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Propaganda |
True, false, or partially true speeches, pamphlets, commercials, etc. to persuade a person o believe or act in a certain way. |
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Sophisticated central and south american civilizations |
Incas (Peru), Mayans (Central America), Aztecs (Mexico) |
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Three-sister farming |
Farming technique where they grew corn and beans with squash on top to hold in moisture and keep predators away. |
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Groups that used three-sister farming |
Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw |
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First Europeans to set eyes on Americas |
Scandinavians 1000 CE |
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Seeds of Change |
Horses, disease, sugar cane, corn, potatoes |
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Mercantilism |
Colonies exist to benefit the mother country. Produce what parent country needs and must purchase everything from parent country so parent country always benefits |
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Spanish explorer that conquered Mexico |
Cortes by pretending to be peacefully passing through until he was let in and he attacked he also in diseases to get him through |
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First permanent Spanish settlement |
Saint Augustine 1565 - 2015 |
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Walter Raleigh's attempted settlement |
Roanoke. failed due to unwise decisions |
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First permanent English settlement |
Jamestown Virginia 1607 |
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Things that kept the English population small in Jamestown |
Hunger, disease, and raids by Native Americans |
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Starving time |
Time when food was scarce in Virginia 1609. Cause death of 400 people due to starvation |
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First elected Legislative Assembly in North America |
House of Burgesses |
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James Oglethorpe Colony used as human barricade |
The charity colony in Georgia |
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Founder of Maryland |
Lord Baltimore1634 |
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Predominant religion in Maryland |
Catholicism |
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Three typical geographical groupings of the colonies |
New England: rocky terrain, shipbuilding, fishing, fur trading, cold climate, north. Bread colonies: grain, fields, fertile soil, streams, middle. Plantation colonies: deep streams, variety of crops, large farms, south. |
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Puritans and separatists difference |
Separatist are dedicated Puritans that bad to break away from Church of England when they started tearing Saints and Damned in the pews |
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Puritans |
Religious group that felt everyone should read only to interpret the Bible and ministers needed university level training |
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Calvinism/ Puritan |
Religious group believing that God predestined some people for salvation |
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Antinomianism |
Against the law |
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3 geographic locations during the Great Migration in 1630 |
Massachusetts, England, West Indies. |
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Halfway covenant |
Children of non members could be baptized but could not take Commun in order to increase membership |
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Cause of Salem Witchcraft hysteria |
Unsettled social conditions |
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FFV |
First families of Virginia examples: Washington's, Lee's, Fitzhugh's |
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Middle Passage |
The the route slaves we're carried through on the ocean horrible conditions slaves got diseases broken bones or death |
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African diaspora |
The scattering of Africans over the New World |
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Frontiersmen |
Men that supported bacons rebellion because they felt they were attacked |
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Germans |
Group of people who settled the region known as Pennsylvania Dutch |
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Yeoman farming |
The occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans |
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18th century backbone of the colonies |
Yeoman farmers |
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Colonial artists |
John singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale, John Trumbull, Thomas Gainsborough |
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Things used in some locations to determine a person's eligibility to vote |
Class, religion, gender and skin tone, property. |
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Things determining a person's education in colonial America |
Gender, social class and race, geographic region, religion. |
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Most ethnically diverse and least ethnically diverse colonies |
Bread colonies, northern colonies |
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Royal |
Type of government in most colonies by 1775 |
