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American History cmc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Leif Ericson name the country he landed on? | Vinland |
| What did Chris Colombus land on in 1492? | Bahamas which he named san salvador and claimed for spain.. he also discovered haiti and cuba |
| John Cabot | Italian Navigator in the service of england |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian navigator in the service of england |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan book |
| Nomadic | no fixed home- move place to place- look for food and water |
| Reformation | criticized catholic church practices. |
| John locke and social contract theory | human nature is characterized by reason- intolerance and human nature |
| Columbian exchange | global transfer of living things and goods that columbus started with his first voyage |
| Indentured servant | come to virginia- person who has contracted to work for another for a limited period of time. |
| Puritan | Members of a group that wanted to erase catholics from the church of England. |
| Navigation acts- | England's parliament passed this to tighten the trade in the colonies |
| Triangular trade | enslaved africans were traded across the atlantic ocean |
| enlightenment | spread from europe to the colonies where people embraced the notion of obtaining the truth through experiments. |
| french and indian war | 1754- french vs. britain |
| the _____ settlement was the first successful english colony | jamestown |
| the ____ est. a boundary along the appalachians, which colonists could not cross | proclomation 1763 |
| ____ was a philosopher who spread ideas of enlightment | ben franklin |
| the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle was known as the ________ | middle passage |