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10 Cards in this Set
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Berin Strait |
Land Bridge between Asia and North America now a passage from Russia to Alaska |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
Treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in the Americas by dividing them with Portugal. |
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Black Legend |
Belief that the Spanish killed, tortured, and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good. |
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Pequot War |
Conflict in 1637 when English slaughtered the natives in Conneticut Mystic River Valley |
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Encomienda |
The system that allowed the Spanish Government to give native Americans to Christianize them. |
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Roanoke Island |
Colony that disappeared in the 1580s. |
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Glorious Revolution |
Bloodless revolution that the English Parliament wanted to overthrew James II for the sake of Protestantism. |
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John Smith |
Leader of Jamestown |
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Pocahontas |
Native American woman who served as an Ambassador between the Indians and the Europeans. |
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John Rolfe |
Jamestown leader who developed a method of curing tobacco. |
