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42 Cards in this Set
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salutary neglect
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Period before 1763, when Britain didn't enforce Navigation Acts on the colonies
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Proclamation of 1763
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stopped colonial expansion westward
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Aztec
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the civilization that lived in the valley of Mexico in the 1200s
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Anasazi
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the civilization that introduced crops into the American midwest
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Pueblo
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the civilization that built adobe houses in the American southwest
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Iroquois
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the civilization that lived in the American northeast, hunting fish and game
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Benin
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the civilization that thrived in the Niger Delta in the 1400s
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Kongo
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the civilization that arose on the lower Congo River in the late 1400s
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Islam
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monotheistic religion that influenced West African cultures
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Christianity
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monotheistic religion that influenced Western Europe heavily
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Reformation
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the split of the Christian church, created Protestantism
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Renaissance
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a rebirth of art and scientific ideas in Europe in the 1400s
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Christopher Columbus
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Crossed Atlantic to find route to India in 1492, discovered Bahamas and North American coast
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Spain and Portugal decided to split the Western Hemisphere between them (1494)
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Columbian Exchange
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global trade of food, livestock, slaves
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conquistadors
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Spanish explorers that conquered much of the Americas
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Hernando Cortes
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pillaged Aztec empire in Mexico (1519)
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Montezuma
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Aztec emperor when Hernando Cortez arrived
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mestizo
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Spanish-Native American mixed race
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encomienda
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natives farmed land for Spanish landlords
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New Spain
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Mexico, Guatemala
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New Mexico
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Spain's northernmost holdings in the early 1600s, missions
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John Smith
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saved Jamestown from collapse by encouraging working with the native Americans
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Jamestown
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first settlement in America in what is now Virginia (1607)
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joint-stock companies
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pooled wealth of investors paid to support colony, hoping to earn profit
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indentured servants
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served a family for four to seven years in exchange for passage to America
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Puritans
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thought the Christian church kept too much Catholic ritual, reformists
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John Winthrop
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Puritan leader in Massachusetts Bay Colony
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King Philip's War
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conflict between Wampanoag chief Metacom and Puritans during 1675
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William Penn
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founded Pennsylvania
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Quakers
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Society of Friends, Protestant sect that held services w/o formal ministers
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mercantilism
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a nation could increase its power by either attaining silver and gold or by establishing favorable patterns of trade
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Navigation Acts
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-no country could trade w/ colonies unless goods traveled in Brit/colonial ships
-3/4 ship's crew either Brit or colonial -certain cash crops could only be sent to England -goods sent to Europe had to pass thru Brit ports |
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triangular trade
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trade routes btwn Europe, Africa, and America
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middle passage
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middle leg of trade triangle-- slaves
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Enlightenment
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movement of logical and scientific ideas
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Benjamin Franklin
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Enlightenment thinker: truth thru experimentation and reason during 1700s
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Great Awakening
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series of religious revivals in colonies in early 1700s
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Jonathan Edwards
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preached during GA that people needed to have a personal relationship with god
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French and Indian War
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Brits and native allies vs French and native allies in 1754 over Ohio River Valley
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William Pitt
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French and Indian War: general for brits under whom colonists began winning battles
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Pontiac
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native leader who led to capture and siege of 8 brit forts during the F&I war
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