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History Chapter 3
People and events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus | Discovered the New world, from Italy, sailed for spain |
| The Colombian Exchange | Interchanging cultures between the old world and the new world |
| Conquistador | discover of new lands spanish |
| Peninsulare | top of spain's social class in the new world |
| Creole | middle class of new spain |
| Mestizo | lower class of new spain |
| Hernando Cortez | Went searching for gold in the New World |
| Las Casas | Suggested africans as slaves to save the native americans |
| Samuel de Champlain | Started quebec; New France Founded Port Royal: first french settlement |
| The fur trade | trade of fur between native americans and the french in New France |
| House of Burgesses | First assembly of elected officials in North America of British colonists; established by the virginia company |
| Mayflower Compact | settlers form into civil colony: for the better of the colony |
| Debtor | someone who owes money to another person |
| Slave Code | rules of slaves |
| Mercantilism | trade regulations |
| Puritans | religious groups in the south after the French & Indian war |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Connecticut to limit the power of the government |
| Roger Williams | Founded Rhode Island to separate church and state |
| Anne Hutchinson | went to Rhode Island; womens' rights; banished for saying "god spoke through me" |
| William Penn | started Pennsylvania and it was a holy experiment |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia; for debtors |
| John Peter Zenger | helped establish freedom of press; wrote something bad about the governor of New York and the governor sued Zenger for libel |
| Benjamin Franklin | Proposed Albany plan of union |
| John Adams | 2nd President; 1st vice; was a lawyer that was thought to be bad by helping the British; showed that colonists could be reasonable |
| Sam Adams | Boston Tea Party;began commitee of correspondents |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote declaration of independence |
| John Burgoyne | plan to capture Albany |
| Charles Cornwallis | lost at Yorktown and lost at Princeton and Trenton |
| Nathaniel Greene | rough tough woodsman in charge of southern army |
| Daniel Morgan | won at cowpens using unconventional tactics |
| Shay's Rebellion | led farmers in rebellion against courthouse |
| James Madison | Virginia Plan known as the father of the constitution |
| Roger Sherman | combines Virginia and New Jersey plan to maje the great compromise and made two houses; senate and house |
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