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5171464000Europe in the Middle (Dark) AgesLimited exchange of ideas Curiosity and new learning de-emphasized Superstition predominated Travel limited0
5171464001Crusade effectsProducts of Middle East/Far East interests (gold, spices, silver) Cheaper ways of getting products Transportation: water vs land1
5171464002Treaty of TordesillasSpain vs Portugal2
5171464003Materialism- personal wealth Glory- personal fame Religion- conversion of the "heathens" Nationalism- promoting wealth/power of a nation Scientific CuriosityAge of Exploration Motivation3
5171464004New Products Loss of Land Loss of Liberty Diminishing of Culture Diminishing of Numbers (90% death rate) DiseaseEuropean colonization affecting Native Culture4
5171464005Industrial RevolutionMore people wanting more goods (3 times more gold than in Europe) caused inflation because there was more money in people's hands5
5171464006Corn, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, potatoesTypes of food from the New World6
5171464007Vitamins, anesthetics for surgery, muscle relaxants, poison treatmentTypes of Medicine from the New World7
5171464008Joint-stock colonyGranted to private companies in the hopes of creating profits from colonization8
5171464009Proprietary colonyLand granted to individuals for the purpose of creating colonies; the individuals had the right then to grant land to whomever they chose9
5171464010Royal colonyHeaded by the English crown/government itself10
5171464011VirginiaFirst successful English colony in the New World11
5171464012Joint stockWhat type of colony was granted to the Virginia Company of London?12
5171464013Jamestown 1607First settlement established on James River13
5171464014Climate and Environment Profit Dilemma Predominantly maleDisadvantages of Jamestown14
5171464015Commanded the colony after most settlers didn't survive the first winterWhat did Captain John Smith do?15
5171464016Powhatan IndiansOriginal inhabitants of the James River area (taught settlers how to grow corn)16
5171464017The Starving TimeTime during winter 1609-1610 when population went from 450 to 60 and people were reduced to eating rats, leather and each other17
5171464018Bering Strait in Alaska (approximately 11,000 years ago)During early migration humans used______18
5171464019Stone tools & spearsUsed for hunting to persue large animals19
5171464020Lord de la WarrIn 1609 a man was made the leader of the VA colony and sent hundreds of new settlers and soldiers to the colonies with fresh supplies and also put a new policy plan for Natives to wipe them out of the James River area (Which was mostly achieved by 1624).20
5171464021John RolfeAround 1613 this man would develop a process for curing tobacco that would remove most of its bitterness, making it much more pleasant to smoke (Also would marry Pocahontas)21
5171464022Indentured servitudeMost common source of labor in the early VA colony22
5171464023Indentured servantsomeone whose passage to the colonies was paid for in turn for an agreement to be a source of labor for an agreed period of time (usually 5-7 years)23
5171464024Headright Systemfor every person who paid for someone to come to VA (even if it was himself) that individual, the one that paid, would receive 50 acres of land24
5171464025Headright Systema great advantage for the wealthy as it allowed them to gain very large estates of land (they paid for a bunch of servants to come over); however, the small farmers were pushed to the worst lands while the large landowners had first dibs on the best lands25
5171464026the Virginian House of Burgesses 1619With pressures being placed on the royal governors the VA settlers were granted a representative assembly and was used to work with the governor in running the colony26
5171464027- It would pass its own laws without consulting the governor and act as a sovereign power - It would withhold the governor's pay in order to force him to make the decisions that it wantedThe House of Burgesses would remain in constant conflict with the royal governor...27
5171464028it was dissolved and made into a royal colonyWhat happened to the Virginia Company of London in 1624?28
5171464029MarylandIn 1634 a large area of land just north of Virginia, headed by Lord Baltimore29
5171464030The Calvert familyWho did the king grant Maryland to?30
5171464031Lord Baltimorea Catholic and had long dreamed of a place where English Catholics could worship without fear of prosecution from Protestants31
5171464032Catholic havenWhat was Maryland supposed to be?32
5171464033granted large estates to wealthy English Catholic families, (but many of his settlers were Protestant freemen from Virginia and Protestant indentured servants from England and that caused tension between Catholics and Protestants)How did Lord Baltimore get settlers to Maryland?33
5171464034Maryland Act of TolerationTo solve growing religious disputes, in 1649 this was passed in the Maryland Assembly34
5171464035Granted religious freedom to all ChristiansWhat did the Maryland Act of Toleration do?35
5171464036tobaccoWhat did Maryland and Virginia depend on?36
5171464037as familiesHow did New England Puritans migrate to America?37
5171464038more dispersed population, purer water, & a cooler climate; people shared common valuesWhy did colonists in New England live longer? Why was marriage easy?38
5171464039fundamental family responsibility; towns began to create elementary schools funded with local taxes:How did New England towns regard education?39
5171464040New EnglandWho had the highest literacy rate in America?40
5171464041HarvardIn 1638 what was America's first college?41
5171464042Patriarchal Societythe father was the boss of the family, and society in general and the female was a subservient obedient wife/loving mother42
5171464043endured a strict upbringing through corporal punishment, plentiful chores, and apprenticeships; public educationWhat were the lives of children like in New England?43
5171464044wives & mothers devout church members ran small-scale farms couldn't own/sell property divorce was difficult Did what God ordainedHow did women contribute to society in the colonial era?44
5171464045religion and state were often one and the sameSince most New England colonies were founded on a belief that the colony existed through a 'covenant' with God...45
5171464046Puritan societyLocal town governments ensured the good order of...46
5171464047one's membership in the local churchSuffrage rights and political opportunities commonly depended on what?47
5171464048Puritansfounders of the New England colonies with strict beliefs in predestination and 'visible sainthood'48
5171464049Subsequent generations began losing touch with the churchGrowing education and secularization eroded Puritan beliefs and...49
5171464050Halfway CovenantMembers of the Puritan church who did not visibly attest to their salvation could become 'halfway saints'50
5171464051to become full saints in the Puritan churchThe children of halfway saints would be allowed51
5171464052shipping manufactured rum other goods received from Southern colonies and the Indies, to Africa to be exchanged for slavesWhat did New England colonies profit from in the Triangular Trade?52
5171464053Top: Local gentry of religiously devout families guided town meetings Middle: Large population of yeomen farmers loyal to the local community Bottom: Small population of landless laborers, servants, & poorNew England Churches53
5171464054a mixture of Southern and New England societiesThe Middle Colonies were...54
5171464055Middle coloniesWhere were immigrants most likely to find economic opportunities?55
5171464056Most became farmers, but many also found opportunities to become artisans in rapidly expanding cities such as Philadelphia and New YorkOpportunities were not limited to ethnic background in the diverse Middle Colonies and...56
5171464057Young male indentured servants70-85% of immigrants in the Chesapeake were...57
5171464058average age was 10-20 years lower than NEThere was a high death rate in the Chesapeake with an58
5171464059Scarcity of males; allowed some women to improve their social statusWhy did some women have bargaining power for marriage in Chesapeake Society?59
5171464060sexual exploitation Childbearing was dangerous Chesapeake women died 20 years earlier than women in New EnglandHow were women vulnerable in Chesapeake?60
5171464061these many marriages would allow them to gain large estates, social/legal rights and influence, and wealthDue to the short life spans women were commonly able to marry many times due to the death of husbands61
5171464062Top: The plantation gentry dominated society & the House of Burgesses Second: Free farmers were largest class; Came as indentured servants; most lived on edge of poverty Third: Indentured servants were often mistreated & cheated out of land Bottom: African slavesSocial Hierarchy in Chesapeake62
5171464063the southEducation never became an important issue in...63
5171464064poor freed farmers (former indentured servants) and wealthy plantation ownersThe head right system quickly created a society split between... in southern society64
5171464065indentured servantsOver half the settlers in southern colonies were...65
5171464066Falling tobacco prices due to overproduction Poor land High taxesSmall farmers were kept poor by...66
5171464067Anglican ChurchWhat was established as the religion of the southern reason?67
5171464068North Carolina due to its open policy of granting lands and its open-minded, democratic society Georgia in the 1750's after the cheap lands of the tidewater regions were exhausted in Virginia and South CarolinaScotch-Irish developed a strong presence in...68
5171464069a "need" for labor: -Indians decimated by disease -Indentured servant-pool waned after 1660The importation of African slaves was based on...69
5171464070An estimated 11 million slaves (mostly males)How many slaves were brought to the English American colonies?70
5171464071skin colorBy 1700, slavery was based exclusively on...71
5171464072the growing black population in VA by 1672 prompted stricter slave laws:Slaves were originally treated as indentured servants but...72

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