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Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - ✔️ -Agriculturally
focused groups that developed powerful and complex societies
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains -
✔️ - Migratory because of limited resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard
- ✔️ -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often creating
lasting settlements
Hernan Cortes - ✔️ Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and
conquered the aztecs
- from spain
Hernando de Soto - ✔️ -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for - ✔️
gold and land
The Columbian Exchange - ✔️ The exchange of plants, animals,
diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world
following Columbus's voyages.
The Treaty of Tordesillas - ✔️ A 1494 agreement between Portugal and
Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line
in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the
east of the line would belong to Portugal.
St. Augustine - ✔️ -1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
,joint-stock company - ✔️ A company made up of a group of
shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and
receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
James Edward Oglethorpe - ✔️ The leader of English Parliament who
founded the Georgia colony
James Wright - ✔️ Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
Jamestown - ✔️ -First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
Why did colonists come to the New World? - ✔️ Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
Original Trustees of Ga were provided what - ✔️ 50 acres , free passage,
provisions for 1 yr
William Penn - ✔️ -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
Quakers - ✔️ -believed human religious institutions were largey
unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form God and placed little
importance on the Bible
-pacifists and declined to show customary deference to their alleged social
superiors
-their aggressiveness in denouncing established institutions brought them
trouble in both britain and america
-opposed slavery and favored decent treatment of Native Americans
-elements of the culture would play a role in shaping the characterization of a
United States that valued independence and social equality
What country claimed Quebec? - ✔️ The French
,French Colonization in the New World - ✔️ French and Dutch Colonies
in the new world usually relied on cooperation with native peoples instead of
extensive settlement and force in contrast to the spanish and british
Dutch Colonization in the New World - ✔️ -first colonies functioned
more as trading outposts than settlements
-the Dutch commissioned an expedition by English explorer Henry Hudson to
North America
-Hudson failed in his search for a Northwest Passage, but his reports of
abundant resources created interest among Dutch merchants
-The Dutch West India Company was chartered to develop colonies in North
America
-the company tried to attract immigrants with land grants, and a diverse
group of European settlers slowly began to arrive
-its most important settlement was New Amsterdam, which became a center
for trade
-usually relied on cooperation with native peoples instead of extensive
settlement and force, in contrast to the Spanish and British
Types of New British Colonies in the New World - ✔️ -Charter Colony:
colonist were members of a corp
-Royal Colony: governor selected by King
-Proprietary colonies: owned by individuals
Characteristics of New England Colonies: - ✔️ Founded primarily by
Puritans, that wanted a group of like-minded individuals; close-knit, longer
life expectancies; mixed economy of farming and trade
What is the headright system? - ✔️ The headright system is when a
landowner would pay for an individual's passage from England to America.
The landowner would receive 50 acres of land and that same individual to
work the land.
Who settled land west of the Mississippi River
A. The French
B. The Dutch
C. The Spanish
D. The British - ✔️ A. The French
, Who settled land in New York - ✔️ The Dutch along Hudson River later
colonized New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
Main cash crop of Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland) - ✔️
Tobacco
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ -
✔️ wine/silk and rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
King Phillip's War - ✔️ Most Indians lost in New England
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants
of New England versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies in
1675-78
Bacon's Rebellion - ✔️ -armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led
by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Whiskey Rebellion - ✔️ In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled
against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were
killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the
offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the
rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the
Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast
to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal
with Shay's Rebellion.
Indentured Servitude - ✔️ A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to
work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an
overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most
indentured laborers were Asians.
Bacon's Rebellion made the practice seem riskier to planters and owners
English Puritanism - ✔️ 1500s and 1600s
*Movement by those who wished to reform the Church of England to be more
in line with their ideology
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