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43 Cards in this Set
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El Camino Real
-The Royal Road |
Stretched for more than 600 miles in California
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What city is the oldest in the US today?
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St. Augustine
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Why hadn't the French settled in North America?
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1. Civil Wars
2. Under King Louis XIV, peaceful times and no desire to leave. |
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Presidio means?
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Spanish Fort
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How were the Indians mistreated?
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1. Had to give up their traditions.
2. Had to work against their will. |
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Why did the Spanish build presidios?
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To protect them from English Pirates and Indians
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Fundamental Orders
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first written system of Government in America
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Scarce means?
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not plentiful
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Who were the only people able to vote?
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Men
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What is the largest presido?
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St. Augustine
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Anne Hutchinson did what?
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Questioned Purtian teachings and they made her leave
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What is a word for long lasting?
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Permanent
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What is a Charter?
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a document that gives a person or groups of people permission to take action
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Hacienda are?
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Large estates (very much like plantations
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What is Portage?
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method of transportation in which boat is light weight and can be carried
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Why was St. Augustine important to the Spanish?
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It served as their military Headquarters
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Harvard College
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First college in US named after John Harvard because he donated 400 books (books were very rare and as valuable as money
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Most important livestock
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cattle and sheep
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How did the Indians help the Spanish?
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1. taught them how to make adobe houses.
2. how to use herbs as medicines. |
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What is the land that serves as a barrier?
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Buffer
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Code Noir Black Code
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laws that restricted the ways in which Africans in Louisiana could live
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Who are the most famous missionaries?
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Franciscans
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What famous Franciscan missionary built 21 missions in California?
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Father Junipero Serra
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John Endecott
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Leader of the Puritans, who came to settle Boston, Mass. Their chief town
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Proprietory Colony is what?
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King gives ownership to one person
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Who were Marquette and Joliet?
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French explorerd the Mississippi and realized that it could not be the NW Passage because the river flowed South
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Who was LaSalle?
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French explorer who reached the mouth of the Mississippi River
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What was the most important part of Puritan life?
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Religion
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What did the French learn from the Indians?
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How to build canoes to go over rough and shallow rivers
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Self-sufficient means?
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can raise their own food and live off their land
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John Law
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Louisiana's proprietor, or owner
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Tributaries
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branch rivers
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What did Puritans want everyone to be able to do?
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Read the Bible
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How did Bienville and Iberville know that they had reached the Mississippi River?
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Mongoulacha, the Indian leader was wearing a French coat and had a letter from LaSalle
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What is a Royal Colony?
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King would rule colony
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New England
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Puritans settled here. came because they wanted to make their religion more "pure"
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Missionaries
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people who tried to teach their religion to others
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How did the spanish help the Indians?
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1. Taught them how to use a plow.
2. How to use tools that would help them. |
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Villiages of 50 or more families had a school Smaller towns had to school their children in homes.
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True
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Roger Williams
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Left Puritans because he felt only Indians had the right to give away land, so he left
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New Orleans
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first Louisiana capital
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King Phillip's War
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(King Phillip was the name given to the Wampanoag Chief) war was over land ownership; Indians felt no one could own land; they felt they shared it with the English
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No school vacations why?
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Waste of "God's precious time" only went to school for 10-12 weeks rest of the time had to work in home or the fields
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