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Unit 1 Test- Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| migration | a movement of people or animals from one region to another |
| environments | climates and landscapes that surround living things |
| societies | groups that share a culture |
| culture | a group's set of common values and traditions |
| totems | ancestor or animals spirits |
| Iroquois League | This political confederation was established by the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca nations. |
| capital | money or property that is used to earn more money. |
| joint-stock companies | businesses in which a group of people invest together |
| Northwest Passage | a passage through North America that would let ships sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Columbian Exchange | A transfer of plants, animals, and diseases became known as the Columbian Exchange because it resulted from Columbus's explorations |
| conquistadors | soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas |
| encomienda system | gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work |
| plantations | large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made huge profits for their owners |
| Protestant reformation | This religious movement began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church and spread through German towns in the 1520s and then to other parts of Europe |
| printing press | a machine that produced printed copies |
| Spanish Armada | launched to invade England and over throw Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican Church |
| inflation | a rise in a price of goods caused by an increase in the amount of money in use |
| charter | a document giving permission to start a colony |
| Jamestown | a colony about 40 miles up from the James River in Virginia |
| indentured servants | people who received a free trip to North America by agreeing to work without pay for a period of years |
| Bacon's Rebellion | When the governor tried to stop him, Bacon and his followers attacked and burned Jamestown |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians |
| slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| Puritans | A Protestant group, they wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church |
| Pilgrims | one Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution |
| Mayflower Compact | a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good |
| Quakers | The Society of Friends,made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey |
| staple crops | crops that are always needed |
| town meeting | a gathering of people who talked about important local interest issues |
| English Bill of Rights in 1689 | This act reduced the powers of the English monarch |
| triangular trade | a system in which goods and salves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | The slave trade brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Enlightenment | This movement, which took place during the 1700s, spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| Committees of Correspondence | committees got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about new British laws and ways to challenge them. |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items |
| Boston Massacre | A fight between the colonists and British soldiers in the streets that resulted in shootings |
| Tea Act 1773 | allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | The dumping of 340 British East India Company tea chests into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | In the spring of 1774 it passed the Coercive Acts, in result of Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | a gathering in the fall of 1774 of delegates from throughout the colonies |
| minutemen | members of the civilian volunteer militia |
| Paleo-Indians | Indians that crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America between 38,000 and 10,000 BC |
| hunter-gatherers | People hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food |
| Christopher Columbus | sailor from Genoa, Italy he credited for discovering the New World |
| Ferdinand Magellan | A Portuguese captain,set out to sail to Asia across the Southern Ocean |
| Hernan Cortes | a conquistador, conquered Aztec empire |
| Moctezuma II | leader of the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | a conquistador, conquered the Inca empire |
| Junipero Serra | a missionary that traveled to California in 1769 |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | a Spanish priest who defended American Indians' rights |
| Protestants | what reformers during the Protestant Reformation were known as |
| John Smith | took control of the colony Jamestown in 1608 and built a fort |
| Pocahontas | daughter of a Powhatan leader, married John Rolfe |
| Olaudah Equiano | a former slave, recorded his experiences |
| Squanto | Patuxet Indian, traveled to Europe and learned English, taught settlers to use fish as soil fertilizer |
| John Winthrop | led a fleet of puritans in 1630 |
| Anne Hutchinson | a woman who spoke freely about her religious ideas angered Puritan church leaders |
| William Penn | a Quaker and proprietor of New Jersey |
| Pontiac | an Indian leader who opposed British settlements in new lands |
| Samuel Adams | believed parliament could not tax colonists without their consent, made famous chant "Taxation without representation." |
| George Washington | a Virginian general who commanded the Continental Army |
| Thomas Paine | author of Common Sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | was one of the main writers of the Declaration of Independence |
| Marquis de Lafayette | french noblemen who joined Continental Army for free |
| Bernardo de Galvez | governor of the Spanish Louisiana, a key ally of the Patriots |
| John Paul Jones | brave and clever sailor, ship Bonhomme Richard suffered much damage |
| George Rodgers Clark | spent years exploring and mapping the western fronteir, traveled, gathered soldiers from small towns |
| Francis Marion | organized Marion's Brigade, group of Guerrilla soldiers |
| Comte de Rochambeau | Led 4,000 French troops in Battle of Yorktown |
| cash crops | crops grown to make huge profits |
| Continental Army | the military force that would carry out the fight against Brittan |
| redcoats | British soldiers wearing red uniforms |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | this battle proved colonists could take on the British |
| Second Continental Congress | In may 1775, delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia, main topic debated= fight, or find peace |
| Declaration of Independence | formally announced the colonies' break from Great Brittan |
| Patriots | colonists who chose to fight for independence |
| Loyalists | sometimes called Tories, were those who remained loyal to Great Brittan |
| mercenaries | foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay |
| Battle of Trenton | this battle was an important patriot victory (patriots attacked Hessians on Christmas night) |
| Battle of Saratoga | this battle in New York was the greatest victory yet for the American forces |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | In this Great Brittan recognized independence of the United states |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the American Revolution |
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