Us History Pre 1492 - 1763

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Cahokia

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East St. Louis; Capitol of Mississippian's

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Tenochtitlan

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Aztec Empire; Located in the valley of Mexico

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Pre-1942 America

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Paleo Indians (Bering Straight); Mississippian Society (Spiro Mounds, Cahokia); The Vikings (Vinland)

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Mound-Builders

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Built mounds and other earthworks. Ex: Cahokia

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Hernando Cortes

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Conquered Aztec Empire

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John Cabot

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Found Newfoundland, Canada

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Founded the "lost colony" of Roanoke

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Columbian Exchange

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Exchange of animal, plants, culture (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas

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Hernando De Soto

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Explored Southeastern US

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Francisco Coronado

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Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States

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Moctezuma

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Aztec emperor

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Conquistadors

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Spanish explorers

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God, Glory, Gold

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Motivation of Spanish conquistadors

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Roanoke

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First English settlement in America

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Puritanism

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Protestants who sought to 'purify' the Church of England of all traces of Catholicism

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Sir Francis Drake

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The first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada

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Jamestown

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First permanent English settlement in America

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William Bradford

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Plymouth Governor

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Massachusetts Bay Company

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English settlement on the east coast of North America; Boston and Salem

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Anne Hutchinson

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Banished from Boston for her religious views

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John Winthrop

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Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; "City upon a hill."

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Quakers

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Religious Society of Friends: a Christian sect founded by George Fox

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Roger Williams

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Co-founder of Rhode Island and seperatist

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Indentured Servents

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under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities

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Samuel de Champlain

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established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec

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Tobacco

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Main source of income for early settlers

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Jesuits

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The Society of Jesus; Form of Catholicism

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Pequot Massacre

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Many died; people went on killing rampage.

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Smallpox

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Killed many Indians; settlers brought it over

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William Penn

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Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania