Mayflower landed. |
| Squanto | a Pokanoket indian who was captured by English traders and imprisoned in England for several years. When he returned he spoke English so he became the translator for the Pilgrims. |
| Massasoit | Sachem (or chief)of the wampanoags and the region. Not a monarch, but lead by example. |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | A larger more powerful colony founded in 1629 by the Congregationalists (Puritans who wanted to reform the Angelican church from within). |
| John Winthrop | The govenor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thanks to him the colony developed along Puritan ideals. |
| "City on a Hill" | John Winthrop's Massachusetts Bay Colony. A very strict puritan colony who's sole basis was to provide a model to the Church of England of how a true holy church should be run. |
| Predestination | The belief that every person's life, where they go and what they do, has already be decided before they were even born. |
| Roger Williams | A teacher in the Salem Bay settlement, who taught a number of controversial principles, among them that church and state should be seperate. |
| Rhode Island | Founded by Roger Williams. Known for its religious freedom as well as not requiring voters to be church members. |
| Ann Hutchinson | A prominent proponent af antinomianism, the belief that faith and God's grace, rather than good works, was all that was needed to earn your place in heaven. |
| Town Meetings | a |
| Pequot war | a |
| Metacom / King Phillip | a |
| William Penn | The founder of Pennsylvania. He was a quaker who recieved permission to start a colony that he called the "Holy Experiment". |
| Quaker | A radical protestant sect who believed in an inner light that brought them closer to God, pacifism, equality in religious and social life, and defiance of authority when it denied their rights to practice thier reilgion. |
| Pennsylvania | A colony founded by William Penn for the sake of refuge of all quakers. |
| Middle Passage | One of the three stages of the triangular trade route, specifically the first stage, bringing slaves from Africa to the caribbean islands. |
| Trianglular Trade Route | A self propelling trade system with three stages. 1. Slaves from Africa to the caribbean islands in exchange for sugar. 2. Sugar from there to New England in exchange for Rum. 3. Rum from there back to Africa for more slave. |
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Aaron Rostad
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