U.S. History 1 midterm
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- renaissance
- era of european history extending from the 1300s to the 1500s
- feudalism
- political and economic system in medieval europe in which lesser lords reeived lands from owerful nobles in exchange for service
- great migration
- migration of english settlers to massachsetts bay colony beginning in the 1630s
- presidio
- fort built in southwest by spanish
- native americans
- land could not be owned. people had the right to use land, grant others to use it
- pequot war
- war between english settlers and pequot indians in 1637
- columbian exchange
- the transatlantic trade of crops, technology. and cultrue between america, europe, africa and asia
- religous tolerance
- idea that people of different religions should live in peace together
- sachem
- a native american leader
- isthmus
- a narrow strip of land that joins 2 larger land areas
- sugar act
- the start of a new british policy designed to raise more income from the colonies. the law actually cut the duty on foreign molassed in half
- legislature
- a lawmaking assembly
- stono rebellion
- slave revolt in south carolina in 1739
- middle passage
- part of the triangular trake in which africans were forcibly taken from africa to slavery in the americas
- clan
- groups of families who are all descended from a common ancestor
- townshend acts
- placed duties on certain imorted goods, including glass and tea. also on aint, paper and lead
- indentured servent
- person who agrees to work for another person for a specified time in return for transportation, food, and shelter
- quartering act
- this law required the colonies to provide housing and supplied for the british troops who remained in america after the french and indian war
- mercantalism
- economic theory that a country should acquire as much bullion as possible, by exporting more goods than imports
- reformation
- revolt against the catholic chuch that began in 1517
- hidalgo
- a spanish noble
- stamp act
- 1765 law passed by the british parliament which taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies.
- diversity
- variety
- boston massacre
- an unruly crowd threatened a squad of british soldiers. the soldiers opened fire on the crows killing five colonists
- persecute
- to oppress someone because of his or her beliefs
- oral history
- traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth
- great awakening
- religious revival in the american colonies during the 1730s and 1740s
- mestizo
- a person of mixed spanish and native american heritage
- africans
- worshiped and used the land
- intolerable acts
- also called the coercive acts. used to punish bostan and oll of massachusetts.
- joint stock company
- company funded and run by a group of investors who share the companys profits and losses
- itinerant
- traveling from place to place or on a circuit
- europeans
- land was there to serve them. it was a source of power to be bought and sold
- pueblo revolt
- revoklt by the pueblo people in new mexico against spain
- kinship
- family relationships
- monarch
- someone ho rules over a kingdom, such as a king or queen
- lineage
- kinship groups that trace their origin to a common ancestor
- savanna
- region near the equator with tropican grasslands and scatered trees
- royal colony
- colony with a governor apointed by the king
- privateer
- privately owned ship hired by a gobernment to attack enemy ships
- treaty of tordesillas
- 1494 treaty in which portugal and spain divided the non-christian world
- mission
- headquarters from which people from another country seek to spread their reilgion
- charter
- a certificate of permisson given by a government
- nomadic
- moving regularly in search of food
- puritan
- person who favored the purification of englands anglican church
- scarce
- in short supply
- bacons rebellion
- revolt in 1672 by virginia colonists against the royal governor
- balance of trade
- difference in value between imports and exports
- boston tea party
- a group of colonists disguised as indians boarded three tea ships in boston. they broke open every crate on board and threw the tea into the harbor
- conquistador
- spanish conqueror
- plantation
- large faim on which crops are raised monly for sale
- cash crop
- crop that is grown for sale
- barter
- trade
- mayflower compact
- agreement in which settlers of plymouth colony agreed to obey their governments lawa