Social St. Grad Exam
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- Middle Passage
- the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America
- Enlightenment
- emphasis on learning and reason/the scientific method. (Science-people like Benjamin Franklin)
- Mercantilism
- economic theory based on the belief that a country's power depended mainly on its wealth. (gold, colonies, and more exports than imports)
- Virgninia House of Burgesses
- First representative government (demoncracy) in the US
- St. Augustine
- Founded by the Spanish. Oldest permanent settlement in the US
- Martin Luther
- Led the Protestant Reformation
- crusades
- Holy Wars waged by Europeans on the Muslims in the Middle East to regain the Holy Land.
- Ponce de Leon
- searched for Fountain of Youth in Florida
- Mayflower Compact
- equal and just laws for all
- Conquistadors
- Spanish conquerors (Pizarro-Incas in Peru and Cortez-Aztec in Mexico
- Hernando de Soto
- explored Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi looking for gold.
- Indentured Servants
- People who became servant (almost slaves) for 7 years to pay for their passage to the colonies
- John Locke
- English writer who influenced Thomas Jefferson, who wrote Declaration of Independence. Believed that government should derive its power from the people whom it governed.
- 13 colonies
- settled by the English along the Atlantic coast
- Roanoke in North Carolina
- "The Lost Colony"
- renaissance
- rebirth of learning/renewed interest in learning.
- Triangular Trade
- involved Africa (slaves), West Indies (molasses) and New England (rum).
- Columbian Exchange
- The global transfer/exchange of plants and foods from the Americas to Europe, ASia, and Africa and animals, diseases, and food back to the Americas.
- Favorable Balance of Trade
- A country sells more goods than it buys.
- reformation
- movement ot reform the Catholic Church
- Montesquieq
- Frenchman - 3 Branches of Government - separation of powers so that no branch would have too much power. (Legislative, Executive, and Judicial)
- Prince Henry of Portugal
- navigation and ship building; started the navigation school