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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | Transfer of plants, cultures, animals, slaves, religion, and diseases across new and old world |
| Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 | Spain and Portugal divided land in the new world to reduce conflict |
| Encomienda 1502 | Spain, allowed government to give Indians to colonists to Christianize them |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors of parts of American seeking for wealth |
| Pueblo Revolt 1680 | Spanish tried to convert the people. After pueblos were killed, the pope lead the pueblo people to a revolt against the Spanish forcing them to leave the area |
| Casta System | Racial hierarchy in Spanish colonies |
| Bartolome de la casas | Spanish priest historian, advocated for the rights of indigenous people in America |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish ruler in Mexico, conquered the Aztecs |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer/navigator sailed to find sea route to Asia but instead thought he discovered "India" |
| Montezuma | Aztec Emperor in 1519 after Hernan |
| Joint-stock company | A company of shareholders, sold shares to make profits |
| Jamestown 1607 | First English colony in America, chartered by King James 1 to the Virginians |
| Primogeniture | 0ldest song inherits all family property |
| Anglo-Powhattan wars | Three wars between settlers of Virginia colony and the Powhattan people and ended with a treaty |
| Iroquois | A confederation of indigenous people in North America that fought with the English in the French-Indian war |
| Puritans | English protestants settled in Massachusetts Bay colony to build "city upon the hill". Believed in strict morality, education, and predestination. |
| Mayflower Compact | First governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by Saints fleeing from religious prosecution by King James 1. |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Established by English charter company in 1630 established by Puritans seeking religious freedoms , led by John Winthrop governed by strict religious principles. |
| King Philips war | First Indian war, between natives and English colonists and their allies from 1675-78. The Native Americans attempted to stop English settlement. |
| Navigation Laws | Parliamentary acts designed to eliminate competition for colonial trade from France, Dutch, and Spanish |
| Quakers | Quaked under deep religious emotion, also known as the religious society of friends. Democratic, religiously tolerant, and civic freedom. |
| John Winthrop | First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan spiritual advisor, challenged puritan authority of religion and gender norms |
| Roger Williams | Found colony of Rhode island in 1636 for religious freedom and separation of church, was banished from Massachusetts Bay |
| William Penn | Founded Pennsylvania in 1681, Established fair government with diversity, tolerance, and pace with Native Americans, and provided refuge for Quakers. |
| Indentured Servants | Debt bondage people work for a specific period and when done, granted freedom with land and resources |
| Headright System | Legal grant policy of land to settlers. Headrights granted land to anyone that payed for the transportation costs of a laborer/ind. serv. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of governor William Berkeley. |
| Royal African Company | English joint-stock company chartered by King Charles 11, monopoly on English trade in West Africa |
| Middle Passage | Journey on sea of Enslaved Africans across Atlantic Ocean to America with brutal conditions and many daeths |
| Salem Witch Trials | Series of hearings and prosecutions of mainly women of witchcraft in Massachusetts, 1692-93 |
| Paxton Bays | Frontiersmen protested and formed a group against natives 1763 |
| Stono Rebellion | Largest slave revolt in British Colonies of 100 enslaved Africans marched to south to Spanish Florida seizing weapons and killing white settlers 1739 |
| Triangular trade | Connecting Europe, Africa, and America where goods went to Europe then Africa then enslaved people to the Americas to work and those goods are shipped back to Europe |
| Great Awakening | Several periods of Protestant religious revivals in American religious history |
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