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| 64243202 | Treaty of Tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | 0 | |
| 64243203 | Spanish North American empire | Spain portion of western land. All of south America except Portugal. Mexico and surrounding areas. | 1 | |
| 64243204 | Pueblo (Pope's)Rebellion | the single most successful act of resistance by Native Americans against Spanish invaders. It established Indian independence in the pueblos for more than a decade, and even after Spanish domination was re-imposed it forced the imperial authorities to observe religious tolerance. | 2 | |
| 64243205 | French North American empire | the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 1600s to the late 1960s. Ex quebec | 3 | |
| 64243206 | 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. | 4 | |
| 64243207 | reasons for coming to chespseake | primogeniture. ( Cant get fathers inheritance ) | 5 | |
| 64243208 | Joint stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts | 6 | |
| 64243209 | Starving time | The winter of 1609 to 1610 was known as the "starving time" to the colonists of Virginia. Only 60 members of the original 400 colonists survived. The rest died of starvation because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the new world. | 7 | |
| 64243210 | John Smith | was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. | 8 | |
| 64243211 | John Rolfe and tobacco | He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. | 9 | |
| 64243212 | The Anglo-Powhatan Wars | two wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy over land. Tobacco was the cause | 10 | |
| 64243213 | Headright system | Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. | 11 | |
| 64243214 | 1619 | First Africans arrive in Virginia | 12 | |
| 64243215 | House of Burgesses | 1619 - The Virginia House of Burgesses formed, the first legislative body in colonial America. Later other colonies would adopt houses of burgesses. | 13 | |
| 64243216 | Women in Virginia | Not much. Mostly men | 14 | |
| 64243217 | Church of England | Anglican church, Church created in England as a result of a political dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope, Pope would not let Henry divorce his wife | 15 | |
| 64243218 | Bacon's Rebellion | The uprising was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier. was one of the first times that poor North American whites and poor blacks were united in a cause. The upper class respondeed by hardening the racial caste of slavery | 16 | |
| 64243219 | Purpose of Georgia | First Great Britain had a colony in South Carolina and were nervous because Spain had established a colony in Florida. Georgia was a natural barrier between the two. Second Britain wanted to keep in trading contact with the Creek Indians who lived in the area. French traders had threatened to overtake the trade with the Creek in this area. Britain decided that it needed a trading post to counteract the French threat. | 17 | |
| 64243220 | James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia in 1733; soldier, statesman , philanthropist. Started Georgia as a haven for people in debt because of his intrest in prison reform. Almost single-handedly kept Georgia afloat. | 18 | |
| 64243221 | Carolinas | 1665 - Charles II granted this land to pay off a debt to some supporters. They instituted headrights and a representative government to attract colonists. The southern region grew rich off its ties to the sugar islands, while the poorer northern region was composed mainly of farmers. The conflicts between the regions eventually led to the colony being split into North and South. | 19 | |
| 64243222 | French Huguenots | French protestants who came to the New World to escape religious prosecution in France | 20 | |
| 64243223 | Stono Rebellion | a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws., Slaves in 1739 stole guns, powder, ... etc and marched through town for freedom. | 21 | |
| 64243224 | Crops in the South? | sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, indigo and rice. | 22 | |
| 64243225 | Reasons for coming to Plymouth colony and Mass. Colony | avoid persecution and practice puritanism in peace | 23 | |
| 64243226 | Mayflower Compact | This document was drafted in 1620 prior to settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It declared that the 41 males who signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best interest of all members of the colony. This agreement set the precedent for later documents outlining commonwealth rule. | 24 | |
| 64243227 | William Bradford | a governor of the Plymouth Colony that helped write the Mayflower Compact and set up various programs such as fishing, trade, agricultural industries, etc. and maintained peaceful relationships with the Native Americans, so that the colony could develop | 25 | |
| 64243228 | Pilgrim and Puritans | some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England | 26 | |
| 64243229 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government | 27 | |
| 64243230 | Crops in the New England area | Tobacco | 28 | |
| 64243231 | Life in New England? | close knit community. Religion was everything. Agricultural. @ | 29 | |
| 64243232 | Cambridge Agreement | The Puritan stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company agreed to emigrate to New England on the condition that they would have control of the government of the colony. * | 30 | |
| 64243233 | Great Puritan migration | 1630 group of puritans led by john winthrop found MA Bay Colony | 31 | |
| 64243234 | John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a "city upon a hill = utopia | 32 | |
| 64243235 | Separatists | EXTREME! English Protestant group. Followed the teachings of Calvin. Formed their own congregations. | 33 | |
| 64243236 | The elect | the name for the people who are the ones who God has chosen to save in predestination. This is the belief of the Calvinism religion and that only these people can be saved and ordinary people cannot earn salvation. This belief was started by John Calvin in 1536 in France when he published "Institutes of the Christian Religion" and is still the belief of Calvinists today. | 34 | |
| 64243237 | Covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | 35 | |
| 64243238 | Congregational church | term that in time came to refer collectively to Puritan congregations * | 36 | |
| 64243239 | Pequot wars | Indians in Connecticut valley refuse colonization and attack Wakefield. Massachussets colony burns them, killing 500 Indians. | 37 | |
| 64243240 | Anne Hutchinson | A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority. * | 38 | |
| 64243241 | Antinomianism | asserting that inner grace was sufficient to achieve salvation and that church ministers were unnecessary for that goal | 39 | |
| 64243242 | Roger Williams | A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south | 40 | |
| 64243243 | Town hall meetings | Early form of direct democracy. | 41 | |
| 64243244 | Half-Way Covenant | A Puritan church document; In 1662, the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. | 42 | |
| 64243245 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | First Constitution written in America - limited the governor's power in Connecticut, allowed non church members to vote | 43 | |
| 64243246 | Harvard | The oldest college in America, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry | 44 | |
| 64243247 | New England Confederation | New England colonists formed the New England Confederation in 1643 as a defense against local Native American tribes and encroaching Dutch. The colonists formed the alliance without the English crown's authorization. | 45 | |
| 64243248 | King Philip's War | 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion. | 46 | |
| 64243249 | Dominion of New England | was designed to promote urgently need efficiency in the administration of the English Navigation Laws America could only trade with people of the British rule, 1686-The British combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor Ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros | 47 | |
| 64243250 | Sir Edmund Andros | Governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until 1692, when the colonists rebelled and forced him to return to England | 48 | |
| 64243251 | William Penn | Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. | 49 | |
| 64243252 | New York | colony the English peaceably took back from the Dutch, then given to James II, duke of York and Albany (not yet king), who held almost unlimited power of the colony. Religious tolerance and property protection were promised to the people of New York | 50 | |
| 64243253 | New Amsterdam | a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island. Became modern day new work | 51 | |
| 64243254 | Middle colonies | New York New Jersey and Pennsylvainia. had fertile soil moderate winters warm summers and a good growing season and economy was based on farming mineing craft jobscash crops grain manufacturing and trade | 52 | |
| 64243255 | Crops in middle colonies | Grain. Anything to due with bread | 53 | |
| 64243256 | John Peter Zenger case | He was jailed for questioning the governor of New York. His case influenced freedom of speech and freedom of press. | 54 | |
| 64243257 | Leisler's Rebellion | an uprising in late 17th century colonial New York, in which militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691. The uprising, which occurred in the midst of Britain's "Glorious Revolution," reflected colonial resentment against the policies of King James II. | 55 | |
| 64243258 | Lord Baltimore | Founded the colony of Maryland and offered religious freedom to all Christian colonists. He did so because he knew that members of his own religion (Catholicism) would be a minority in the colony. | 56 | |
| 64243259 | Maryland Act of Toleration | 1649 - Ordered by Lord Baltimore after a Protestant was made governor of Maryland at the demand of the colony's large Protestant population. The act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians. | 57 | |
| 64243260 | 1st Great Awakening and jonathan edwards | a series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, from 1725-1770. Led by jonathan edwards | 58 | |
| 64243261 | New lights vs. Old lights | Revivalists versus Anti Revivalists during the Great Awakening. | 59 | |
| 64243262 | Deism | God built the universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory. | 60 | |
| 64243263 | Mercantilism | A set of economic principles based on policies which stress government regulation of economic activities to benefit the home country. Sell more than buy | 61 | |
| 64243264 | Navigation Acts | Series of laws passed by England on its colonies that basically restricted colonies from buying imports from anywhere else but England. Based heavily on the theory of Mercantilism. | 62 | |
| 64243265 | Triangular Trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa | 63 | |
| 64243266 | Molasses Act | A British law passed in 1773 to change a trade pattern in the American colonies by taxing molasses imported into colonies not ruled by Britain. Americans responded to this attempt to damage their international trade by bribing and smuggling. Their protest of this and other laws led to revolution. | 64 | |
| 64243267 | Wool, hat and iron | 1699; allowed woolen hat and iron goods to be sold only in the colony in which they were made | 65 | |
| 64243268 | Currency Acts | 1751, 1764 the first currency act forbade Massachusetts from printing currency, while the second forbade all colonies from issuing currency. these acts drained specie from the colonies and made money scarce | 66 | |
| 64243269 | Salem Witch trials | 1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress | 67 | |
| 64243270 | Primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 68 | |
| 64243271 | Indentured servants | colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years | 69 | |
| 64243272 | Phyllis Wheatly | a young slave girl taken from Africa. She was taught to read and write and she became an author | 70 | |
| 64243273 | Anne Bradstreet | poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672) | 71 | |
| 64243274 | Salutary neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies | 72 | |
| 64243275 | Virtual Representation | British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members | 73 | |
| 64243276 | Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions. Used as basis for constitution | 74 | |
| 64728532 | causes of American revolution | 1. Proclamation of 1763 stops colonists from moving west 2. Parliament taxes the colonies to pay British war debts 3. Intolerable Acts set up harsh rule in Massachusetts | 75 | |
| 64728533 | shay's rebellion | a rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors. it began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation. | 76 |
