IBHOA Vocab Ch. 2- The American Pagent 15th edition Flashcards

IB History of Americas, AP US History, IBHOA, APUSH, bolded words

1804853189	Protestant Reformation	Reformers sought to eliminate selling of indulgences and encouraged the translation of the Bible into Latin; the movement was launched by Martin Luther in Germany; reform was launched by Henry VIII in England	0
1804853190	Roanoke Island	Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial settlement off the coast of N. Carolina	1
1804853191	Spanish Armada	Spanish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588. The defeat marked the end for the Spanish Empire	2
1804853192	Primogeniture	laws stated that only the eldest son gets land	3
1804853193	Joint-Stock Company	short-term partnership between investors to fund a commercial enterprise; funded early colonial ventures	4
1804853194	Virginia Company	English joint-stock co. that received a charter from James I that allowed the founding of the Virginia colony	5
1804853195	Charter	a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power	6
1804853196	Jamestown	First successful colony settled in the "New World". In Virginia	7
1804853197	First Anglo-Powhatan War	"Irish tactics," used by Lord De La Warr; peace settlement sealed by marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe	8
1804853198	Second Anglo-Powhatan War	In the treaty, Englishmen refused to be associated with Natives: banished from their ancestral land of the Chesapeake, separated whites and Indians; origins of reservation system	9
1804853199	House of Burgesses	An assembly summoned by the settlers with permission from The Virginia Company. Baby steps towards Democracy though it later failed	10
1804853200	Act of Toleration	Passed by the local representative assembaly in 1649 allowing toleration of religion. "Religious Freedom"	11
1804853201	Barbados Slave Code	To control the slave population, authorities devised "codes;" included the right to inflict punishments for even a slight infraction	12
1804853202	Tuscarora War	War in which the colonists crushed the natives and sold many into slavery	13
1804853203	Yamasee Indians	Defeated by the S. Carolinians in war of 1715-1716. Devastated the last of the coastal Indian tribes in the south	14
1804853204	Buffer	In politics, a territory between two antagonistic powers, intended to minimize possibility of conflict. British buffer was Georgia for French and Spanish	15