Alabama History Id Terms: Set 1

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Ulrich B Phillips

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1928 Wrote Central theme of Southern History...Racial relations determine southernness...criticized by George Tendell for leaving out black history and post civil war improvements

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Wilbur Cash

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1941...Mind of the South, written from upcountry NC

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Mind of the South

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paradoxes of lazy vs. work ethic, hedonism/calvinism, violence/hospitality...critical of white upper class...doesn't account for blacks/planters

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Clarence Cason

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Environment--hot=drawl, "lazy," enables cotton=slave....doesn't account for tourists or A/C

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Creolization

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Blending of two cultures to form one mixed one

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90 Degrees in the Shade

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1935 By Clarence Cason....environmental determination

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C. Vann Woodward

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Weight of the past...lost innocence with slavery, had started off the most powerful in the country and then declined...critical...doesn't explain present day or blacks

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Charles Joiner

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Creolization...mixed black/white culture (language, music, religion, food) defines southern. But only cultural, doesn't account for racial injustices

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A Single Southern Culture

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Mixed culture of black and white...Charles Joiner (black historian)

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Beringia

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landmass across the Bering Strait due to low water levels (glaciers)...prairie, 1000 mi, on and off during ice ages, large migrations 25-30 K years ago

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Paleo-Indians

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11,000 BC, fire/stone tools/migratory

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Archaic Tradition

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8-6000 BC, hunt SMALL game, shellfish/fish~more sedentary along rivers

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Gulf-Formational Stage

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2500-500 BC, great ceramics/decorated with paddles...river valleys/gulf coast

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Woodland Tradition

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300 BC-1000 AD, widespread communities in miss/ohio river valleys, settled (store food, cultivate, permanent housing=traditions, pottery)

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Mississippi Tradition

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700-1500 AD, complex trade/hierarchy, large pop/gov, advanced religion

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Sedentary lifestyle

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Live in one place and cultivate instead of roaming...first began in archaic-woodland traditions

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Succotash

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Corn with beans growing around...replace nutrients in soil

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Cahokia

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largest indian settlement, 20-40 K people, in Illinois

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Moundville

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2nd largest indian settlement, 1-3000 K in city with 12000 suburbs, mound building=very hierarchical, well organized society. Mounds around plaza, very religious. 1350=becomes ceremonial site with burials

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Hill Planting Method

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Build hill, then add seed with hollow stick. Communual fields

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Great Serpent

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Underworld

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balances with upperworld/yin,yang effect...?

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Tristan de Luna

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1559 colony by spain, supplies lost in a hurricane, Indians don't help b/c remember de soto, picked up by spanish ships

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Huguenots

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French protestants...try to set up colony in alabama, lasts a year

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Frontier Exchange Economy

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Indians trade furs and food for manufactured goods...initially settlers dependent on them, but trade balance shifts and they are dependent. Prefer British goods

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Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

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Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

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Massacre Island

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mouth of Mobile bay (now Dauphin Island), covered in bones when observed by the Le Moyne brothers

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Fort Louis de la Louisianne

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Established by the Le moyne brothers with the surrounding city of mobile, french settlement, well equipped

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Cassette/Pelican girls

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girls shipped over from france to Fort Louis to raise population

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Yamassee War

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war b/w Yamassee/Creek indians and English traders from SC who were doing poor trade deals...Yamassees wiped out, French ally with Alibamus--access to central Alabama, Fort Taloosa

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Fort Toulousa

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Fort established in central alabama when french and alibamus indians ally in response to yamassee war. Widens French trading network and starts to encroach on english territory

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Code Noir

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French slave code...families cannot be separated, children cannot be sold from parents, baptized catholic

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French and Indian War

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French/British War and indian allies, extension of 7 yrs war in europe. French lose

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Treaty of Paris 1763

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French lose all territory, GB gets Florida and land west to the mississippi. Spain gets west of Mississippi and louisiana/no area , French keep sugar island of Guadalupe

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Proclamation of 1763

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King George III limits spending by forbidding settlement west of Appalachians or south of 31st parallel (exc. Mobile)

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Filibustering

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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