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| 4876055527 | Cahokia | refers 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 |
| 4876064496 | Iroquois 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 |
| 4876073365 | Matriarchal Societies | were 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 |
| 4876077841 | Pueblo Indians | are 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 |
| 4876080496 | Animists | the attribution of a soul to plants,inanimate objects,and natural phenomena. |  | 4 |
| 4876084789 | Effect of the Reformation on the New World | The 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 | |
| 4876094043 | Caravel | a small,fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. |  | 6 |
| 4876097758 | Impact of disease on Native Americans during the Spanish Invasion | As 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 | |
| 4876108236 | Chattel Slavery | is 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 |
| 4876113617 | Encomiendas | a system of forced labor that allowed conquistadors to claim tribute(payment,taxes) from Native Americans. |  | 9 |
| 4876117182 | Columbian Exchange | the movement of disease and peoples across the Atlantic. |  | 10 |
| 4876119134 | Sir Francis Drake | was 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 |
| 4876128908 | Mercantilism | Raw materials from colonies exchanged for manufactured goods from mother country. |  | 12 |
| 4876219826 | Roanoke Island | 1587: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 |
| 4876231662 | Goals of the Jamestown Colonists | Jamestown 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 |
| 4876257039 | Chief Powhatan | North American Indian Chief in Virginia,father of Pocahontas.Also,helped Jamestown survive with help of Pocahontas. |  | 15 |
| 4876269752 | John Rolfe | was 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 |
| 4876282003 | Pocahontas | who 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 |
| 4876290933 | Why 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 |
| 4876312701 | Toleration Act of 1649 | passed to protect Catholic country and granted religious tolerance for all Christians in order to populate the land more quickly. |  | 19 |
| 4876326478 | Freeholds/Yeoman | farms of 30 to 50 acres owned and farmed by families or male partners | 20 | |
| 4876330075 | Headright System | Free 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 |
| 4876347382 | Indentured Servitude | Workers 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 |
| 4876368457 | Pilgrims | One 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 |
| 4876380349 | John Winthrop | was 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 |
| 4876417883 | Predestination | God already decides who goes to heaven. |  | 25 |
| 4876423967 | Anne Hutchinson | a)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 |
| 4876439790 | Roger Williams | he 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 | |
| 4876512949 | Pequot War | was 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 | |
| 4876541565 | Metacom's War | an 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 | |
| 6573335209 | House of Burgesses | first representative law making body. | 30 | |
| 6573338839 | Conquistadors | collected and exported as much of the areas wealth as they could. | 31 | |
| 6573379043 | The Starving Time | Indians of Powhatan Confederacy stopped supplying Jamestown with food 90% perished. | 32 | |
| 6577783584 | Mayflower Compact | first step at representative democracy. | 33 |
