U.s. History - Chapter 1,2&3

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Lakota

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a tribe who live on the northern plains of North America. They are closely related by culture, language, and history to other tribes who together are often referred to as 'Sioux'. This includes the Dakota who live in Minnesota and eastern North and South Dakota.

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Apache

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groups includes the Navajo, Western --------, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Plains -------- (formerly Kiowa--------). ------ groups live in Oklahoma and Texas and on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.

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Hopi

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a federally recognized tribe of Native American people

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Iroquois

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(Seneca, Mohawk ,Oneida, Cayuga, Tuscarora. )------- were not one tribe, but a group of five tribes. The five tribes lived near each other and spoke similar languages. The five --------- tribes were the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.

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Iroquois Constitution

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Gayanashagowa or the Great Law of Peace of the ------- (or Haudenosaunee) Six Nations (Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, the Seneca and Tuscarora) is the oral constitution whereby the -------- Confederacy was bound together.

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Matrilineal Society

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When the family is traced back on the mothers side

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Natchez

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A city in Mississippi

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Anasazi

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---------- ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona

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Algonquin

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(Powhatan, Pequot, Narragansett, Leni Lenape (Delaware), Wampanoag- are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Today, thousands of individuals identify with various ------- peoples.

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Cliff Dwellings

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formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, with more or less excavation or with additions in the way of masonry

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Kivas

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a Hopi word used to refer to specialized round and rectangular rooms in modern Pueblos

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John Cabot

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an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer and cousin to Sir Richard Grenville. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England

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Francis Drake

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an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era

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Ferdinand Magellan

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a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano

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Hernan Cortez

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a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

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The Magna Carta

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a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215

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ECL (English Common Law)

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is that it is made by judges sitting in courts, applying legal precedent (stare decisis) to the facts before them

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Montezuma II

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the 9th emperor of the Aztecs,

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English Reformation

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a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church

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Henry VIII

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King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death

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The Spanish Armada 1588

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a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.

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New Spain

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a Spanish territory that came into existence in 1522, the year following 1521's Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire; the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was created as the Royal administration of New Spain

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New France

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the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763

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Plymouth Colony

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an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691

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The Mayflower Compact

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signed by 41 English colonists on the ship --------- on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier

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William Bradford

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an English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland, and in Plymouth Colony

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John Winthrop

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a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony

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The House of Burgesses

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first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia

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The Virginia Company of Plymouth

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an English joint stock company founded in 1606 by James I of England with the purpose of establishing settlements on the coast of North America

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Cotton Mather

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a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer

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Increase Mather

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a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Squanto

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a Patuxet man who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in what is now Massachusetts

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Powhatan

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a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia. It may also refer to the leader of those tribes, commonly referred to as Chief Powhatan

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Roanoke 1585

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The first British Colony of Roanoke, originally consisted of 100 householders, was founded in 1585

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Virginia Dare

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the first child born in the New World to English parents, Eleanor and Ananias Dare. She was named after the Virginia Colony, due to being the first Christian born there

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Malaria

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a very contagious and deadly disease that killed many indians and tribes.

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Pocahontus

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a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia

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John Rolfe

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one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia

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John Smith

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an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania

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Puritans

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English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough

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Anne Hutchinson

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a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638

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Roger Williams

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a theologist

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The Virginia Company of London

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The Virginia Company was formed with a charter from King James I in 1606. The Company was a joint stock corporation charged with the settlement of Virginia.