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10034730508Columbian Exchange"Triangle Trade: Widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in 15th-16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.0
10034730509FeudalismA way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.1
10034730510CapitalismAn economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.2
10034730511Joint-Stock CompaniesA business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by his or her shares (certificates of ownership).[1]This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a bigger proportion of a company than others do.3
10034730512Encomienda SystemA system in which the Spanish crown granted a person a specified number of natives of a specific community, with the indigenous leaders in charge of mobilizing the assessed tribute and labor. In turn, encomenderos were to take responsibility for instruction in the Christian faith, protection from warring tribes and pirates, instruction in the Spanish language and development and maintenance of infrastructure.4
10034730513subjugateto bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master, enslave.5
10034730514Northwest PassageThe Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago6
10034730515Bering StraitStretch of ocean separating North America from Asia that was, during the Ice Age, the location of a land bridge as wide as Alaska. Then, human migration was possible over the land bridge from Siberia, and human beings came across likely in pursuit of game. From this point of origin, American Indians dispersed down across the entire Western hemisphere.7
10034730516IroquoisThe name not of a tribe but of a confederacy of six separate tribes centered in what would become New York. Coposed of the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora Tribes united in a military alliance against the Huron tribe located in the Great Lakes Region.8
10034730517RenaissanceThe flowering of scholarship and individualistic, humanistic endeavor that ended the medieval period of European history. In English: "Rebirth."9
10034730518Prince Henry the NavigatorRegarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discoveries, responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents through the systematic exploration of Western Africa, the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search for new routes.10
10034730519Ferdinand and Isabella of SpainChristopher Columbus' patrons; launched the Spanish Empire after hearing of his discoveries of a supposed water route to Asia. Established management precedents that cpaitalized on treasures discovered in the New World, served as a model for other European nations attempting similar exploits.11
10034730520Bartolome de las CasasDominican friar, priest and scholar that worked tirelessly throughout the sixteenth century, decrying the plight of the American Indians.12
10034730521Protestant ReformationEarly 16th century writings by the priest and scholar Martin Luther, focusing primarily on biblical doctrines of grace, inspired this movement. Its key doctrine: each person having an individual calling and a Christian duty to work diligently at that calling for the Glory of God. This idea became a seminal attribute of American society through the influence of Dutch, English, Swedish, Germany and French Huguenot colonists.13
10034730522Martin LutherA German priest and scholar who defied Rome and launched the Protestant Reformation by contesting certain teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, beginning in 1517.14
10034730523John CalvinFrenchman that began as a priest but joined the Protestant cause as a legal scholar and minister in Geneva, Switzerland. Wrote the Institutes of Christian Religion, emphasizing the sovereignty of God in salvation. His student, John Knox, formed the Scottish Presbyterian Church brought to the shores of America by Scots-Irish immigrants. The Puritans were also Calvinist in doctrine and were the founders of Congregational Churches in New England.15
10034730524Henry VIII of EnglandTudor King of England who launched the English Reformation because the Roman Catholic Church opposed his actions of divorcing Catherine of Aragon and marrying Anne Boleyn. Also: severed ties with Rome and allowed the Bible to be printed in English legally for the first time.16
10034730525New AmsterdamDutch Colony in North America that began when Peter Minuit purchased the best harbor on the Atlantic Seaboard from local Indians with a few trading goods. Established the Dutch as competent fur traders, excellent merchants, responsible for founding the most ethnically diverse colony that fittingly, became the site of the trade and culture capital of the world, New York City.17
10034730526Elizabeth IThe daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who was more responsible than any other monarch for positioning her country to take advantage of New World discoveries.18
10034730527nation-stateThe modern form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity.19
10034730528confederacyAn alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a federation.20
10034730529primevalConcerning the earliest origin of things.21
10034730530caravelA small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails.22
10034730531plantationA large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crop and usually employing coerced or slave labor.23
10034730532conquistadorA Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas.24
10034730533mestizoA person of mixed Native American and European ancestry.25
10034730534nationalismFervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state, leading to a belief in the superiority of one's culture over another.26
10034730535charterA legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations.27
10034730536indentured servantA poor person obligated to a fixed term of labor.28
10034730537tolerationOriginally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority.29
10034730538squatterA frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement.30
10034730539matriarchA respected, usually elderly, female head of a household or extended clan.31
10034730540conversionA religious turn to God, thought by Calvinists to involve an intense, identifiable person experience.32
10034730541heresyDeparture from correct or officially defined belief.33
10034730542seditiousConcerning resistance to or rebellion against the government.34
10034730543commonwealthAn organized civil government or social order.35
10034730544autocraticAbsolute or dictatorial rule.36
10034730545proprietaryConcerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to individuals by the monarch.37
10034730546naturalizationThe granting of citizenship to foreigners or immigrants.38
10034730547congregationalismChurch and town organization independent (no state control) and non-hierarchical; Citizenship = church membership (covenant); New England and Middle colonies; Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, etc.39
10034730548covenantAgreement between church members to form an independent church congregation; Membership was tied to citizenship.40
10034730549Richard HakluytEnglish writer who extravagantly exhorted his countrymen to undertake the colonization of the New World after defeat of the Spanish Armada.41
10034730550Sir Francis DrakeThe most famous of the "sea dogs" (English Privateers); Plundered his way all around the planet; Financially supported by Queen Elizabeth; Knighted by queen because defying Spanish protest.42
10034730551Destruction of the Spanish Armada16th century England vs. Spain naval war; Marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire and opened the path for the British Empire to flourish.43
10034730552CalvinismA major branch of Protestantism; The credo of many American foundational settlers including English Puritans, Scottish Presbyterians, French Hugenots, and Dutch Reformed Church in America44
10034730553Barbadoslocated in Caribbean; where the settlers in Carolina come from45
10034730554Joint Stock CompanyA commercial venture in which multiple shareholders invest and spread risk; e.g. Hudson's Bay Company, Virginia Company, Dutch West India Company46
10034730555Hudson's Bay Companyone of the Joint-stock companies founded in England for the purpose of trapping and fur trading.47
10034730556Navigation ActsA series of economic regulations set by England starting in 1651 in order to gain control over its' colonies; Inspired by merchantilist policies48
10034730557Queen ElizabethA.K.A. Virginia, the "virgin" queen; An ambitious ruler, she secured the Protestant Reformtation in England and reigned during the destruction of the Spanish Armada, Drake's circumnavigation, the English Renaissance (Shakespeare!), and the beginning of the British Empire.49
10034730558Sir Walter RaleighA dashing courtier favored by Queen Elizabeth; Launched the first English colony in the New World in 1585 on Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia (present day North Carolina); The colony was a failure due to England's preoccupation with war with Spain.50
10034730559Roanoke colonyLocated in present day North Carolina; Known as "The Lost colony" established by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585, disappeared during the first Anglo-Spanish War.51
10034730560Virginia Company of LondonA joint-stock company that established the first enduring English colony in the New World at Jamestown.52
10034730561Plantation economylarge scale agriculture worked by slaves, especially sugar and tobacco plantation.53
10034730562Chesapeake BayLarge estuary between Maryland and Virginia; Site of both Jamestown and St. Marys.54
10034730563JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America; Founded in 1607 as a joint-venture of the Virginia Company.55
10034730564MarylandProprietary colony established on the Chesapeake Bay; George Calvert and Lord Baltimore were its proprietors; Established as a Catholic haven in the largely Protestant British Americas.56
10034730565Powhatan confederacyA group of native American tribes in 17th century that settled in Virginia and came into conflict with the Virginia colonists.57
10034730566Lord De La WarrGovernor of Jamestown; "he shall not work shall not eat"58
10034730567Anglo-Powhatan Wars1614-1644; Series of wars between English Virginia Company settlers and local Indian tribes; "Irish tactics" used; Settled by Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe; Led to the banishment of Chesapeake Indians and English encroachment of land.59
10034730568"starving time"Jamestown winter of 1609 to 1610; Only 60 of the 400 colonists survived because they didn't found plants or the methods to grow crops; Most colonists were gentlemen "adventurers" who refused to work or didn't know how to grow crops.60
10034730569House of BurgessesThe first representative legislative body formed in 1619 in Virginia; Evolved into a "planter oligarchy" that represented the wealthy plantation owners, and a competitor to the Parliament in London.61
10034730570Maryland Acts of TolerationIn 1649, passed in Maryland, guaranteeing rights to Christians of all denominations; A measure to protect Maryland's Catholics.62
10034730571Headright SystemNew immigrants were enticed to come to the New World with the offer of 50 arces (1 arce= 4047m2)63
10034730572Bacon's Rebellion1676 rebellion of discontent landless servants in Virginia; Exposed the weakness of the indentured servant system to the ruling planter oligarchy, who thereafter relied more and more on African slaves.64
10034730573Lord BaltimoreCatholic proprietor of the colony of Maryland; Permitted religious freedom to all Christian colonists in a mesure to protect Catholics.65
10034730574John RolfeVirginia "father of tobacco"; Husband of Pocahontas.66
10034730575Indentured servantPotential England immigrants sign a contact with wealthy Virginians to work for a certain years in the New World in exchange of the passage over the Atlantic.67
10034730576VirginiaThe first colony of the British Empire; Established during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.68
10034730577QuebecFrench major colony in Canada.69
10034730578Jesuit"Society of Jesus"; Catholic missionaries.70
10034730579HuguenotsFrench Protestants71
10034730580Metis PeopleDescendant of French and indigenous people72
10034730581Fundamental Orders of ConnecticutFirst written constitution in the New World (and all of Western Tradition); established townhall style of government similar to much of Puritan New England.73
10034730582PilgrimsTraveler on a holy journey; Puritan separatists who first settled Plymouth in New England74
10034730583PuritansA group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England75
10034730584ProtestantismThe "reformed" Christian faith that emerged from Martin Luther's 16th century protests against the corruption and control of the Catholic Church; A major religious and political force in the English colonies of the New World.76
10034730585Town hall meetingA form of direct democratic rule, used principally in New England where most or all the members of a community come together to participate in direct democratic government.77
10034730586Congregational churchProtestant churches practicing congregationalist church governance; The independence of each congregation in New England mirrored the independence of each town and its political organization.78
10034730587Royal charterA formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.79
10034730588CharterThe grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified; 3 types: Royal, Commercial, Proprietary.80
10034730589Plymouth colonyFounded by a group of Separatists who came to be known as the Pilgrims; the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region,https://o.quizlet.com/YWD0OaZqPqntAaSERr.dQA_m.jpg81
10034730590Roger WilliamsA Puritan, an early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state; he was expelled from the colony of Massachusetts and began the colony of Providence Plantation.82
10034730591ProvidenceColony established by the puritan dissenter Roger Williams; Later merged with Portsmouth to form the colony of Rhode Island.83
10034730592Anne HutchinsonAn important participant in the Antinomian Controversy; banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and formed Portsmouth (later merged into Rhode Island).84
10034730593John WinthropOne of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; his vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development.85
10034730594MayflowerThe ship that transported the first English Separatists—Pilgrims—in 1620.86
10034730595SeparatistPuritans who felt needed to separate from the Church of England.87
10034730596"city upon a hill"In the 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity" preached by Puritan John Winthrop. Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill", the ideal community, watched by the world.88
10034730597Mayflower CompactThe first governing document of Plymouth Colony, written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists.89
10034730598Salem Witch TrialsA series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693; Religious fear that resulted from unrest in the colonies.90
10034730599slave codesSeries of laws in southern plantation colonies that established Africans as lifelong slaves and a cornerstone of the plantation economy.91
10034730600King Philip's WarAKA Metacom's War; Savage conflict between New England colonists and local Indian tribes; Both sides resorted to brutal massacre tactics; Defeat of Indians resulted in white land expansion.92
10034730601Middle ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; Dominated by Quakers.93
10034730602Supreme gonverner of Anglican ChurchThe Supreme Governor of the Church of England is a title held by the British monarch that signifies titular leadership over the Church of England; Since the English Reformation under the Tudors, the monarch has been the head of the church; One of the major problems Puritans, Quakers, and other groups had with the Anglican church.94
10034730603JamaicaAn island in Caribbean sea. Visited by Columbus in 1494 and Colonized by Spanish who enslaved or killed the Natives. Became a major sugar colony of the British Empire in the 17th century.95
10034730604South CarolinaPlantation colony established by the eight nobles (lords proprietor) after the restoration of King Charles II; Mostly rural plantations, but has primary settlement at Charles Town.96
10034730605"buffer colony"A colony established to serve primarily as a defensive boundary against a competing colonial power; California and Georgia, for example.97
10034730606North CarolinaA relatively poor and underdeveloped colony settled by landless squatters from Virginia98
10034730607"holy experiment"William Penn's term for the ideal government that would uphold religious freedom and attract virtuous settlers; Largely a Quaker ideal; Its failure was apparent after Penn's death when settlers came into conflict with natives and Quakers lost political power for advocating nonviolence in the face of Indian and competing colonial power threat.99
10034730608Philadelphia"The city of brotherly love" established by William Penn; It was by far the largest and most important city in the English colonies on the eve of the Revolution.100
10034730609mercantilismThe driving economic philosophy of the colonial powers in the 17th and 18th centuries; Colonial competition was a zero-sum game; Trade imbalances (more imports than exports) were evil; Colonies served the mother country and were not allowed to compete economically.101
10034730610New NetherlandDutch colony in Northern America; Established as a trading center; Later taken by the English and renamed New York.102
10034730611Gullah cultureBlack people off the coast of South Carolina; Speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and grammar; Their isolation is an example of how many Africans held onto their traditional culture despite enslavement and Christianization.103

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