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Midterm Flashcards

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Nationstates

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What we know as nations today

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Ferdinand Magellum

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Circumnavigated the globe in 1519

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European navigation motivation

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SPICES

pears, iron, copper, slaves

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Marco Polo

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Super celebrated trader in 1254, traveled Silk Road

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Silk Road

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Trade routes that were used for goods and ideals

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Kublaikhan

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Gave Marco Polo a ‘Golden Pass’ of safe travel to travel through Afghanistan

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Henry the Navigator

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Founded a university for navigators

Invented the astrolabe

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Astrolabe

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Ancient tool used for navigating by using the stars, sun and moon

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Caravel

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Light, fast ship, easy to manuever

made the exploration of Sub-Sahara available

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Portugal and Navigation

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NUMBER ONE
soon to be rivaled by Spain
discovered Canary Islands

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Ferdinand of Aragon + Isabelle of Castile

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United Spain

Isabelle funded Columbus’ expedition

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Divided the world in two hemispheres because Spain claimed it immediately.

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Columbian Exchange

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Trade routes along the old and new worlds.

New world got:
Wheat, sugar, rice, horses, cows, pigs
Slaves from Africa

Old World got:
Gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco,
SYPHILLIS

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Tudors in Order

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Henry VII
Henry VIII
Eduard VI
Mary I
Elizabeth I
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Henry VII

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Broke up with Rome

Wife, Anne Boleyn, was murdered

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Act of Supremacy

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Finalized break up with Rome
Formalized relationship with England
Founded the church of England

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Eduard VI

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Son of Henry VIII, considered bastard by the church

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Bloody Mary I

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Wanted to end Protestantism
Burned protestants alive
Died of cancer before she returned to England

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Elizabeth I

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Masterful politician
Never married, as she was married to England
Did not care for religion, tolerated all
	Less tolerant of Calvinists
After she died, the stuarts took over.
Wanted to populate Ireland
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Ireland

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“Wild vicious savages”
Uncivilized for England
Could not be tamed, must be suppressed

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert

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Military strategist, supporter of the colonies

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Enclosure Acts

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Enclosed farms, pastures for the sheep to control the wool industry
Regulated previously common land private

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Intermediate mercantilism

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balances losses and gains

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Plantation Model

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Build a separate society of Englishmen in a colony

“They’re doing God’s work”

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Cpt. John Smith on assimiliation

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It was the Englishmen’s responsibility to bring people to the light

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Indians

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They were savages, but they were friendly, helped people work.

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John Cabot

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Father of the Reformation

Discovered the coast of NA Under the rule of Henry VII, took possession of the land

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Martin Luther

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Not the first to question the church, but the church was corrupt and sold forgiveness to get into heaven
Identified the pope with the anti-christ

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John Calvin

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Believed God was all powerful, all knowing.

Huguenots were French, Puritans were English. Believed in Predestination

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Max Weber

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Spirit of capitalism, protestant work ethic

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Stuarts in Order

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James I
Charles I
Interregnum
Charles II
James II
32
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Primogenature

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Eldest sons inherited the land of the states, second sons did military careers

33
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James I

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Founded Plymouth

34
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Charles I

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Civil Wars, Founded Mass, MD

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Interregnum

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Commonwealth, protectorate

36
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Charles II

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Hated parliament

Restoration, Carolinas, PA, NY, Conn

37
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James II

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Glorious Revolution

38
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Jamestown 1607

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One of America’s most unsuccessful deathtraps in America, was advertised to colonists

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Smithian Tactics

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Militaristic

Forced indians to do the work

40
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Tobacco

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Cash crop

“The Stinking Weed”

41
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Edwin Sands

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Reform Program

Anyone who paid for their New World passage gets 50 acres of land

42
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Sam de Champlain

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Founder of New France

Traced explorations and created a village in Quebec

43
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Beavers

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Main trade, French Canadians relied on beaver fur

44
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Couers de bois

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Forest runners

trapped beavers for trade

45
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Restoration colonies

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colonies that became colonies after the monarchy

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Navigation Acts of 1660

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Colonies will be used for economic revenue

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External mercantilism

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Pulling the strings of the economy

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Writs of Assistance

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Search warrants that allow people to search for smuggled goods

49
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Admiralty Courts

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Courts that run without juries

50
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Mercantilism

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World runs on a fixed amount of wealth

51
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Salutary Neglect

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Making laws for America, but never actually enforcing them

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Virtual Representation

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people in parliament represent those underneath

53
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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Virginian settlers rebelled against the governor, Berkley

54
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French Indian War

Seven Years War

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French + Indian vs. British

55
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Squanto

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Kidnapped and taken back to England by the Spanish to help them

56
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Plymouth Colony

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Most of the indians died from smallpox

Indians had no problem killing each other

57
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Charles I and Parliament

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Dismissed Parliament and persecuted the Puritans
Made a law that required shipbuilding towns to raise money
Declared all of England as a shipbuilding town

58
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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25k refugees left England
Biggest most influential colony
Dissenters were persecuted. Those oppressed went for mobility, not nobility

59
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Townshend Acts

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“contribute to the mother country that indulged them”

60
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John Locke

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Vanguard of the Enlightenment

“Two Treaties on Civil Govt”

61
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Revenue Acts of 1764

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Contained Sugar Act, Currency Act, and the Mutiny / Quartering Act

62
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Declaratory Act

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Parliament had the right to make laws of validity, to bind the colonies in all sorts, its right to legislate
TAX =/= LEGISLATE

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Great Awakening

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George Whitfield would get on stage at rallies and rip his shirt off describing religion and the pains of hell in grandeur

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Newlights

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People who believed George Whitfield’s representation of religion

65
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Conservatives

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people who did not believe Whitfield

66
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The Whigs

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Believed in limited monarchy, doing things to represent the people

67
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Boston Massacre

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Lots of people die because of friction from the colonies

68
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Samuel Adams

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Would constantly give speeches in town centres reminding people that all is not well

69
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Committees of Correspondence

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Horseback riders connected places to dish news out to people

70
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Tea Act 1773

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Tea was going to be cheaper than stores, smugglers, middlemen, etc

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Tea Party 1773

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so much tea in the harbor

72
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Coercive Act 1774

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Closed the port of Boston, the tea had to be paid for. Town meetings were now illegal, troops were moved back until the tea was paid

73
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Quebec Act

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French Catholics will be tolerated

74
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First Continental Congress 1774

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Not all colonies were present

Guns were being stockpiled in preparation for a war

75
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Galloway’s Plan

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Ressurrection of Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union

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