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US History Unit 1
Honors US History One Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Land Bridge | the bridge of land that connected Eurasia and America 25,000 years ago |
| Pueblos | a technologically advanced village of the Spanish people in the Rio Grande Valley |
| Aztecs/Incas | a group of Indians in Mexico that had an amazing empire built before being taken over by Cortes |
| Mound Builders/Cahokia | a culture near the Ohio River Valley before they mysteriously declined around 1300 |
| Iroquois | the closest nation of Indians to the Americas because of their political ways |
| Tainos | the Indians native of Puerto Rico before being destroyed by Conquistadors |
| San Salvador | the first island sighted by Christopher Columbus |
| Columbian Exchange | the biological trade between the New World and the Old World |
| Encomienda | the Spanish systme by which the Indians labored for a Spaniard in return for care |
| Ponce de Leon | the first governer of Puerto Rico and led the first expedition to Florida |
| Francisco Pizzarro | the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incon Empire |
| Montezuma | the Aztec leader that led an attack against Hernan Cortes |
| Robert de La Salle | an explorer throughout the Americas and claimed the Mississippi River for France |
| Black Legend | the historical political style of the Spanish |
| Christopher Columbus | the Spanish explorer that led four explorations where he found San Salvidor, Hispaniola, Cuba, America, Trinidad, Jamiaca, and Central America, despite finding Indians in most of the areas |
| Hispaniola | the area containing the Dominican Republic and Haiti which was founded by Christopher Columbus |
| Conquistadors | the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | the treaty between Spain and Portugal where they drew a line saying that Spain would recieve the Western land and Portugal would recievethe Eastern land |
| Hernan Cortes | the spanish conquistador who overtook the Aztecs to capture Mexico City |
| Aztecs | the empire led by Montazuma in Mexico City prior to being captured by Hernan Cortes |
| Henry Hudson | the English explorer who traveled to America four times, most notably finding the Hudson River |
| Enclosure Movement | the farming strategy among the British aristocrats using crop rotation and new farming technology |
| Roanoke | the English colony in America that is known as the "Lost Colony" because when John White returned to the colony nobody was there |
| Peter Stuyvesant | the man who surrendered New Amsterdam to the British |
| Virginia Company | the Enlgish company that sent men to Jamestown, and any riches that were found there would be given to the company'sstockholders |
| William Penn | the quaker that founded the colony of Pennsylvania after he left England |
| Jamestown | The English colony in America that faced starvation and death, as they had to work with the native Indians |
| Lord de Le Warr | the man that brought supplies and men to Jamestown during the starving time and then started a war with the Indians |
| Captain John Smith | the English explorer that found John Smith |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia's governmental body composed of elective representatives |
| Maryland Toleration Act | the act that guaranteed everybody in Maryland toleration who believed in Christianity and death to those who didnt believe in it |
| Lord Baltimore | one of the men who found the colony of Maryland after recieving a charter |
| Henry VIII | the man who sent men to Jamestown and Roanoke so he change religion and thereby change wives |
| Puritans | the strict religious group that moved to America because they wanted to and could not purify the church of England |
| John Winthrop | the first governer of the Massachusettes Bay Colony |
| Pilgrims | the first English settlers in America, who settled in Plymouth because they wanted religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | the first government document of Plymouth |
| Roger Williams | the man who believed in the seperation in church and state, challenging the Massachusettes Bay Company |
| Anne Hutchinson | the woman that claimed that she could talk to god |
| Antinomianism | the idea that by faith and God's grace, Christians are freed from all grace |
| Thomas Hooker | the puritan leader that founded the colony of Connecticut |
| ing Philip's War | the last major Indian war in New England |
| Dominion of New England | when King James II exerted more royal control, despite the colonies not wanting this |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of King James II in England |
| Bacon's Rebellion | the rebellion of Virginian farmers, like Nathaniel Bacon, which led to the killing of Indians and the burning of Jamestown |
| Headright System | a system that made some people very wealthy by giving them the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a loborer to America |
| Chesapeake | the area of Virginia and Maryland |
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