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APUSH Period 2
Please let this be effective ;-; LEFT COLUMN AS OF SEPT 29TH
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel de Champlain | Built off the Jacques Cartier exploration | Founded Quebec |
| St. Lawrence River (St. Lawrence Seaway) | Combines U.S and Canadian Waters, creating a major route for shipping | |
| Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet | Explored areas around Wisconsin, Arkansas, and the Upper Mississippi River | |
| coureur de bois | "Forrest Runner" | French fur trapper in New France Main target was Beaver Pelts |
| Jesuit missionaries vs. Franciscan missionaries | Franciscan missionaries were forceful Eventually forced Indians to do slave labor | Jesuit missionaries were more peaceful and less forceful Ended up converting a lot more Natives than Spain |
| Dutch West India Company | Gave a Monopoly over American fur trade and West African Slave trade | |
| Henry Hudson | Sailed into the Hudson River To Albany, New York in 1609 | Set up trade posts in Manhattan Island as well as New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania |
| New Netherlands/New Amsterdam | Created in 1623 in New York, founded by the Dutch | No democracy |
| Dutch Gov. Peter Stuyvesant | Ignored the call of many Puritan settlers for a representative goverment | |
| English defeat of the Spanish Armada | ||
| Enclosure acts | More and more of someones land was being fenced off by someone else | |
| Massive Inflation | ||
| Vagrancy Laws | Poor/Homeless people went to jail because they had no where to go | |
| Increase in English population | People were pursected in England, so they settled in America | As the population increased by a lot, the economy started to decline because they couldn't keep up |
| Richard Hakluyt | Wrote about going to America, but had never went to America | |
| Jamestown (1607) | Virginia company sponsored a trip where 104 men and boys attended | Had many problems: Diseases, Location, lack of wealth |
| Joint Stock Companies | No one could underwrite the expenses of a trip and colonial establishment in America | |
| Virginia Company | Was given the right to control the Virginian Goverment | |
| Powhatans | Native Americans who lead on with a massacre | |
| John Smith | Took over Jamestown in 1608 | Ran with the "Don't work, don't eat" rule Ran with a military with a military type order |
| Indentured servitude | Most were unemployed men Africans were considered doing this before it was slavery | Promised land, wealth and tools after a point of time, but were lied to. |
| Headright System | ||
| John Rolfe | Married Pocahontas | Found a milder tobacco in Virginia |
| Tobacco | Cash crop in Virginia | Chesapeake Bay |
| First African Slaves brought to Jamestown | In 1619 | They were considered indentured slaves before they became slaves |
| House of Burgesses | White people 21 and over | 1st representative government in an english colony |
| Jacques Cartier | Explored the edges of the east coast of Canada | First French explorer to navigate the St. Lawrence River |