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Chapter 3: The Creation of New Worlds Flashcards

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419510422Encomiendain the Spanish colonies, the grant to a Spanish settler of a certain # of Indians to pay him tribute in goods and labor1
419510423Repartimientoin the Spanish colonies, the assignment of Indian workers to labor on public work projects2
419510424Rescateprocedure by which Spanish colonists would pay ransom to free Indians captured by rival natives3
419510425Beaver Wars (1640)Hurons (French) vs. Iroquois (Dutch) Indians turn against each other as the Europeans turn against each other, fight for the economic advantage in the fur trade to survive, become dependent on the Europeans4
419510426King Philips War (1675)Wompanoags vs. the surrounding settlers Metacom (King Philip), Massasoit's son struggled to gain independence Colonial court finds 3 Wompanoags guilty of killing a Christian Indian, they are hanged, King Philip fights back 1,000 colonists killed, 3,000 Indians killed5
419510427Bacon's Rebellion (1675)Western Virginia Group attacks the Susquehannocks for land, they strike back Nathaniel Bacon, a young and wealthy planter, leads a violent campaign against all the NA Governor William Berkeley demands that he stops turns into war between settlers and the authorities wants lower taxes the House of B's gives them what they want6
419510428Pueblo Revolt (1680)New Mexico the Indians grew restless under the harsh Spanish rule Apaches raid the Pueblo stores for corn Spanish try to destroy their Native Religion Led by Pope, commanded a force of 20 Pueblo villages attacked the Spanish settlements destroyed Christian items Spanish flee for 13 years and come back less harsh7
419510429Middle Passagethe voyage between West Africa and the New World slave colonies8
419510430Stono Rebellion (1739)South Carolina largest uprising of the slaves against the whites in the colonial era 20 armed slaves marched southward down the Stono river headed to Spanish Florida attacked the white settlements were defeated within a week9
419510431Redemptioner SystemGerman families, similar to indentured servants, but the contract is signed in America, not Europe10
419510432Relationship of Europeans and Indians depends on:population size length of contact intentions reactions11
419510433The Big 3Spanish, French, and English12
419510434Religion of the SpanishCatholicism, Franciscan Priests13
419510435Religion of the EnglishPuritanism, Protestant14
419510436Religion of the FrenchCatholicism, Jesuits15
419510437French tactics for conversion:sell guns and tools etc. only to those who convert16
419510438Spanish tactics for conversion:give gifts, dress well, impress, promise salvation, convince them to abandon their beliefs, target them after hard times17
419510439English tactics for conversion:least successful in conversion because they were required to be literate18
419510440English get the land by:forcing the NA to sell it to pay off debts settling without permission taking the land after wars19
419510441English don't understand:the Indians' nomadic way of life, they leave the land and then come back but it's still theirs20
419510442first to bring slaves overSpanish and the Portuguese21
419510443abdArabic word meaning "slave" or "black man"22
419510444Arabs go to:Sub-Saharan Africa23
419510445First to use slavesthe Europeans24
4195104461619African slaves first arrive in Jamestown, Virginia25
419510447James OglethorpeFounded Georgia in 1732, tried to keep slavery out, send English debtors to produce exotic goods, when rice takes over, the slaves are used26
419510448Slavery in the Northtoo expensive for the farmers, mainly grew crops to eat, not to export, slaves were used as servants, day laborers, craftsmen, etc.27
419510449enslavement in Africathey enslave each other and trade with the Europeans trading posts on the West Coast28
419510450barracoonscages29
419510451the slave ships6-8 week voyage, many slaves tried to commit suicide, 20% of them died from diseases, sold at public auctions30
419510452creolesAmerican-born African slaves31
419510453mestizosSpanish and NA person32
419510454Tenant farmersrented underdeveloped land in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey33

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