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three sister farming | beans/corn/squash |
Incas | civilization in Peru |
Aztecs | civilization in Mexico |
middlemen | Muslims who took heavy tolls on goods travelling from the East to Europe |
caravel | Portuguese-developed ship that could sail more closely into the wind |
plantation | large-scale agriculture using slave labor |
Treaty ofTordesillas | Spain secures claim to Columbus's discovery (Portugal gets some Asian and African lands and Brazil0 |
encomienda | allowed the gov't to give Indians to colonists who promised to "Christianize" them |
noche trist | "sad night" 1520 Aztecs attack Spaniards leading to retaliation |
mestizos | people of mixed Indian and European heritage |
Battle of Acoma | Spanish severed one foot from each survivor |
Pope's Rebellion | 1680 Pueblo uprising- destroyed churches- killed 100s |
Black Legend | false concept that Spaniards tortured, butchered, took gold, and left |
Columbian Exhcnage | New world and old world products and ideas mix |
Ferdinand of Aragon | wanted to unite the kingdom of Spain |
Coronado | explored Arizona and New Mexico seeking gold |
Pizzaro | crushed the Incas of Peru |
Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish missionary appalled by encomienda system |
Cortes | 1519- Spanish who meets Aztecs |
John Cabot | explored the northeastern coast of N. America |
LaSalle | French- explored Mississippi River |
Roanoke Island | N.C. site of mysteriously vanishing settlement |
primogeniture | eldest son inherits the land |
joint-stock company | similar to modern corporations- adventurers "pool" their capital |
Jamestown, Va. | first permanent English settlement in N.America |
Act of Toleration | 1649- guaranteed toleration to all Christians |
Barbados Slave Code | gave complete control ot owners- denied rights to slaves |
squatters | live on land without legal rights |
Tuscarora War | N. Carolina- Indians were crushed and sold into slavery- many join the Iroquois |
buffer state | Georgia (protects profitable Carolinas from Spaniards in Fla.) |
Iroquois Confederacy | Mohawk/Oneida/Onondaga/Cayuga/Seneca- partner with British during Rev. War |
Sir Francis Drake | seadog- captured many Spanish ships |
Sir Walter Raleigh | organized Roanoke expedition |
James I | King of England when Jamestown founded |
John Smith | Took over in Jamestown- must work to get food |
Powhatan | chief of Indians near Jamestown |
Lord DeLaWarr | governor- meets Jamestown settlers as they're leaving- orders them back |
Pocahantas | marries John Rolfe- intermediary between English and Indians |
Lord Baltimore | founder of Maryland colony |
James Ogelthorpe | founder of Georgia colony |
Hiawatha | co-founder of Iroquois confeceracy |
Puritans | wanted to remove Catholic rituals from English Christianiity |
Separatists | Puritans who wanted to break with the Church of Englnad |
Mayflower Compact | agreement to from a gov't and submit to the will of the majority |
Massachusetts Bay Co. | brought their charter with them- prosperous |
antinomianism | claim that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation |
Fundamental Orders | constitution of Connecticut |
Navigation Laws | colonies could only trade with England |
salutary neglect | much-resented Navigation Laws were only weakly enforced |
patroonships | Dutch feudal estates granted to promoters who settled 50 people |
blue laws | laws prohibiting ungodly behavior |
William Bradford | leader of the Pilgrims |
John Winthrop | first governor of Mass. colony |
Anne Hutchinson | dissenter banished from Mass. |
Roger Williams | founder of Rhode Island |
Metacom (King Philip) | forged a pan-Indian alliance |
Charles II | King determined to "rein in" the colonies and manage them |
Duke of York | granted land in New Amsterdam |
William Penn | Quaker proprietor of Pennsylvania |
Henry Hudson | English explorere of N.Y. and Hudson River |
indentured servants | work 4-7 years for their masters in return for passage to America |
headright system | 50 acres of land for master who paid passage of a servant |
Bacon's Rebellion | Frontiersmen fed up with Indian attacks take the law into their own hands |
jeremiad | fiery sermons scolding parishioners |
middle passage | trip from Africa to New World |
Leisler's Rebellion | animosity in New York between lordly landholders and aspiring merchants |
William Berkeley | Va. governor overthrown in Bacon's Rebellion |
Anthony Johnson | free Va. black who owned slaves |
Paxton Boys | Scots-Irish armed march on Philadelphia protesting lenient policy on Indians |
triangular trade | molasses-rum-slaves |
Great Awakening | religious revival swept through colonies 1730s and 40s |
old lights | orthodox clergymen |
new lights | defended the Great Awakening |
Poor Richard's Almanac | Ben Franklin's witty sayings |
Jonathan Edwards | intellectual pastor- Great Awakening- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
Phillis Wheatley | enslaved female poet |
John Peter Zenger | newspaper printer |
John Trumbull | painter who went to London to pursue his ambitions |
George Whitefiled | itinerant English parson- great orator |