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Period 1 & 2
Period 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discovery | 1491-1607 |
| Colonization | 1607-1754 |
| 3G | God, gold, and glory |
| Age of exploration | Columbus's accidental discovery results in colonization of New World |
| Triangular trade | New world is used for raw materials, Europeans markets, and African labor |
| Columbian exchange | exchange of goods, ideals, and humans, between the New and Old World |
| Chesapeake | 3 ships first landed near Chesapeake Bay by a site called Jamestown |
| John Smith | held leadership |
| Powhatan's Confederacy | Chief Powhatan had control over a few tribes |
| 2nd Anglo-Powhatan War | Natives would lose again and Native power was destroyed since |
| 3D | Disease, disorganization, and disposability |
| Barbados slave code | rules meant to keep slaves in line |
| Bartolomé De Las Casas | Spanish priest who spoke out against the oppression of the indigenous people |
| Encomienda system | Spanish labor system that awarded conquistadors with those who are conquered |
| Black legend | propaganda spread by other European nations to attack the "best" nation, Spain |
| Puritans | sought to purify the Anglican Church of its Christian ideology in the New World |
| Separatists | English Protestants who would not stay with the England Church |
| Plymouth | Religious pilgrims land at Plymouth from the Mayflower |
| Joint-stock company | large companies that are owned by shareholders that can be used to fund these large trips |
| Pilgrims | are extremists who sought the separation from England |
| New England status | Came for religious purposes; made up of mostly families;had cold winters and mild summers |
| Chesapeake status | Came for gold/wealth; mostly single men;hot summers and mild winters |
| 1st Anglo-Powhatan War | weakening of Native tribes with an uneasy truce from Rolfe's marriage |
| Iroquois confederacy | was a confederation of 5 distinct tribes |
| Middle Colonies status | in the middle of NE and Chesapeake in status |
| The middle passage | A voyage that brought enslaved African Americans across the Atlantic to North America |
| House of Burgesses | Like the parliament of landowning men in Virginia |
| Indentured servants | colonists who recieved free passage to North America if they worked |
| Bacon's rebellion | in 1676, Bacon led a rebellion against people who were friendly to natives because he wanted land |
| Middle Colonies | made up of NY, NJ, Delaware, and Pennsylvania |
| William Penn | Quaker converter |
| Quakers | religious society that sought the equality of all men & women, nonviolence, and were seen as non-conformists had a good relation with the Natives |
| Mercantilism | economic system built around the idea of trying to maximize profit for the mother country |
| Colonial politics | gradual development of democratic institution in colonies and self governing |
| Trade & Navigation Acts | acts required that all goods produced in the New world be shipped to Britain first certain goods sold only to GB just regulated the entirety of trade |
| Salutary Neglect | British's unofficial policy to relax the enforcement of strict regulations in the colonies |
| Great Awakening | diversity in religious opinions led to diversity in political thought new religious groups first mass movement in the colonies did this by saying that hell is eternal and super powerful speaking |
| Old light | conservative clergymen against the Great Awakening |
| New light | clergymen who supported the Great Awakening |
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