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History Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Covenant of Grace | place in heaven is decided already |
| Covenant of Works | living a good life will get you salvation |
| Headright System | if someone pays for another person to come to the colonies, that person recieves land & servant recieves land after servitude |
| Bacon's Rebellion | uprising the resulted from many conflicts, among them mounting land shortage and settlers' desires for Indian lands |
| John Winthrop | governor of Mass. who was responsible for exiling Anne Hutchinson |
| Puritans | people who dismiss reformers who objected to the course the church pursued |
| John Smith | colonial leader of Jamestown who established order, good relations with Indians |
| Pocahantas | indian woman who was a negotiator and married John Rolfe. was brought to England where she converted and was baptized |
| Navigation Acts | resticted trade and controled who the colonists could trade with and for how much (only english ships) |
| Stamp Act | any kind of document had to be stamped by British to prove you paid tax on it. |
| Boston Tea Party | protesting Tea Act by dumping large amounts of tea into the harbor |
| Committees of Correspondence | organizations of people who were trying to recieve independence or self rule, and tried to figure out how. |
| John Rolfe | tabacco tycoon, who married Pocahantas |
| King Phillips War | Major war between Indians and New England settlers. |
| The Colombian Exchange | trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas. Animals, diseases and plants |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | officially ends French and Indian War. French surrenders |
| Albany Plan | colonies all came together to try to figure out a plan dealing with French and Indian War. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | After French and Indian War, Indians wanted their land back and started rebelling. wanted to return to old practices |
| Proclimation Line of 1763 | England's attempt to end Indian problems by preventing westward movement by colonists |
| Restoration Colonies | Charles II gave land grants to people to start civilization there. NY, NJ, Carolinas, PA |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony in America, eventually became NY |
| Mercantilism | the theory that viewed the economic world as a collection of national states, whose gov'ts competed for shares of a finite amount of wealth |
| Iroquois Confederacy | composed of six Indian nations |
| Reconquista | taking back of Spain and Portugal from the Muslims |
| Cahokia | Mississippean people, largest city that has been found in North America, but was abandoned by the time Spain came |
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