Key Terms: Period 1
What is a caste system?
It is a social hierarchy passed down through families, and it can dictate the professions a person can work in as well as aspects of their social lives, including whom they can marry.
What are colonizers?
A country that sends settlers to a place and establishes political control over it.
1730-1770
The Great Awakening
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European colonization of the Americas.
What is encomienda?
What is the Great Awakening?
The Great Awakening was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
October 12th, 1492
The day Christopher Columbus came to America
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The global transfer of plants, animals, disease, and food between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the colonization of the Americas is called the Columbian Exchange.
What are quakers?
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
1450-1650
The Renaissance Period
What is mercantilism?
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
What is triangular trade?
The triangular trade was the three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade. The trade traffic flowed to and from three general areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. These areas form a rough triangle when viewed on a map. They were in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the significance of “Gold, God, and Glory?”
These are the motives that the Europeans had while conquering the colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
Indentured servitude is a form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan.