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54 Cards in this Set
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Olmecs
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group considered to be "mother culture" of Mesoamerica and first to develop glyphic writing
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Mayas
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Ancient native american group known for its accomplishments in math and astronomy
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Mesoamerica
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region that stretches from central Mexico to present day Nicaragua
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Artifacts
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tools and other objects that humans made that give clues about who ancient people were and how they lived
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Aztecs
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Mesoamerican group was a fierce warrior nation, wealthy due to gold deposits nearby, capital Tenochtitlan begun on swampy island
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Incas
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Located in the Andes mountains, terraced land for to farm, constructed great stone roads to knit empire together
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Eskimos
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Group primary sources of food were fish, seal, and whale. Lived in igloos.
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Plains
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Nomadic, developed sign language and used smoke signals
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California
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Native American group that hunted and gathered, were semi-nomadic and lived in brush covered dwellings
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Northeastern Woodlands
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Lived in longhouses and cultivated 60 varieties of beans and 20 varieties of squash
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Southwestern
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Descended from Anasazi, lived in sun dried brick homes and developed irrigation system
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Northwestern
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Native American group that lived in post and plank houses, relied on salmon and carved totem poles
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Hohokam
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American Southwest area with little rain near Arizona, developed canal system of irrigation, raised corn, beans squash, traded widely
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Anasazi
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Lived where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Utah now meet, mainly farmers who traded widely
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Hopewell
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Mound builder society in Midwest, grew corn, large trade network, mounds served as burial sites
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Mississippians
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Mound builder society, built first cities in North America
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Southeastern
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Farmers, traced family ties through women(matrilineal)
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Joint Stock Company
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a way to finance a colony, backed by investors, people put money into a project to earn money, investors split any profits and divided losses
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Renaissance
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Man's rebirth of curiosity with life
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Mercantilism
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economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and trading where exports outnumber imports
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House of Burgesses
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created in 1619, became the first representative assembly in the American colonies
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Magellan
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Portuguese sailor, set out from Spain went around South America, to Pacific Ocean, his crew made it back to Spain, first to sail around the world
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Bartholomeu Dias
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First Portuguese sailor to sail around the southern tip of Africa
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Italian sailor who set out to find a sea route to Asia, realized land he saw on voyage was not Asia, a German mapmaker named continent after him
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Prince Henry
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Leader of Portugal who established a school for navigation and geography
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Conquistador
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Spanish military leaders who led the exploration and conquest of the Americas in the 1500's.
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Colombian Exchange
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the movement of living things(plants, animals, disease) and ideas from one hemisphere to the other hemisphere
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Attempted to sponsor two unsuccessful English Settlements on Roanoke Island
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Plymouth
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Area off Cape Cod on Massachusetts coast where Mayflower landed and Pilgrims settled.
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Headright System
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John Smith
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English soldier who forced the first settlers at Jamestown to work in order to survive
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tobacco
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John Rolfe developed a high grade version of this crop that the colonists learned to grow quickly and became popular in England
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Pilgrims
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a separatists group asked to settle in America as a "distinct body by themselves". They landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts to settle.
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naval stores
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North Carolina colony is known for this
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Elected Assemblies
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1619 House of Burgesses became first of these after colonists became annoyed by strict rule of the Governor of VA
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Religious Freedom
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The colony of Rhode Island guaranteed the right to practice religion in any way they they choose
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Quakers
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Believed all people could live in peace and harmony settled in Pennsylvania where all had religious freedom, treated Native Americans fairly
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Puritan colony where only male church members could vote or hold office, elected representatives to a law making body
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cash crop
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a crop raised primarily for sale
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Navigation Acts
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England wanted part of the trading profits of New England, they passed these acts to restrict colonial trade, colonists ignored them
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Bacon's Rebellion
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landless settlers in Va complained of taxes and favoritism towards large land owners and demanded war against Native Americans to seize land
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Proclamation of 1763
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forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians, due to high cost to defend western lands
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Triangular Trade
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trade developed between Northern Colonies, Africa and the West Indies where slaves were sold
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Stamp Act
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Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. Fell directly on all colonists.
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Boston Tea Party
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Protest against the Tea Act by Sons of Liberty dumping hundreds of chests of Tea into the Boston Harbor
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Intolerable Acts
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Parliament passed laws to punish the Ma. colony for tea party & to serve as a warning to them, called coercive acts but colonists called them this
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militia
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a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community
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Bacon's Rebellion
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landless settlers in Va complained of taxes and favoritism towards large land owners and demanded war against Native Americans to seize land
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Proclamation of 1763
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forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians, due to high cost to defend western lands
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Triangular Trade
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trade developed between Northern Colonies, Africa and the West Indies where slaves were sold
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Stamp Act
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Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. Fell directly on all colonists.
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Boston Tea Party
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Protest against the Tea Act by Sons of Liberty dumping hundreds of chests of Tea into the Boston Harbor
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Intolerable Acts
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Parliament passed laws to punish the Ma. colony for tea party & to serve as a warning to them, called coercive acts but colonists called them this
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militia
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a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community
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