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| 10403238682 | Archaic Period | the period roughly 10,000 to 2,500 years ago marked by the retreat of glaciers | 0 | |
| 10403238891 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 1 | |
| 10403238892 | Cahokia | an ancient settlement of southern Indians, located near present day St. Louis, it served as a trading center on the Mississippi for 40,000 at its peak in A.D. 1200. | 2 | |
| 10403239856 | Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 3 | |
| 10403240140 | Clovis People | Early residents of North America whose spear points were found in New Mexico and Texas | 4 | |
| 10403241963 | Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | 5 | |
| 10403241964 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it | 6 | |
| 10403243303 | Henry Hudson | 1409 Englishman in Dutch service. Sailed up the North River (later named the Hudson River) looking for a norther passage through North America and claimed the area for the Netherlands | 7 | |
| 10403243304 | Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia | 8 | |
| 10403243948 | Matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 9 | |
| 10403244473 | Mercantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver | 10 | |
| 10403244716 | Meso-Americans | Organized native societies that occupied much of what is now Mexico and Central America. These civilizations included the Olmec people, the Aztecs and the Mayans. The culture of these societies had established religions, calendars, languages and numeric systems. | 11 | |
| 10403244717 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory | 12 | |
| 10403245274 | Protestant Reformation | A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | 13 | |
| 10403245275 | Puritans | English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. They also wanted to purify the Church of England | 14 | |
| 10403245625 | Roanoke | Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them. | 15 | |
| 10403245974 | Samuel de Champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) | 16 | |
| 10403246665 | Separatists | People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims. | 17 | |
| 10403247462 | Seigneuries | Large French estates. along the bank of the St. Lawrence river helped to create the boundary line of French settlement before the Seven Years' War. | 18 | |
| 10403248542 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert | English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America, but decided to move to a better area and was killed in a storm on his way home | 19 | |
| 10403248950 | Sir Walter Raleigh | founder of England's first American colony (Roanoke, it failed) | 20 | |
| 10403249189 | Tenochitlan | Aztec capital city (now the site of Mexico City) | 21 | |
| 10403250523 | Massachusettes Bay Colony | 1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. | 22 | |
| 10403250524 | Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | 23 | |
| 10403251602 | Metacomet | 1639-1676 Wamponoag sachem known to the English as King Philip. He led one of the last Native Americans battles against the colonist in New England in 1676. | 24 | |
| 10403251603 | Navigation Acts | Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade | 25 | |
| 10403252612 | Pequot War | The Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed. | 26 | |
| 10403254062 | Plymouth Plantation | the Pilgrims' settlement, named by Captain John Smith; located in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts; they'd escaped from religious persecution in England. | 27 | |
| 10403254811 | Powhatan | Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia who helped the Jamestown settlers until the settlers demanded food from them. Also Algonquian Language | 28 | |
| 10403254812 | Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania | 29 | |
| 10403255521 | Quitrent | a fee paid once a year for living or farming on someone else's land | 30 | |
| 10403255522 | Rodger Williams | He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed the the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusettes Bay Colony for his religious beliefs | 31 | |
| 10403256413 | Sir William Berkeley | Royal Governor of Virginia who favored large plantation owners and did not support or protect smaller farms from Indian raids. He put down Bacon's rebellion in 1676. | 32 | |
| 10403256414 | Theocracy | government run by religious leaders | 33 | |
| 10403257241 | Virginia House of Burgesses | the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts. | 34 | |
| 10403257242 | William Bradford | United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752) | 35 | |
| 10403258777 | William Penn | A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution. | 36 | |
| 10403259764 | Anne Hutchinson | She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639. | 37 | |
| 10403260088 | Antinomianism | it claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and the truly saved need not obey the laws of God or man | 38 | |
| 10403261603 | Bacon's Rebellion | Rebellion of discontent former landless servants led by Nathaniel Bacon. Though the rebellion was crushed, it caused a move from indentured servants to African slaves for labor purposes. | 39 | |
| 10403262016 | Dominion of New England | 1686 - The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). The Dominion ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros. | 40 | |
| 10403262283 | George and Cecilius Calvert | Founded Maryland as a Roman Catholic haven; first proprietary colony | 41 | |
| 10403262800 | Glorious Revolution | the bloodless overthrow of the English king James II and his replacement by William and Mary | 42 | |
| 10403262801 | Headright | system in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Virginia or bringing indentured servants to America | 43 | |
| 10403263659 | Jacob Leisler | German immigrant who became governor of New York from 1688 to 1691 before being hanged for treason. He was later exonerated of all charges. | 44 | |
| 10403263660 | James Oglethorpe | A colonist the got a charted from King George II and wanted that colony a new place where debtors will have a fresh start. The colony's name is Georgia. He outlawed slavery, no plantations but small farms, and limited the size of granted land. Georgia was also a buffer between Spanish and English colonies | 45 | |
| 10403264465 | John Smith | Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. | 46 | |
| 10403265395 | King Philip's War | (1675-1676) War between the Native American tribes of New England and British colonists. Result of tension caused by encroaching white settlers. The war ended Indian resistance and left a hatred of whites | 47 |
