Chapter 2
A metal someone decided was valuable, so it led to conquest.
What is gold?
In a religious context, this word refers to a small group of people dedicated to a set of beliefs that are outside the mainstream belief.
What is a cult?
Agreeing to work a set number of years for someone to pay for passage to the Americas.
What is indentured servitude?
This war lasted 7 years.
What is the Seven Years War?
This rule from King George prevented settlers from settling west of Ohio.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What is private property/commodity?
In law, this word means a contract or other agreement between people or groups. In a religious context, it refers to an agreement a group of believers feels their deity has made with them.
What is a covenant?
The belief in the need to have a strong and aggressive military in a constant state of readiness.
What is militarism?
Organized groups of armed farmworkers or townspeople, not trained professional soldiers.
What is a militia?
In Lord Dunmore's War, the Shawnee signed a peace agreement and lost two important freedoms. Name one.
What is their autonomy?
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What is their hunting territory?
What is white supremacy?
The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and the Pledge of Allegiance are all related to this compact/agreement. This agreement also stated that the colonists were loyal subjects to the king of England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The religious group who arrived to America from England to colonize communities of only people who believed in the same religious beliefs.
Who are the Puritans/Pilgrims?
This war lasted from 1754-1763, where the Cherokee fought as allies along the British.
This leader of the Delaware tribe warned others that some white men were good but the rest could not be trusted.
Who is Buckongahelas?
An effect of attacking social systems, music, and art.
What is genocide?
What is Doctrine of Discovery?
What is becoming real estate?
Not really a war, but a series of attacks with the goal of starving the Natives out of the area.
What is the Tidewater War?
This massacre proved Delaware leader Buckongahelas correct: that even being Christian and Pacifists would not save Native lives.
What is the Gnadenhutten massacre?
This word implies "not like me" or "not like us". Many societies/groups identify as Us and We and view people outside their group as They or Them.
What is other?
The myth that land in North America was unoccupied, undeveloped, and untouched.
What is pristine wilderness?
The belief that the USA was destined to be like no other place on earth and is exempt from criticism because their message is "under God".
What is exceptionalism?
This tribe's homelands were the northeastern woodlands along the coast. Series of conflicts with Puritans led to a devastating war between this group and the Puritans (1636-1638).
Who are the Pequot Nation?
George Washington asked Alexander Hamilton to send this order to an army.
What is "lay waste" to the Haudenosaunee?