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Ch 2 Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Hernando Cortés

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sailed for Spain; Conquered Aztecs

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Conquistadors

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Conqueror

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New Spain

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Cortés’ new colony

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Mestizo

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mixed Span & Native

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Encomienda

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Natives farmed, ranched, or mined for Span landlords

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Juan Ponce de León

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sailed for Spain, founded La Florida, Fountain of Youth

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New Mexico

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Founded by Pedro de Peralta, N/ern holdings, Santa Fe “Holy Faith”

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Popé

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punished by priests for worship practices (witchcraft)

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John Smith

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heroic in war for Hungary against the Turks; received funds from VA co to set up colony

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Joint-Stock Co

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investors pool wealth in support of colony that would yield a profit

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Jamestown

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Named colony & James river after King

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Powhatan

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natives who helped Jamestown, gave food

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Headright System

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anyone who paid for own/another passage to VA received 50 acres of land

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Indentured Servants

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In exchange for passage to N Am, food, shelter, agree work for limited term (4-7yrs)

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Royal Colony

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under direct control of king

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Nathaniel Bacon

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tall, dark-haired, hot tempered, son of wealthy Englishman, detest Natives, “wolves” who preyed
upon “our harmless & innocent lambs”; Bacon’s Rebellion

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Puritans

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church members who want to “purify”/reform Church of England

18
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John Winthrop

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1st governor of “City upon a Hill”

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Separatists

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Pilgrims, fled from England to escape persecution

20
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Plymouth Colony

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2nd permanent English colony in N Am

21
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Winthrop & others board Arbella & est

22
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Roger Williams

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“Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God”, est. Rhode Island

23
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Anne Hutchinson

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“the Holy Spirit illumines the heart of every true believer”, banished 1638, went to Rhode Island
& then to New Netherland (New York)

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Pequot War

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near destruction of Pequot nation, colonists & allies surround Pequot fort on Mystic River, shots fired as ppl escaped/surrendered; Massacre awful Narragansett “This is evil, too furious, too many killed”

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Metacom

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Wampanoag chief, English call King Philip

26
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King Philip’s War

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Hit & run attacks by natives, burning settlements; Disease/causalities caused surrender/fled

27
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William Penn

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set up Pennsylvania for Quakers

28
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New Netherland

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Dutch gov’t granted Dutch West India Co permission to est; expand fur trade

29
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Proprietor

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owner

30
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Quakers

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believe God’s “inner light” burned inside everyone, no formal ministers, dress plainly, pacifism

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