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Mesoamerica |
The birthplace of agriculture in North America. It extended from Central Mexico into Central America.
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Birthplace of...
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Mayans
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Created the most advanced Writing and Calendar systems of their time. They reigned until the fall of Teotihuacan in 900 AD.
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Most advanced what? |
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Protestant Reformation
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A movement started by Martin Luther that opened a debate against some of the church practices of the Catholic Church
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Catholic Church
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John Calvin
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A religious leader who advanced the theory of pre-destination.
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Advanced the theory of?
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Christopher Columbus
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Recieved financial support from Spain to find a route to Asia by sailing west. After sailing 33 days, he landed on the present day Bahamas.
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Sailed to find a route to?
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Ponce de Leon
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1st Spainard to land on what is now the United States mainland. He discovered Florida for Spain.
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1st Spainard to?
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Hernan Cortes
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Leader of a group of conquistadors who defeated the Aztecs.
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Defeated who?
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Leader of a group of conquistadors who defeated the Incas.
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Defeated who?
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Columbian Exchange
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Biological consequences of contact and the exchange of livestock and plants that took place when Europeans reached Native American lands in the New World.
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Biological consequences of...
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Jacques Cartier
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1st French explorer to sail the St. Lawrence River searching for the Northwest passage to Asia.
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1st French explorer to what?
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Elizabeth I
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The queen who finally embraced the Protestant movement and cleared the way for English explorers to sail for the New World.
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Finally embraced...
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"Lost Colony"
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Name for the ill-fated 2nd colony developed in Roanoke, Virgina. No sign of survivors were ever found.
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Name for...
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Virgina Dare
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1st English child born in America.
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1st what?
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Samuel de Champlain
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French explorer who sailed along the St. Lawrence River who helped establish villages at Trois-Rivieres and in Montreal.
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Helped establish...
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Filles de Roi
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King's daughters that were to be sent to New France to help speed up the slow population growth.
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Sent to New France to do what?
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Robert Sieur de La Salle
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French explorer who sailed along the Mississippi River and claimed all the lands along the river for France and named it Louisiana.
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Claimed all the lands for who?
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West India Company
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Established Fort Orange as the first Dutch Village in the New World.
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Established this as first Dutch Village.
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Peter Minuit
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Purchases Manhattan from Native Americans for the Dutch.
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Purchases what for the Dutch.
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London Company
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A joint-stock company that was given a charter for land that is now Virginia.
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Also called Virginia Company.
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Plymouth Company
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A joint-stock company that received a charter for land in what is now Massachusetts.
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Recieved a charter for who?
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Joint-Stock Company
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A company where shares are sold to investors who are financing exploration into the New World.
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Investors who finance what?
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House of Burgesses
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The first self-government established in the New World.
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First what?
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John Rolfe
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Husband of Pocahontas. Helped establish tobacco industry in Virginia.
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Husband of...
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George Calvert
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Recieved 10,000,000 acres in a land grant from King Charles I. Establishes Maryland.
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10,000,000 acres
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Proprietary Colony
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A colony that is solely owned by one man or family.
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Sole Ownership
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Act for Religious toleration
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1st legislative act that ensures Freedom of Worship in the New World.
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Freedom of...
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Conversion
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Transforming experience that occurred when Puritans felt stirrings in their souls and they might be chosen to eternal grace.
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Puritans felt what?
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Separatists
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Puritans who believed they should separate from the Angelican Church for their own good.
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Seperation from what church?
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Mayflower Compact
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A written document that established that those who were to establish in the Plymouth colony would go along with those in the majority.
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If you establish in the Plymouth colony...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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A joint-stock enterprise led by John Winthrop which was better prepared to survive in the New World.
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Better prepared for what?
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Pequot War
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Fought between members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and natives in the Conneticut River Valley. English won.
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Fought between these English and natives.
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Roger Williams
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Founder of Rhode Island. Purchased land from the Narragansett tribe after escaping punishment in Massachusetts.
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Founder of what state?
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Anne Hutchinson
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Religious leader who was tried for sedation and removed from Massachusetts. Later brings her teachings to Rhode Island.
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Tried for what and removed from where?
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Slave Codes
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Laws established declaring that slavery is a lifelong condition that passes on from slave parents to their children.
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Slavery is a lifelong condition that...
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William Penn
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Recieved a large land grant as repayment of a debt owed to his father by the crown of England. Wanted to create a colony for the Quakers.
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Repayment of a debt.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch Governer who surrenders New Netherland to James.
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Surrenders to who?
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Encomienda
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Form of labor control practiced by the Spainards where colonists were granted the right to collect tribute from natives living on a specific piece of land.
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Granted right to collect what?
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Repartimiento
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Form of labor utilized by the Spainards that allowed colonists to "draft" natives for public projects.
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Allowed colonists to do what?
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The Great League of Peace and Power
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Group of five separate nations (Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas). First a religious organization, then became powerful alliance for military action.
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Also knows as Iroquois Confederation
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King Phillip's War
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The deadliest war in terms of proportion of casualties to total population.
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Why the deadliest?
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Began as war against natives, eventually turns into a revolt of settlers against their colonial authorities.
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Felt they only looked after the big tobacco companies.
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Repartimiento
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Form of labor utilized by the Spainards that allowed colonists to "draft" natives for public projects.
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Allowed colonists to do what?
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Pueblo Revolt
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Led by Pope, where every Spanish building was either destoryed or damaged in the New Mexico area. Eventually unsuccessful.
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What was destroyed?
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Middle Passage
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A six to eight week ocean voyage that slaves endured once they were forcefully removed from Africa
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Ocean Voyage
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Treaty of Paris
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Formally ended the French and Indian War
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Ended what war?
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French and Indian War
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Finally settled England as the dominant force in North America.
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Settled England as what?
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Albany Plan of Union
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Union to coordinate colonial defense, levy taxes, and regulate Indian affairs.
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Union to do three things...
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Treaty of Lancaster
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Sold trade rights to Virginia land speculators to trade at the Forks of the Ohio Valley.
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Sold trade rights to who?
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Grand Settlement of 1701
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Iroquois nation pledge neutrality in regards to the French and English empires.
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Neutrality in regards to what?
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Glorious Revolution
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King James removed from power by William the Orange. Ensured England would remain Protestant.
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Who was removed?
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Dominion of New England
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Control of 8 previously separated colonies would come under single control of the crown.
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Come under single control.
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Great Awakening
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Spiritual revival that spread through the colonies. Lasted for 30 years.
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Halfway Covenant
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Allowed adults to have their own children baptized in the Church.
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Allowed adults to do what?
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Enumerated Products
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Goods produced that could only be shipped to England/English colony.
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Only be shipped to where?
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Mercantilism
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Governmental intervention in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth.
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Intervention for what?
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Redemptioner System
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Alternative to indentured servant system where immigrants promised to repay costs of trip.
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Alternative to what?
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Stono Rebellion
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Largest slave uprising where 20 or so slaves stole arms and attacked white troops on their search for freedom in Florida.
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What uprising?
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