History of the Civilizations
TRUE OR FALSE:
The Separatists are different from the other Puritans because they wanted to purify the Anglican Church by eliminating all traces of Catholicism in the church.
FALSE
He is a son of a wealthy Englishman who called the Native Americans, “wolves” who preyed upon “our harmless and innocent lambs.”
Nathaniel Bacon
A system in England where companies allowed several investors to pool their wealth and resources for a common purpose such as funding English colonies. What is this?
Join-Stock Companies
Puritans are also called this way because they refused to conform to the state church’s beliefs and practices.
Dissenters / Non-conformists
This was what they referred to as the importance of tobacco in Virginia and was even used as their currency during this period.
Brown Gold
What do you call the tactics used by the Native Americans when they attacked and burned the outlying settlements throughout New England?
Hit-and-Run Tactics
He landed in Mexico. He learned that it has a vast and wealthy civilization with the Aztec empire. Cortes conquered the Aztec with the help of the Nahua – who had long resented the spread of Aztec power.
Hernando Cortes
An English company that was awarded by a charter through King James I. Any stockholders will be entitled to receive 4/5 of all gold and silver found by the colonists
Virginia Company
TRUE OR FALSE:
With the arrival of 600 new colonists with hopes of starting a new life in the colony, the Powhatan were alarmed at this growing number of settlers, so they began killing their livestocks and destroyed their farms.
TRUE
It is a system where anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land which resulted in the increased of immigration to the colony.
Headright System
How do Spanish colonizers forced the Native Americans to help support the missions?
1. Paying a tribute, an offering of either goods or services. (Tribute can be agricultural products)
2. To work forcefully by abusing them physically if they refuse to do so.
This statement, “Every Irishman shall be forbidden to wear English apparel or weapons upon pain of death” and marriages between English and Irish were banned as part of England’s pattern of colonization. What law is this?
England's Laws of Conquest
Why did the Spanish begin to use African slaves on their plantations in the New World?
They needed slaves to work in the mines and plantations after the Spanish monarchy abolished the encomienda.
What factors enabled the Spaniards to conquer the Aztec empire?
1. Superior weapons 2. The diseases that caused death to the Native Americans 3. Support of other native peoples who resented the Aztec
Identify the name of the land and state (now) founded by Roger Williams when he separated from the Puritan. This place was granted to him after negotiation with Narragansett.
Providence, Rhode Island
Why was Hernando Cortes interested in the Aztec Empire?
Elaborate "National Sinne".
Roger Williams called this as the act of claiming the lands of the native WITHOUT having a proper negotiation nor purchase from the Native Americans. English settlers claimed the lands from the natives.
Elaborate the economic system "ENCOMIENDA".
It is an economic system imposed by the Spaniards to the Native Americans where the natives are forced to farm, ranch, or mine for Spanish landlords.
What factors contributed to the near failure of Jamestown?
1. Diseases
2. Unwillingness of many colonists to work
3. Hostile actions by the Powhatan
This event almost brought the destruction of the Native American nation as the colonists shot the Pequot men and women, and children as they tried to escape and surrender.
Pequot War
Who is John Winthrop and how he is related to Massachusetts Bay Company?
Winthrop was the first governor of Massachusetts who led the Pilgrims (Separatists) from England to establish settlements in the New World. Winthrop got the royal charter through the Massachusetts Bay Company, a joint-stock company from England.
The lawmaking body whom the freemen vote for their members annually. From them, they will choose for their governor.
General Court
Why did the Spanish build a road between Santa Fe and Mexico City?
They built roads in order for the goods could be transported back and forth.
Separatists wanted to separate from the Anglican Church, the state Church of England. Other Puritans wanted only to reform the Anglican Church from within.
Elaborate, "Jamestown and John Smith".
Jamestown is the first English permanent settlement of England in America that was led by a young adventurer named, John Smith. He sailed with the Virginia Company under the banner of King James I and funded through the joint-stock investment from companies.