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910896748Henry the NavigatorStarted a navigational school in Lisbon1
910896749Northwest Passagequicker route by sea instead of overland2
910896750Why Spain first?defeated Moors of Granada, internal peace3
910896751Columbuscommissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella, 1492, treatment of Indians, slave trade, genocide4
910896752Amerigo Vespucciproved Columbus wrong, 1st to map Americas5
910896753Ferdinand Magellancircumnavigate6
910896754Ponce De Leon1513, founded Florida, fountain of youth7
910896755Treaty of Tordesillas1494, Pope Alexander VI, separated non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal8
910896756Spanish motivesGod Glory Gold9
910896757Spain's American EmpireRequiermento- Compelled Indians to recognize Spanish monarchy's sovereignty Encomienda- labor system10
9108967581st permanent settlementSt Augustine 156511
910896759Pueblo Revolt1680, Rio Grande, 400 soldiers and priests were killed12
910896760Bartolomeo De Las Casas1st to criticize slavery13
910896761Old to Newhorses, guns, small pox14
910896762New to Oldcorn, potatoes, syphilis15
910896763John Calvinbelieved in predestination16
910896764Richard Hakluytencouraged English to colonize, get rid of stinky people17
910896765Lost colony of RoanokeSir Walter Raleigh, Croatoan, 158818
910896766Spanish Armada1588, ended Spain's ability to block English settlement of the New World19
910896767Settlement of VirginiaJohn Smith, venture was profit, Jamestown 1607, starving time 1609-1610, John Rolfe and tobacco saves Jamestown, House of Burgesses20
910896768Land & Indentured ServentsHeadright system (1618), first Africans arrived in 1619, 1640 all blacks were slaves21
910896769Bacon's Rebellion1767, Governor Willam Berkely vs Nathaniel Bacon, burned Jamestown, RESULT: instead of rich vs poor, it became white vs black22
910896770Purifying the Church of EnglandCalvinists, rejected Arminianism23
910896771Seperatistspilgrims, just left (didn't try to purify), went to Netherlands for 12 years, intended to settle near Hudson river, Mayflower Compact, William Bradford as first gov. landed on Plymouth in 162024
910896772Winthrop and Mass Bay comp.1629, establish religious refuge in America, Great Migration 1630, result of William Laud, practical democracy,25
910896773City Upon a HillJohn Winthrop, gov of mass bay for 20 years, model of Christian Charity, American exceptionalism, theocracy26
910896774Roger WilliamsPuritan rebel, buy land from Indians, promoted separation of church in Salem, started first Baptist church, founder of Rhode Island27
910896775Anne Hutchinsonthought truly saved didn't have to follow laws (antinomianism),said she could directly communicate with God, banished from Mass Bay, 1st woman to stand up to men in American history28
910896776Education in New EnglandHarvard in 1636, grammar schools for boys, primary schools for girls and boys29
910896777New England Economyrocky soil, short growing season, maritime trade, shipbuilding and logging, Boston was a commercial hub30
910896778Puritan familypatriarchy-father in charge, large (12-14), corporal punishment31
910896779Halfway CovenantChildren and grandchildren were more concerned with $ than God, church membership decline, made Halfway Covenant so second and third generation could be baptized (could not receive communion or make decisions)32
910896780Puritan Lawsbanned Quakers, most forms of entertainment prohibited, criminal war large C on their clothing, public shame33
910896781Colonists vs Native AmericansKing Phillips War (1675-1676) Metacom, destruction of hundreds of families and communities34
910896782Dominion of New England(1686-1689) New England, New York, New Jersey, stop colonial smuggling, Sir Edmund Andros (failure) extremely unpopular35
910896783Salem Witch TrialsReverend Paris' daughter and niece, accused people of being witches, 19 were hanged, 1 pressed, 169236
910896784ChesapeakeChesapeake had a high mortality rate, more men, didn't push education or church, aristocracy, large plantations37
910896785New Englandnot tolerant, even land distribution, small towns38
910896786Connecticut & New HampshireThomas Hooker, first written constitution in 1639 (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut)39
910896787Marylandcreated by the Calvert family, religious haven for Catholics, proprietors, Toleration Act of 1649 guaranteed freedom of religion to anyone who believed in Jesus40
910896788Carolinas8 noble proprietors of Carolina drafted the Fundamental Constitutions which created a hereditary nobility41
910896789North Carolinaself suffcient tobacco farms42
910896790South CarolinaRice, Indigo (introduced by Eliza Lucas), blacks were a majority of population43
910896791Home life in the Southcrude and uncomfy, white women rarely worked in fields, schools were rare, many people illiterate, not many churches, ARISTOCRACY44
910896792Stono Rebellion1st SLAVE REVOLT! South Carolina, 1739, Spain offered freedom to any slave to reach their territory, after this the Negro Code of 1740 was enacted, restricted slave movement education and assembly of slaves, increased militia and fear of blacks45
910896793Middle ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, export to Europe, Philadelphia and New York, diversity,New Amsterdam was captured without a fight, renamed New York46
910896794Quakersbelieved in inner light, people had a direct connection with God,refused to take oaths and pay taxes, religious toleration, pacifists, equality of the sexes, first to attack institution of slavery47
910896795PennsylvaniaWilliam Penn, they trusted Indians (employed them as babysitters), 'the holy experiment'48
910896796Pennsylvania PoliticsScots-Irish immigrants most of population, Paxton Boys uprising (1763) murdered 20 peaceful Indians in retaliation for frontier Indian attacks, Ben Franklin acknowledged grievances, promised legislator would vote on a bounty on Indian scalps49
910896797Politics of Middle Colonies1689 New York suffered a takeover by Jacob Leisler, he was hanged and his head was chopped off50
910896798Zenger Case1735 New York publisher charged with libel for printing statements about the governor (William Cosby), found Zenger not guilty, encouraged newspaper to become more risky51
910896799Georgialast colony, buffer between Spanish Florida and South Carolina, to rid England's overcrowded jails of debtors, James Oglethrope was the founder, moral experiment,lots of blacks52
910896800French ColonizationSamuel De Champlain father of new France, Quebec was first permanent settlement in 1608, friendly relations with Indians, smaller male population, more spread out53
910896801The Dutchpurely economic in nature- not interested in territory, had few settlers,Patroons, expected to import colonists54

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