Native A/Spanish
What is a difference between the western and easstern natives?
Eastern natives: Farmed, hunted, and fished.
Both: They had different languages and cultures.
Western: Wonderful builders
Who were the French allied with?
Huron Indians
What cash crop was introduced by John Rolfe in Jamestown?
Toabcco
What was the first permanent English (British) settlement in the New World?
Virginia
Who 'coined' the term new world?
Amerigo Vespucci
What was the Pueblo Revolt and what was the outcome?
Spaniards mistreated the Natives in the area – forced them to work and converted them to Christianity by force. Eventually, the Natives united and pushed out the Spanish. However, the unity didn’t last long and Spain took it back in 1692. -End result: Spanish rule was more tolerant towards Native religions and they made fewer demands of Native labor.
Who was Jacques Cartier? What is he known for?
Frenchman who looked for a Northwest Passage to India – didn’t find that, but did end up laying claim to much of the eastern half of Canada
What is the name of the place indicated by the red dot?
What were the Dower rights? Explain in more detail.
Dower rights – If husband died before her, she would get 1/3 of his property. However, when she died, it’d go to her son/h er husba nd’s closes t male relation.
What was the 'starving time'?
Bonus 100 points: What did they eat, and how much of the population survived?
Starving Time at Jamestown – Winter 1609- 1610.
Bonus: 10% , Cats, Dogs, Snakes, Horses, and rats.
What was the first permanent settlement in the modernday U.S. borders?
St. Augustine, Florida
What was largely traded by the French in Canada?
Fur
Why was Jamestown a difficult location to settle? Give two answers!
Bonus 100 points: list 3 answers.
1: Starvation
2: Mosquitos
3: Difficult/Bad Soil
Who was Virgina named after?
Queen Elizabeth
What English explorer landed off the coast of present day North Carolina and named the colony Roanoke?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What was the repartimiento system?
Gave Natives freedom and the ability to own land and earn wages.
Give two reasons France did not encourage settlement in New France:
-French protestants were unwelcome to keep New France Catholic.
-Unfavorable reports of New France surfaced – said it was an “icebox,” full of dangerous Natives, and a dumping ground for criminals.
-If a lot of French came, French fur traders wouldn’t keep a good relationship with Natives.
What were the three things that happened in 1619 that allowed Jamestown to progress?
1. John Rolfe discovered a way to grow profitable tobacco.
2. Tobacco Brides – 90 women were brought to the New World to be wives of settlers. -Impact: Started families in Jamestown, which led to more people being willing to settle there.
3. House of Burgesses
What was the result of the second Algonquin attack in 1644?
The Algonquian attacked again in 1644, killing 500 colonists. It was put down and the colonists no longer felt safe with the Algonquian close by. Natives were required to move to reservations further inland. Impact: Beginning of Native reservations in America.
Choose one of the levels of Spanish hierarchy in the New World. What is it and where was it in the hierarchy?
Peninsulares - highest rank, consisted of those born in Spain Creoles-next highest, born of Spanish parents in the Americas, most were land owners Meztizos-next level, born of Spanish and Indian parents Mulattosroughly equal to Meztizos, born of Spanish and African parents Native Americans and African slaveslowest level of society
Why did Pope Paul III outlaw slavery of Natives in New Spain?
Pope Paul III outlawed enslavement of Natives to encourage their conversion to Christianity.
Name two places the French settled.
Quebec
Montreal
. Give two motivations for the British to settle America:
1. Riches
2. Wanting to gain power
3. Colonizatio n
What two places did England settle in the new world?
Virginia
Plymouth
What was developed in response to the uprising of 1644?
Native Reservations