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Midterm #1
US History 146
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indentured Servants | People who came to the New World to work under a contract for a certain time (free passage, promised land, usually died before contract completion) |
| Puritans | Wanted to purify the Church of England because they thought the church was too Catholic |
| Anne Hutchinson | The woman expelled from the Massachusetts Colony for preaching to men (challenging male authority) |
| Roger Williams | Founder of Rhode Island |
| Encyclopedia | 28 volumes of knowledge that circulated throughout Europe |
| Halfway Covenant | Religious compromise to keep the children and grandchildren of the original Puritans part of the Church |
| Jonathan Edwards | Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Restoration Colonies | Created as a result from the land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England (Pennsylvania and Carolina) |
| Plantation Agriculture | Large scale agriculture in American colonies where forced slave labor was used in the (cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco, etc.) farms |
| Pope | Led the most successful Indian Uprising against white colonists in New Mexico |
| Columbian Exchange | Transfer of plants, animals, disease and culture between Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas |
| Magna Carta | Document signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215. During the English Civil War and the American Revolution Englishmen and Colonist looked to an early document as a precedent for over throwing the king |
| Roanoake | The first English attempt at settlement in the New World |
| Tituba | West Indian slave woman who read the girls fortunes in Salem |
| True or False. No men were ever convicted in the Salem Witch trials. | False |
| Ergot | The fungus that may have been in their grain |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Rebellion started by indentured servants and free blacks in Jamestown |
| Cahokia | City in the Midwest that was built by Mississippian Mound builders |
| Virginia | Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the Virgin Queen |
| Could slaves legally marry? | No |
| Tobacco | Staple crop of Virginia |
| Pennsylvania | Founded by William Penn |
| Quaker Faith (Society of Friends) | William Penn’s religion |
| Metacomet | King Philip’s real Indian name |
| How many original colonies were there? | 13 Colonies |
| King Charles I | The king beheaded during the English Civil War |
| New Model Army | Army of Puritans during the English Civil War |
| Independents | Name for the soldiers in the New Puritan army |
| Oliver Cromwell | Ruled England as Lord Protector after the death of King Charles I |
| Jamestown | First successful English settlement |
| Land | The basis of liberty for the early English settlers (Puritans) |
| New Netherland | Dutch name for New York State |
| Glorious Revolution | Because it was completed mostly without bloodshed |
| Why did Parliament ask William and Mary to invade England? | Both were Protestants, and the English Parliament invited them to overthrow James II because they saw him threatening the Protestant establishment. |
| Triangular Trade | A model for economic exchange among three markets (America, Africa, and Europe) |
| Middle Passage | The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World |
| Ships or “Coffin Ships” | They saw many deaths due to their unseaworthy nature, overcrowding, lack of clean drinking water, unsanitary conditions and the rampant spread of disease |
| How Indian life was changed after the arrival of White Men | Lost land, became alcoholics, etc. |
| North Slavery? | They bought molasses from the sugar plantations to make rum. Slaves coming up for ship building. |
| Rum | Made from molasses in Massachusetts |
| Salem Witch Trials | Widows, Ipswich Road, PTSD, HPV, Church vs. non-Church, Town vs. Village, East vs. West, Mass Hysteria, etc. |
| Evil | In the Discourse of Depravity, women internalized a belief that women were____ |
| Coverture | Covered by a man (father, husband, or uncle) |
| Zheng He | Chinese navigator who made seven expeditions and some believe he discovered America |
| True or False the catastrophic decline of Native American people was caused by European diseases for which they had no immunity. | True |
| Why did Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church? | Wanted a divorce from Katherine of Aragon, but the Pope wouldn't give him one |
| Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore | Founded Maryland as a place for Catholics to worship freely |
| Voltaire | Enlightenment Thinker that wrote 2,000 books, pamphlets and letters |
| God, Glory, and Gold | Three things that motivated the Spanish to explore the New World |
| Mayflower Compact | No rules yet, but everyone promised to follow the rules that were going to be made |
| Logic and Reason | Enlightenment focus |
| Benjamin Franklin | Ideal of the American Enlightenment |
| The Great Awakening | Religious movement that moved Christianity toward a more emotional experience of God |
| Bastille | Prison in Paris that the people tore down in the French Revolution |
| True or False. The mound builders were part of a culture we call Mississippian Culture. | True |
| Denis Diderot | Editor of the Encyclopedia |
| John Calvin | Religious leader that the Puritans followed |
| King George III | King that lost the American colonies |
| What were the 5 reasons that the West was thrust into a power position in the Early Modern Period? | Decline of the Muslim empire, the Renaissance, China's failure to fill the void, strong economies, and strong monarchies |
| True or False. Our Founding Fathers used religiosity as a political strategy. | True |
| Puritan | Plymouth Main Religion |
| Quaker | Pennsylvania Main Religion |
| Catholic | Maryland Main Religion |
| New Amsterdam | Dutch name for New York City |
| Smallpox | Disease that decimated the Indian populations in the Americas |
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