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Name three common myths about American history. |
The best in Europe settled in America. Columbus discovered America. Glory of the old south. |
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What is a royal colony? |
A colony controlled by the crown and appointed government by the crown. |
Virginia is a royal colony |
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What is the reason the Spanish came to America? |
God, Gold, Glory Their settlements in the new world were not permanent. |
Three G’s |
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What is Eurocentrism? |
Learning the history of the world through a European centered point of view. Europe records all of it’s history and that was the way we learned history in schools. |
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What is Ethnocentrism? |
The belief that your ethnic group is better than everyone else’s. |
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Define myth. |
Stories meant to explain the unexplainable. |
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What is a charter colony? |
A colony started by a company that receives a business charter from the crown. Little interference from the crown as far as government. |
Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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What is Calvinism? What are some beliefs? |
Started by John Calvin, Calvinists believe that each person is predestined to heaven or hell no matter what they do. Sin and crime have no separation and everyone is a sinner. |
aka Puritanism |
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What is Quakerism? What are their beliefs? |
Everyone has an inner light, letting them practice religion without a pastor or minister. Everyone is free to practice spiritual freedom and everyone is considered your equal. Peace, Equality and Freedom of Conscience. |
William Penn |
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What is a proprietary colony? |
These colonies govern themselves and have no influence from the crown. They are established and lead by a group of people who own that land. |
Pennsylvania |
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Explain the headright system? |
Someone well off pays for for other people to go to the new world under the contract that the people who go work the land for those sending them to earn that land in 3-7 years. |
Indentured servitude |
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What was the reason Virginia did so well as a colony? |
Tobacco growth was prevalent in that climate |
A crop |
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Name a few causes of the Salem witch trials |
Disputes over land: the colony’s charter had been revoked shortly before and people were scared of losing their land and not being able to survive. Fear of the other: Native American disputes and nearby raids They actually believed in witchcraft Childhood boredom Tension between factions: Putnams were a large faction that supported the church and Minister Paris. They wanted taxes to be raised to build a church in the village. The other half of the village was against them. |
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What was John Winthrop’s 3 step plan? |
1. Follow the teachings of Mica 2. Show brotherly affection and Love 3. “The eyes of everyone will be upon us.” |
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Paula Gunn Allen wrote "Spiderwoman's Sisters", and claimed Native Americans are a forgotten people. What else did she say that's notable? |
1. Humans exist in a community with all living things 2. Native Americans will soon be extinct. 3. Indian women are practically non-existent, compared to where they were before Europe came. 4. Natives are an occupied people with no military power on earth to liberate them. |
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What is the definition of genocide? How did Columbus contribute to it? |
Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people that is planned. Columbus killed people on a spiritual level. He forced the natives to convert to Catholicism and sent natives to Europe as slaves when there was little gold to get out of them. He makes himself governor and set a quota for the gold production of boys 14 and older. |
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Compare and contrast one aspect of European life to an aspect of Native life. |
Native: Land cannot be owned by anyone and must be used to survive Europe: Land is a thing to show status and wealth and is seen as something to gain and use |
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What was the indigenous response to the arrival of the Europeans? |
When Europeans first arrived, indigenous people helped them. That all changed when trading became a thing. Specifically in the south, the native people killed every settler that tried to settle there. |
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What was one of the lenses that indigenous peoples see history? |
The Creation Story. All tribes have a creation story, and disregard the Eurocentric views of how they got their. They believe their ancestors fell from the sky, came from the ground and that there is an Earth Mother that cares for all things. |
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What are the 3 sisters? Explain how they work together. |
Corn, Beans and Squash. Corn, beans and squash are planted on a mound. The corn stalk grows tall, allowing the beans to grow up the stalk. The leaves of the corn stalk provides shade to protect the squash that grows on the ground. The squash leaves provide shade over the ground to create natural mulch to sustain the three. |
Food, not people |
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What are the mourning wars? |
The wars were pretty much blood feuds and revenge driven killings that were very low casualty. Hiawatha, a human woman, united these feuding tribes to form the Iroquois Confederacy. |
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The English were late to the party when arriving to the new world. But when they got around to it, there were 5 influences as to why. Name two influences on colonialism. |
1. Rising nationalism 2. English reformation: The newly introduced Protestant church didn't get along well with the previously established Catholic church. 3. Sea Dogs: Legal pirates a privateers hired by Elizabeth I that attacked rival ships. They built the English treasury by sinking Spanish ships and taking their treasure. 4. England becomes that leading Navy in the world after the fall of the Spanish navy. 5. Mercantilism: The government control of the economy made sure that exports were greater that imports to maximize profit. A middle class emerges as a result and so does mercantile capitalism. |
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What might be a reason to leave England for the new world? |
The Enclosures Movement was a practice where they closes off public land and forced farmers to move into cities. Previously, public land was a place farmers could take their livestock to graze. With no land of their own, they venture to the new world in hopes of finding land for their farms there. |
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True or False: England was only interested in converting the natives and acquiring riches in the new world, just like the Spanish. |
False England was far more interested in permanent settlements in the new world and would come over to escape prison sentences, evade taxes, seek political power and own their own land. |
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When Cortez arrived in Tenochtitlan, who was he mistaken for? What happened when Montezuma, Aztec emperor, realized he wasn't who he was thought to be? |
The Aztecs thought Cortez was the god Quetzacoatl when he arrived. They worshiped and welcomed him until they realized he was not a god. They plan on killing him but Malinda, his lover and a Mayan born captive of the Aztecs, told him he was going to be killed. Cortez's men slaughtered lots of people in the city. |
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Who is Archie Blackowl? |
He is a native american boy who had his braids cut when he was forced to go to a school that didn't acknowledge the importance of native american symbols. |
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Who is John Trudell? |
He explained how indigenous people don't identified with racial slurs and terms like "Native American". They identified with simply being human. |
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Columbus first landed on the island ___________ and met the indigenous tribe known as the _________. |
San Salvador Taino |
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Who were the main accusers for the Salem witch trials? |
Abigail Williams, Anne Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Betty Paris |
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True of False: Practicing spells and projecting your spirit were ways you might be accused of witchcraft. |
True But those weren't the only ways you can be potentially accused. Sara Osborne was singled out for being an outcast and Tituba because she was a slave. Bridget Bishop owned a tavern and was accused of "spoiling the youth". Martha Cory was an outstanding citizen and church goer, but was still accused and hung. Simply disregarding the witch trials or missing a day of mass and even having a dead spouse could cause you to be accused and taken to court. |
Not just Hocus Pocus |
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What finally ended the Witch trials? |
John Proctor was one of the first to discredit the witch craze. He was accused and hanged, but his wife was spared. While waiting trial, Mary Easty sends a letter to governor William Phipps, begging him to stop the trials. Increase Mather's writes about the illegitimacy of spectral evidence in court. |
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What were the 5 examples of the fall and questioning of the Puritans? |
1. Salem witch trials. 2. John Winthrop's new world and A City Upon a Hill 3. Thomas Mortan -Pagan Pilgrim made his own colony and got along with the indigenous people there 4. Rodger Williams- separatist defends soul liberty 5. Anne Hutchinson accused of heresy after she decides that divine revelation can be found by anyone and salvation is free. |
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Virginia had strict laws against African Americans. Try and name one. |
Africans were listed as indentured servants upon arrival in Virginia. If two people had a child, that child had to take the status of the mother's ethnicity Baptism into Christianity will not free a slave Slave Codes: - No visiting other plantations without permission from one's master - No right to assembly - Whipping is allowed as slaves are declared as "chattel" or personal property |
Think about the "slave codes" and what lead up to them |
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True or False: Bacon's rebellion was because there was the desire of the lower class to attack the indigenous people nearby and they weren't allowed. |
False Nathaniel Bacon was a well off lad that didn't like the governor of Jamestown because he wanted into to the GreenSpring fur trade and was denied. So he rallied a bunch of the lower class to burn Jamestown to the ground. Oh, and he did get permission from the assembly to attack indigenous people cause he's just a racist jerk. |
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Philadelphia was what kind of economy? |
Staple crop economy |
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What is the original name for the Quakers? |
The religious society of friends |
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Who established the Quaker faith? |
George Fox |
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What are some differences between England's Catholic faith and the faith of the Quakers'? |
- Sacriments (baptism and communion) vs Inner Light - Creed (statement of belief) vs Shared values - Services vs meetings - Clergy Hierarchy vs Priesthood and believers - Social conformity vs Activism |
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