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Unit 1 APUSH review
Term | Definition |
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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) |