CCCCD HIST 1301
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- Patrick Henry
- giver me liberty or give me death
- witchcraft
- in salem, Mass, puritan community, division between rich and poor lead to persecution and fanaticism
- Georgia
- a defense buffer against spanish in florida
- Norsemen
- vikings
- Quebec
- capital of New France
- civilization
- high or mature levels of development, sophisticated soceity
- slave trading
- began in the ship routes to africa
- Incas
- least civilized, crushed rock roads, Pizarro took over empire
- Continental Army
- groups from all colonies, run by George Washington, established by the 2nd continental congress
- New France
- modern day canda, area around the St. Lawrence river
- pilgrims
- created a contract signed by many while on ship to establish rudimentary law or government
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Pope drew a line in the western hemisphere, spain got the west (majority), portugal got the east(minority)
- Pennsylvania
- a religious experiment against predestination, beginings of quaker and amish
- Protestant Reformation
- a challenge to the Pope's spiritual integrity
- Elizabeth I
- popular ruler, of partial commoner blood, citizens were devoted
- Hernando Cortes
- given governorship of Cuba, fought the Aztecs
- Henry VIII
- challeged pope, self divorced wife, persecuted catholics
- Boston Tea Party
- colonists dress as indians, destroy british tea shipment
- Declaration of Independence
- ratified on July 4th, 1776
- Stamp Act
- effected everyone, no one liked the collectors
- James Wolfe
- British guy, captured Quebec in French and Indian war
- Seperatists
- wanted religious freedom and to cut all ties to england, including cultural
- Middle Passage
- slaves were center of trading scheme, also slaves in the middle of the ship
- great awakening
- attempt to get people back in church, jump in religion
- North Carolina
- exported tobacco, similar to virginia
- Sons of Liberty
- group of businessmen that would tar and feather stamp collectors
- triangular trade
- a "trade up" scheme with England, Africa, and Caribbean
- Proclamation Line of 1763
- line following Appalachians, was meant to save land for British parliament
- Marco Polo
- explorer went to Asia and India, generates the idea of exploration
- headright system
- head of household gets free land, incentive to colonize
- Lexington and Concord
- event nicknamed "the shots heard around the world"
- Bering Strait
- the term for the frozen land bridge during the ice age connecting russia and alaska
- Aztec
- most civilized, due to aggression and assimilation of others
- Montezuma
- leader of Aztecs, believed that Cortes as their serpent god
- Sugar Act
- effected people in the sugar industry, rum makers
- Encomienda System
- legislation to try to control the conquistadores
- Cornwalis
- leader of the british army
- agricultural revolution
- idea that being able to farm food allowed people to do other things
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- opened navigation schools to train sailors
- Jamestown
- almost failed, settlement in virginia
- French and Indian War
- last imperial war, also first to start in the colonies then move elsewhere
- Yorktown
- where the last battle of the revolutionary war took place, Colonies won
- Spanish Armada
- built by Philip of Spain to punish Elizabeth of england, advanced constructions, holds lots of infantry
- Virginia
- first english colony, exported tobacco
- indentured servitude
- contractual obligation to work for a limited time, often lead to entrapment to extend contract
- Bering Sea
- sea between modern day alaska and russia that was frozen during ice age
- London / Virginia Company
- business enterprise for colonization, had investors, made money via tobacco
- Puritans
- want to purify themselves of England but hold on to customs yet religiously free
- South Carolina
- exported rice and indigo
- the Renaissance
- the rebirth, progress in culture, arts, quality of life
- Massachusetts
- experienced a large influx of people, splitting it up created other parts of new england
- Global Warming
- a rise in average temperature of the Earth due to human influence
- Amerigo Vespucci
- published journals and got credit for original discovery of America
- reconquista
- reunification of spain, removal of "impurities" or anyone not catholic
- Black Death
- form of bubonic plague, spread via rats and food
- Thomas Paine
- wrote 47 page article called "common sense"
- Paleo-Indian(s)
- native american of asian decent
- Francisco Pizarro
- took over Peru
- Pontiac's Uprising
- American Indian that killed colonists and was not stopped by british Redcoats
- Hessians
- german mercenaries to fight for the british
- Conquistadores
- soldiers that killed people who would not convert to Catholicism
- Christopher Columbus
- Italian that got money and ships from Spain to find a new trade route
- Maryland
- initially a haven for catholics to practice religion freely
- imperial warfare
- King William's was the first in a series of this
- The Enlightenment
- big push towards science, motivating people (writers, orators) were necessary
- Sea Dogs
- popular heroes of the time that influenced public option of the monarch
- George Washington
- leader of the continental army, was a great moral booster
- Bacon's Rebellion
- in Virginia, response to Gov. not providing defense against Indians, resulted in redcoats arriving
- Spain
- second country to start exploring
- 2nd Continental Congress
- met in Philadelphia, organizes and runs the war against England,
- Thomas Jefferson
- principal author of declaration of independence
- The Ice Age
- 80,000 years ago, lots of ice
- Boston Massacre
- kids pretending to be sons of liberty, redcoats kill 5 colonists
- great migration
- overpopulation of Massachusets
- Pangea
- idea of one continent that split into multiple pieces
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- Catholic corulers of spain, did what the Pope said
- Martin Luther
- challenged the pope, started a religious reformation
- Portugal
- first country to start exploring, mainly to Asia and India via south around Africa
- Nomads/Nomadism
- greek origin "roaming", people following food sources
- Maya
- native american empire, between the other two in terms of civilization
- John Rolfe
- created weaker version of tobacco as well as a curing method
- Thomas Gage
- military person brought in to control Massachusetts