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Who was Christopher Columbus and wha did he discover?
A skilled Italian seafarer who persuaded the Spabish monarchs to outfit him with three ships manned by a crew. His goal was to find a new water route to the Indies, but instead landed in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492
Who was Marco Polo?
An Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 and began telling tales about China
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
He was a conquistador and was the first to circle the globe
Who was Hernan Cortez?
He was a conquistador who was able to capture the Aztec city of Tenochitlan because they thought he was a god
Who was Father Junipero Serra?
Founded San Diego, CA
Who was King Henery VIII?
He became the king of England and launched the protestant reformation
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
He worked for Queen Elizabeth of England he sent an expidition and landed on the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island(dissapeared). Brohter to Humphrey Gilbert who died at sea
Name the Rulers of England?
Henery VII
Henery VIII
Edward VI
"bloody mary"
Elizabeth
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
A famous "sea-dog" who returned to england with a ship full of spanish treasures
Who was John Smith?
He whipped the the colony in line with the rule " He who shall not work, shall not eat."
Who was Pocahontas
She was daughter of cheif Powhatan from the Powhatan tribe. She saved smith by interfering with the violence between them
Who was Lord De La Warr?
Jamestown new governer, who ordered the settlers back to Jamestown and imposed harsh military regime. He also took harsh military action against the indians.
Who was John Rolfe?
He was the husband to Pocahontas. He perfected the meathod of growing tobacco and saved the Virginia colony.
Who was Lord Baltimore?
He founded Maryland because he wanted to reap financial profits and create a refuge for Cathlics. Passed the Act of Toleration
King Charles dissmissed Parliment . Oliver Cromwell did what?
Beheaded him
Who was James Oglethrope?
A military leader who repelled Spanish attacks from the charity colony of Georgia
Who was John Calvin?
A religous leader who founded calvinism
What did King Henery VIII do?
broke ties with Roman Catholic Church and appointed himself the head of the Church of England
Who was William Bradford?
Governer of MA Bay Colony. A self-taught scholar who read hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch. He was chosen for the election governer multiple times.
Who was Roger Williams?
A popular minister and an Extreme Seperatist. He preached to make a break with the church of England. Fled to RI
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truley saved shouldn't bother with the word of God.
Who was Squanto?
A Wampanoag who had learned englidh who was kidnapped by the captain, and helped celebrate first thanksgiving
Who was Metacom?
King Phillip. He had assults against english villages throughout New England
Who was Sir Edmund Andros?
Englishman who established headquarters for military in Boston. He taxed peopl ewith no consent and enforced the Navigation Laws
Who were the Quakers?
Society of Friends. Refused to support Church of England ans we Pacifists with indians
Who was William Penn?
An English Quaker who founded PN. System was liberal and assembly elected by landowners
Who was William Berkley?
Governer of VG. Treated Indians fairly.
Who was Nathaniel Baccon?
Posed a rebellion against Berkley because he was frusrated about land, women, and how he respected the indians
Who were the Paxon Boys?
protested Quaker beliefs toward Indians
Who was Johnathon Edwards and George Whitefield?
intillectual pastors
Who was Peter Zenger?
His newspaper had assailed to sorrupt the goverment
What is three-sister farming?
beans and squash
What is a caravel?
a ship that could sail more closely into the wind
What was the plantation system?
commercial agriculture based on salve labor
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Spain divided the new world with Portugal and they also recieved territory in Africa and Asia
Conquistadores
conquerors
What is capitalism?
spread of commerce and manufacturing
What is the encomida system?
It allowed the government to give Indians to certain colonists in return for their promise to try and christianize them. It was slavery
What is the noche triste?
After Cortez enerted the aztec empire the Aztecs attacked driving spanish out of tetotichilan
What are mestizos?
A mix between indian and european people
What was the battle of Acoma?
Spainards cruelly abused the pueblo people.
What was poe's rebellion?
The pueblos destroyed every catholic church and killed priests and settlers because missionaries efforts to suppress native religous customs
What was the Black Legend?
Myth that conquerers tortured indians, stole their gold, and infected them with small pox
What was the Protestant Reformation?
When King Henert VIII broke with the Roman Cathlic Church. Catholics battled Protestants
Where was the dissapearing Roanoke Island?
On the coast of VG
What was premogenture?
Only eldest son was eligible to enherit land
Where was Jamestown?
VG
What was the first and second Anglo-Powhatan War?
Lord De La Warr came with order from the VG company to claim war against the indians(burned houses). Peace treatyended in marraige of Jon Rolf and Pocahontas. Second time made one less effort to dislodge the virginians
Who were the squatters?
Newcomers to NC without legal right to the soil raised tobacco and other crops with little need of slaves.
What was the Tuscarora War?
Indians attacked settlers and the europeans sold them for slavery.
What is a buffer?
Georgia served as a buffer to protect the more valuable Carolinasangainst Spainards in Florida
What was Calvinism?
The bible alone was a source of gods word
What was conversion?
reciept of god's free gift of saving grace
What was the Mayflower Compact?
an agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the regulations agreed on?
What was the Great Migration?
70,000 refugees left england
What is antinomianism?
Belief that you shouldn't bother to follow the bible because only few could be saved by god
What were Fundemental orders?
established a regime democratically controlled by the citizens
What was King Phillips War?
King Phillip had series of assults on english villages
What was the English Civil War?
England split into New England Confederation because of runaway servants
What was the Dominion of England?
imposed from london and embraced New England
What were Navigation Laws?
Sought to stitch englands overseas possessions more tightly to the mother land by not allowing American trade w/ other countries not owned by england
What was the Glorious Revolution?
Enthroned the protestant rulers of the Netherlands
What is salutary neglect?
Navigation Laws weakly enforced
What were patroon ships?
fuedal estates fronting the Hudson River and were granted to premoters who garunteed to settle 50 people on them
What were blue laws?
Prohibited Gambling
What was the headright system?
who ever paid the passage of a laborer recieved the right to aquire 50 acres of land
What was the congregational church ?
government that led logically to democracy
What is jeremiad?
new form of sermon from the prophetd of Jeremiah
What is the Half Way covenant
Admits to baptism
What is Leisers Rebellion?
fued between landowners and merchants
What was the Regulator movement?
insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affairs
What is the Molasses Act?
aimed at stopping noth american trade with the french west indies
What is Arminianism?
individuals free will determined their fate
Who are the old lights?
Orthodox Clergy men
Who are the new lights?
defending awakening of theological thinking
What is the Zenger Trial?
Newspaper currupted governer and ended in freedom of press