Period 1
These people were names given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas.
What were Conquistadores?
An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment.
What is a joint-stock company?
This was the first form of orderly government based on the consent of the people.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the oldest continuously running college/university in the United States.
Harvard College
First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia Company
What was Jamestown?
This king was killed when the Aztecs were conquered by Hernan Cortez.
Moctezuma
A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose and spelling out the attending rights and obligations
What is a charter?
Migrants who, in exchange for a transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service, typically between four and seven years.
What are indentured servants?
These were vast tracts of land along the Hudson River in New Netherlands granted to wealthy promoters in exchange for bringing 50 settlers to the property.
What are patroonships?
The treaty that was created by Pope Alexander VI divided the land between Portugal and Spain. Portugal would keep control over Africa, and Spain would receive all that was known of the new world, excluding Brazil.
Whats was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This person was an English general and statesman who led the Parliament of England's armies against King Charles I during the English Civil War
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This was a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of predestination.
What was Calvinism?
Series of clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley
What is the Pequot War?
Legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land.
What is primogeniture?
Often-fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-17th century.
What is jeremiad?
This battle took place on the shores of Lake Texcoco near the Aztec city between June 30 and July 1, 1520.
What was la noche triste?