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4876055527Cahokiarefers to the location where Mississippian culture thrived before European explorers landed in the Americas. Cahokia population exceeded 10,000;smaller satellite communities brought the region's population to 20,000 to 30,000.0
4876064496Iroquois Confederacy(Five/Six Nation)was an alliance of five,later six,American Indian tribes-the Cayuga,Mohawk,Oneida,Onondaga,Seneca,and Tuscarora located modern day New York State.The confederacy's structure included both federalism and a type of bicameral(having two legislative branches) council that inspired the framework of the U.S Constitution.1
4876073365Matriarchal Societieswere societies that inherited power through female lines of authority women were influential in local councils,though men served as sachems,made war,and conducted diplomacy.2
4876077841Pueblo Indiansare American Indians who live in pueblos and have a long tradition of farming.Pueblo means town in Spanish,and the name refers to their distinctive building style.3
4876080496Animiststhe attribution of a soul to plants,inanimate objects,and natural phenomena.4
4876084789Effect of the Reformation on the New WorldThe Protestant Reformation as this movement came to be called triggered a Counter Reformation in the Catholic church that sought change from within and created new monastic and missionary orders,including the Jesuits(founded in 1540),who saw themselves as soldiers of Christ.The competition between these divergent Christian tradition did much to shape European colonization of the Americans.5
4876094043Caravela small,fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.6
4876097758Impact of disease on Native Americans during the Spanish InvasionAs the European explores and colonists began to arrive, this changed and the consequences were disastrous for Native American people.The death tolls from the newly introduced European diseases often reached 80-90 percent.By 1518,the Native demographic catastrophe and the demands of Spanish settlers for labor led to the importation of slaves from Africa.7
4876108236Chattel Slaveryis an enslaved person who is owned forever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property,to be bought and sold.8
4876113617Encomiendasa system of forced labor that allowed conquistadors to claim tribute(payment,taxes) from Native Americans.9
4876117182Columbian Exchangethe movement of disease and peoples across the Atlantic.10
4876119134Sir Francis Drakewas an English sea captain,privateer,navigator,slaver,and politician of the Elizabethan era.Sir Francis Drake was also an explorer best known for circumnavigate globe.11
4876128908MercantilismRaw materials from colonies exchanged for manufactured goods from mother country.12
4876219826Roanoke Island1587:The first permanent English settlement in North America.The leader of the colony left for England to get supplies,when he returned everyone was gone.The colony failed.13
4876231662Goals of the Jamestown ColonistsJamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America,was founded in 1607.Many of its colonists died during the first few difficult years,but thanks to the leadership of Captain John Smith and others,Jamestown endured and served as a starting point for important explorations of Chesapeake region.Furthermore,tobacco was their cash crop.14
4876257039Chief PowhatanNorth American Indian Chief in Virginia,father of Pocahontas.Also,helped Jamestown survive with help of Pocahontas.15
4876269752John Rolfewas one of the early English settlers of North America.He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crops in the colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas.16
4876282003Pocahontaswho was a Powhatan princess who befriended the English colonists at Jamestown.Also,she married the colonist John Rolfe(1614) and later traveled Passes to England ,where she died.17
4876290933Why Virginia becomes a Royal Colony ?In 1624,the Virginia Company's charter was revoked by King James 1 and the Virginia Colony was transferred to royal authority as a crown colony.From 1619 to 1776,the legislature of the Virginia was the House of Burgesses,which governed in conjunction with a colonial governor.18
4876312701Toleration Act of 1649passed to protect Catholic country and granted religious tolerance for all Christians in order to populate the land more quickly.19
4876326478Freeholds/Yeomanfarms of 30 to 50 acres owned and farmed by families or male partners20
4876330075Headright SystemFree land(50 acres) given to anyone who would pay for laborer or indentured servant.(mostly wealthy investors) led to an emerging aristocracy in VA.21
4876347382Indentured ServitudeWorkers contracted for service for a specified period.In exhange for specified peroid.In exchange for agreeing to work for four or five years(or more) withput wages in the colonies,indentured workers received passage across the Altanic board,and status as a free person at the end of the contract peroid.22
4876368457PilgrimsOne of the first Protestant groups to come to America,seeking a separation from the Church of England.They founded Plymouth,the first permanent community in New England, in 1620.23
4876380349John Winthropwas an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,the first major settlement in what us now New England after Plymouth Colony.Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630,and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years of existence.24
4876417883PredestinationGod already decides who goes to heaven.25
4876423967Anne Hutchinsona)Dissenter of Puritans b)Believed God spoke to her c)Called before the General Court to answer for her teachings d)She was banished from Mass. and fled to Rhode Island e)"Covenant of Grace"26
4876439790Roger Williamshe believed government shouldn´t be involved in religion called Religious Dissident.(separation of church and state).He believed Indians were treated unfairly. He fled to Providence and founded Rhode Island.27
4876512949Pequot Warwas an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies(the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) which occurred between 1634 and 1638.The Pequots lost the war.At the end,about seven hundred Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to the West Indies.28
4876541565Metacom's Waran armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675-78.The war is named for the main leader of Native American side,Metacom ,who had adopted the English name"King Philip".29
6573335209House of Burgessesfirst representative law making body.30
6573338839Conquistadorscollected and exported as much of the areas wealth as they could.31
6573379043The Starving TimeIndians of Powhatan Confederacy stopped supplying Jamestown with food 90% perished.32
6577783584Mayflower Compactfirst step at representative democracy.33

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