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Who was Hernando Cortes?
-Spainard
-led army into America to claim for Spain
--set off to conquer Aztecs
Who were the conquistadors?
-explorers
-wanted lands and gold (Carribbean)
What is the story of Cortes and the Aztecs?
They thoughts he was a god, but then successfully rebelled. But then Cortes returned and won
What was New Spain?
New colony by Cortes, capital=Mexico city
What is a mestizo?
-mixed Spanish and Native American
-Marriage between pennisulores and native women
What is the encomienda system?
System that forced natives into working for the Spanish
What did the Catholic missionaries try to do to the Natives?
Convert them to Christianity and impose Spanish culture
TERMS
TERMS
Pope's Rebellion
-1680
-Pope=Native American leader
-Led an organized uprising against the Spanish, destroying churches, priests
-B/c the priest punished Pope for his worship practices
-Drove Spanards back into New Spain, ex. of successeful revolution
Headright system
-1620s
-Virginia Company
-Anyone who payed for a passage (or someone else's) received 50 acres
-Objective to get more settlers
-Succeeded in more settlers
-Jamestown
Bacon's rebellion
-Nathaniel Bacon
-Bacon marched on Jamestown and took over to right Natives, set fire to town, but died and Berkeley took over again
-1670s
-Virginia
-Bacon wanted more say for the poor, but not Natives
-Actually got more say for poor
Plymouth Colony
-Founded by Puritans
-Fled from England for Puritan tolerance
-1620
-In Massachutes
-To escape religious persection, safe haven for Separtists
King Phillip's War
-Indians vs. colonists
-Hit and run by Natives, were winning but disease killed them
-1675
-B/c Puritans were forcing them out of their lands
-Natives had an alliance, shows how powerful natives could be
Navigation Acts
-Passed by Parliament
-Series of laws restricting colonial trade
-1651
-In America
-So England could have more $
-Made colonists angry b/c they intruded
Salutary neglect
-n/a
-England relaxed its enforcement of laws in return for $
-1650s
-America
-B/c they still got $ so they didn't care that the colonists were breaking laws
-It soon changed (angered colonists) in the Rev. War
Middle Passage
-Slaves
-Voyage that brought Africans to North America
-1750s and on
-Ships
-Conditions were horrible, not a lot surrived the journey
-In-humanness of slavery
Stono Rebellion
-Slaves
-Uprising, slaves gathered and marched inviting slaves to join
-1739
-Charles Town
-Wanted freedom
-Resulting in tightening of slave laws
Witchcraft trials
-Salem girls
-Many people charged of witchcraft b/c of strong religious belief
-1690s
-Salem Mass
-Fear in town
-Amazing that ppl could be killed for being a "witch"
The Great Awakening
-n/a
-Religious revival, brought colonists into organized churches
-1730s-40s
-Religious leaders thought colonists were loosing faith
-Put people in churches, created new churches and colleges (higher education)
Proclamation of 1763
-British gov.
-Banned all settlement west of Appalachians
-1763....
-To avoid conflicts w/ Natives
-British gov. stepped in, and angers colonists
Townshend Acts
-Parliament
-taxes on imported materials from Brit
-1767
-America
-B/c they needed $ from French and Indian war
-Angered colonists, b/c they didn't really want to fight the war so why should they have to pay for it
Stamp Act
-Parliament
-Colonists had to get special stamped paper for legal docs, license, ect.
-1765
-America
-$ to pay for French and Indian War
-Angered colonists
Boston Massacre
-British attack colonists
-British open fire on colonists
-1770
-Taunted guards
-British cruel to colonists, so they were mad
Common Sense
-Thomas Paine
-Anonymous pamphlet attacking King George
-1775
-America
-He called for an Independant Nation
-Inspired people to want to be independant
Battle of Saratoga
-Burgoyne and Gates
-American troops surrounded Brits at Saratoga and they surrender
-1777
-Saratoga
-To win war
-Changed Britsih war strategy, and earned Americans the support of the French
Battle of Yorktown
-Lafayette and Cornwallis
-French navy defeats British at sea, Cornwallis surrenders
-1780
-To win war
-Official surrender for Americans
Treaty of Paris 1783
-British and Americans
-Confirmed for US independence, and set boundries for new nation
-1783
-B/c they won the war
-Official win and start of new nation
Townshend Acts
-Parliament
-taxes on imported materials from Brit
-1767
-America
-B/c they needed $ from French and Indian war
-Angered colonists, b/c they didn't really want to fight the war so why should they have to pay for it
Stamp Act
-Parliament
-Colonists had to get special stamped paper for legal docs, license, ect.
-1765
-America
-$ to pay for French and Indian War
-Angered colonists
Boston Massacre
-British attack colonists
-British open fire on colonists
-1770
-Taunted guards
-British cruel to colonists, so they were mad
Common Sense
-Thomas Paine
-Anonymous pamphlet attacking King George
-1775
-America
-He called for an Independant Nation
-Inspired people to want to be independant
Battle of Saratoga
-Burgoyne and Gates
-American troops surrounded Brits at Saratoga and they surrender
-1777
-Saratoga
-To win war
-Changed Britsih war strategy, and earned Americans the support of the French
Battle of Yorktown
-Lafayette and Cornwallis
-French navy defeats British at sea, Cornwallis surrenders
-1780
-To win war
-Official surrender for Americans
Treaty of Paris 1783
-British and Americans
-Confirmed for US independence, and set boundries for new nation
-1783
-B/c they won the war
-Official win and start of new nation