Groups
group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Pilgrims
WELL TRAVELED WHO CAME TO JAMESTOWN. KNEW HOW TO ORGANIZE LAZY COLONISTS. RAIDED NATIVES.
JOHN SMITH
EXCHANGE BETWEEN OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD, AND Africa
Columbian Exchange
SPANISH SOLDIERS WHO CONQUERED NATIVE CIVILIZATIONS
CONQUISTADORS
INFECTIOUS DISEASE BROUGHT TO AMERICA BY THE SPANISH THAT DEVASTATED NATIVE POPULATIONS
SMALLPOX
LOCATED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH MEXICO. RELIGION WITH HUMAN SACRIFICES. TENOCHTITLAN
Aztecs
1492, LED A VOYAGE TO PRESENT-DAY BAHAMAS AND HISPANOLIA AND CLAIMED THE LAND HE EXPLORED FOR THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN. BY 1504, HE HAD MADE 4 VOYAGES TO AMERICA.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Items brought from Old World to New World
disease, cattle, horses, grains, coffee, sugarcane
SPANISH SYSTEM TO REGULATE AND CONTROL NATIVE AMERICANS
ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
Calvinist belief that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born
group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century
Puritans
country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
FRANCE
Items brought from New World to Old World
potatoes, corn, pumpkin, cacao, tobacco
term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations
benign or salutary neglect
LINE DRAWN BY POPE (ARBITRARILY) IN NEW WORLD DETERMINING WHAT WAS SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE. SPANISH GOT MOST OF THE LAND; PORTUGAL GOT BRAZIL.
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light"; established Pennsylvania
Quakers
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
royal colony
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
Jamestown
REFERRED TO A PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE BOTH EUROPEAN AND NATIVE
MESTIZO
the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago
BERING STRAIT
IN REBELLION AGAINST SPANISH THEY DESTROYED CHURCHES, KILLED PRIESTS, etc. Eventually led to the end of the encomienda system and declared America's "first revolution"
Pueblo Rebellion/Pope's Uprising
economic system dictated that a country should export more than it imports and build up its gold/silver reserves
mercantilism
the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans
Middle Passage
law passed in the 1650s that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors
Navigation Acts
rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system