Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
28 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Polytheism
|
-Many Gods worshiped
-Native Americans |
|
|
Pantheism
|
-God is in everything
-Native Americans |
|
|
Matrilocal
|
-Residence with the wife's family or tribe in marriage
-Native Americans |
|
|
Matrilineal
|
Mother's lineage
|
|
|
Bartolomé de las Casas
|
-Dominican friar, writer, and advocate for the humane treatment of the indigenous people of the Americas
-Casas, spent years attempting to expose the abuses that the native population was subjected to under the encomienda system. -16th century Spanish world |
|
|
Virgin Soil Epidemic
|
-Epidemic resulting from the introduction of a disease into a place where it does not occur or spread naturally.
-When Europeans came to the New World, they brought with them diseases that the Native Americans were not exposed to previously |
|
|
Predestination
|
-John Calvin
-The Puritans -17th century -Lead to hope rather than despair -People were created to either go to Heaven or Hell before they were even alive |
|
|
The Middle Passage
|
-A terrible journey for most captured slaves, where one in six perished due to unsanitary
and brutal conditions. -Journey from Africa to the US |
|
|
Virginia Slave Code, 1705
|
-The first slave code
-Children inherit status of their mothers -Baptism does not alter conditions of servitude -Death of a slave during punishment is not a felony |
|
|
Deerfield, 1704
|
-Territorial battle between French and English
-Massachusetts -John and Eunice Williams -The French and Indians attack and break into houses -100 captives taken to walk from Massachusetts to Canada |
|
|
John Peter Zenger*
|
-Case in the mid-18th century about the freedom of the press
-Unflattering remarks could be printed about anyone (even the elite) so long as the statements were true. |
|
|
The Great Awakening
|
-Late 1730's
-Religious movement -Jonathan Edwards preached with emotion and fervor and people started to feel convicted -George Whitefield was another amazing preacher at this time -Second-phase of Protestant Reformation -New lights: loved they way e preached -Old lights: Felt so convicted that they would kill themselves -Slaves started to change their names to Biblical names -Some masters were saved and their slaves were set free |
|
|
The Seven Years’ War
(not on midterm??) |
-French/Indian war for empire
|
|
|
First Continental Congress
|
-September 1774
-Met in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia -56 delegates from 12 colonies -Act as a unified body -Sent a letter to the King affirming loyalty -3 objectives -Compose a statement of colonial rights -Identify British parliaments violation of those rights -Provide a plan that would convince Britain to restore those rights. -Not a bid for war but the opposite |
|
|
"Common Sense"
|
-Thomas Paine
-Proposed that ordinary people could participate in government -Instant bestseller -Very important document in the revolutionary era -During second continental congress time |
|
|
Trenton & Princeton
|
-Turned the tide of war
-Huge psychological victory for Americans -Not a huge killing victory but it showed that the Americans were capable |
|
|
Saratoga
|
-October 1777
-British outnumbered 2:1 -General Benedict Arnold was heroic -Huge British defeat: more than 6,000 British soldiers taken or killed -This battle changed everything -France and Spain become American ally -Makes British have to rethink their strategy |
|
|
Marquis de Lafayette
|
-French aristocrat and military officer
-General in the American Revolutionary War -Major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington. -Surrogate son to George Washington -Secured about 6,000 French troops for Americans |
|
|
Jamestown
|
The first english settlement
|
|
|
What was Chesapeake known for?
(Virginia and Maryland) |
Tobacco
|
|
|
Sugar Act
|
~first tax set up by the british
~tax put on sugar and molasses |
|
|
Stamp Act
|
~violent protests against this (tar & feathering)
~Townshend Act was put in place of the Stamp Act ~Tax put on lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea |
|
|
The Boston Massacre
|
~British soldiers killed 5 colonists
~The Townshend Act was repealed ~Everything was repealed except the Tea Act |
|
|
Boston Tea Party
|
~A million dollars worth of tea & 45 tons dumped into the Boston Harbor by 60 colonists
|
|
|
Intolerable Act
|
~Act put in place as a result of the Boston Tea Party
~It prohibited trade to the Boston Harbor ~Had to shut down the Boston Harbor and pay back all the tea that was lost ~They could only have town meetings once a year |
|
|
First Continental Congress
|
~carpenters hall in Philadelphia
~56 delegates from 12 colonies ~wasn't a bid for war ~Act as a unified body ~sent a letter to King George III affirming their loyalty ~the king committing treason |
|
|
Obstacles to the Revolution
|
~Colonists were very proud to be British
~Colonists didn't have a relationship with each other ~Britain was far wealthier & more populous than the colonists ~They were fighting because they thought they deserved to be treated like the British |
|
|
British response
|
~King George III felt betrayed
~sent 1,000 troops & 3 new generals (Burgoyne, Clinton & Howe) ~created the "minute men" |
