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US History 1
Terms and Names SUNDERLAND
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mayans | people who created a civilization in Guatemala and Tucatan peninsula about AD 250 - 900 |
| Kashaya Pomo | tribe from the Marshlands of what is now California; |
| Kwakiutl | native people that formerly inhabited the Northwest regions of the United States and Vancouver Island (CAN) |
| Pueblo | native group descended from the Anasazi; Southwestern desert |
| Anasazi | native Americans who lived in the Southwest from BC 300 - 1300 AD |
| Iroquois | vast Native American society; hunters (turkey, deer) and gatherers (farmer; developed stone axes, canoes, snow-shoes; spoke numerous languages |
| kinship | ties between members of a family or tribe or tribal society |
| division of labor | assigment of different tasks by gender age or status. each age and gender had jobs to perform and decisions to make each level of society had its specific functions |
| Olmec | people who created a civilation along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, beginning around 1200 AD |
| Aztec | people who built empires in mexico in the beginning of 1200 |
| Incans | people who bult an empire along the west coast of south america,beging in the 1400s |
| Hohokam | Native Americans who lived in the south west from about 300 bc to ad 1300 |
| Anasazi | Native Americans who lived in the south west from about a.d 300 to 1300 |
| Adena | Mound-builder society who lived in the Ohio river valley 700 B.C.-A.D. 100 |
| Hopewell | Mound-building people who lived in the Ohio river valley; flourished from 200 B.C.-A.D. 400 |
| Mississippian | the last and most complex of the Mound-building societies who lived in the Ohio river valley and Mississippi river valleys until the 1500s |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who sailed to north america for Spain. |
| Taino | Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed in the Caribbean |
| Colonization | the establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by the parent country. |
| Treaty of Tortesillas | a agreement between Spain and Portugal to explore different lands. |
| Columbian exchange | transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas, Africa and Europe following Columbus' first voyage |
| Conquistador | Spanish explorer |
| Heranando Cortes | Conquistador who defeated the Aztces |
| Mestizo | Person of mixed Spanish and Native Americans for labor. |
| encomienda | brutal Spanish system of using native Americans for labor |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Conquistador who explored present-day Florida |
| congregaciones | large communities started by Spanish priests to convert native Americans |
| New Mexico | Spanish colonies in north America |
| Pope | Pueblo religious leader who led an uprising against the Spanish |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America |
| John Smith | Leader of Jamestown |
| Powhatan | Native American who lived in the area that became Jamestown. |
| Headright system | the Virginia Company's system in which settlers and their family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land |
| Indentured servants | Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America |
| royal colony | A colony under the direct control of a monarch |
| Montezuma | Aztec emperor who was convinced that Cortes was an armor-clad god, thereby surrendering gold and silver to Spain and subsequently stoned to death by his own people for being a traitor |
| Nathaniel Bacon | A planter from Virginia who led a rebellion against local tribes |
| Puritan | member of a religious group know for its strict beliefs |
| Separatist | member of Puritan group who established their own congregations |
| Pequot War | A 1637 conflict in which the Pequot battled Connecticut colonists. |
| Metacom | Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the king Philips War. |
| King Philips War | Conflict between settlers and Native Americans |
| Bering Land Bridge | land strip exposed during last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago that allowed for migration from Asia to North America |
| John Winthrop | first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Puritans |
| mercantilism | territory that countries get rich through colonies |
| Balance of trade | the differences in value between what a country buys and what sells |
| parliament` | a law making body of england |
| navigation acts | laws pasted by the British to control colonial trade. |
| Dominion of new England | a huge colony formed by the king of England which include land from southern Maine from new jersey |
| sir Edmund Andros | governor appointed by the king of England to govern over the dominion of England |
| Glorious revolution | over throw of Jamestown II |
| salutary neglect | in English policy of not strictly enforcing in its colonies |
| cash crop | a crop grown for sale rather than for the farmers use |
| triangular trade | the pattern of trade across the atlantic |
| middle passage | the voyage that brought slaves to america |
| stono rebellion | a 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston south Carolina |
| George washington | led Virginia troops in the first battle of the french and indian war |
| French and indian war | war that gave the British control of north America |
| William, pit | British leader in the french and indian war |
| Pontiac | Native american leader who fought the british |
| Proclamation of 1763 | law limiting the area of English settlement |
| George Grenville | Financial export who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763 |
| Sugar act | law pasted by parliament to try to raise money |
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