Ancient America
This is the movement of massive plates of the Earth's crust pushed by magma from ruptures in the ocean floor
What is Plate Tectonics?
The transatlantic trade of goods, people, and ideas that begin when Columbus arrives
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first permanent English settlement in the new world
What is Jamestown?
This is a compromise that allowed the children of visible saints to become members of the church and baptize their own children despite not being full church members
What is the Halfway Covenant?
This is the Atlantic crossing by ships crammed with enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This was a way of life involving hunting game and gathering food from natural sources
What is Hunter-Gatherer?
A system that allowed a Spanish encomendero to encourage Indians to convert to christianity and provide law and order
What is Encomienda?
A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon, who sought to attack both Indians and wealthy planters
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This abolished the catholic church in England and declared King Henry VIII head of the new Church of England
What is the English Reformation?
These are Spanish forts built to block a Russian advance into California
What are Presidios?
The first migrants into NA between 13k BP and 10k BP
Who are Paleo Indians?
This 1494 treaty drew an imaginary line west of the Canary Islands
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is Virginia's assembly of representatives elected that was established by the VA Co.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This was an English civil war in which Charles I was executed and Puritans began to rule in England
What is the Puritan Revolution?
This was an 18th C. philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions
What is the Enlightenment?
These were the descendants of the Paleo Indians between 10k BP to 4k BP
Who are Archaic Indians?
This is a revolt against the Spanish by Indians living at the Acoma pueblo in 1599
What is the Acoma Pueblo revolt?
The revolt of Pueblo Indians against the Spanish in New Mexico under Pope
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This is the doctrine of John Calvin which emphasizes predestination and led to visible saints
What is Calvinism?
This was a wave of revivals that began in MA and spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
The largest ceremonial site in ancient America, near the Mississippi River where thousands of people built hundreds of mounds between about 800 CE and 1500 CE
What is Cahokia?
A religious rupture that began with Martin Luther's critique of the Roman Catholic church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
These are English laws passed that required colonial goods to be shipped through English ports on English ships to benefit English merchants
What are the Navigation Acts?
These are individuals who believed that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God's law in the bible, such as Anne Hutchinson
What is an Antinomian?
This was an uprising of enslaved Africans in South Carolina in 1739
What is the Stono Rebellion?