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Unit 1 APUSH review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | exchange of diseases, ideas, and food between the new world and old world. |
| Latin America staple crop | Sugar |
| Cortes, Pizarro, Coronado | conquistadores |
| Middle Passage. Triangle trade | slavery route |
| English attitude after Spanish Armada | english run the seas, powerful, united, and strong. |
| Joint stock companies | companies made up of a group of investors (Virginia Co) |
| Why English left | growing population, primogeniture (youngest sons left), joint -stock company |
| Early Attempt at colonization | Jamestown |
| Tobacco, rice, sugar places | plantation colonies |
| Plantation economy | economic sys. throughout the americas that produced crops, sugar, cotton, and tobacco using slave labor |
| Early Indian fate/ideas | against colonizers -> colonizers were stronger |
| Calvinism | protestant belief by John Calvin (predestination) |
| Conversion | turn to god, you know that you are chosen and going to heaven |
| Elect | those chosen by god to go to heaven |
| Visible saints | those who publicly had conversion |
| Anne hutchinson | challenged religious doctrine, Why act good if you are already chosen to go to heaven or hell no matter what you do |
| Early Rhode Island | Liberal, individualistic, "sewer" |
| Lord Baltimore | founded Maryland |
| Chesapeake | short lives |
| Southern | plantation colonies SLAVES |
| New England | long lives education |
| indentured servants | person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time usually in exchange for something (pay their passage) |
| Bacon's rebellion | white indentured servants attacking indians |
| Role of Women | stay at home. were more men than women |
| Salem Witch Trials | poor girls accused rich of witchery (killed w/o trial) out of jealousy |
| Splintering denominations | Angelican (english) and congregational (new england) |
| Colony population/minorities | more americans/less english 20% african (largest minority) |
| Molasses Act | stop colonist trading w/other countries other than England (got around it via smuggling) |
| Salutary Neglect | neglect of colonial affairs |
| Great Awakening | religious old lights (lecture) vs New Lights (emotional) |
| John Peter Zenger | Printer who wrote bad about NY governor, won trial because it was true. |
| Early governors/signs of democracy | taverns (all social classes) |