Period 1 and 2

Question 1

Word

Answer 1

Defintion (Make sure to note the time period if possible)

Question 2

Encomienda system

Answer 2

was a licence granted by the spanish crown to royal officials to extract labor and tribute from native peoples in specific areas

Question 3

Columbian Exchange

Answer 3

the transfer beginning with columbuses first voyage-of plants animals and disseases between the western hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere

Question 4

Slavery

Answer 4

the state of being a slave/used against will

Question 5

Land bridge

Answer 5

A connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory.

Question 6

Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs

Answer 6

native tribes that flurished in 1200, 900, and 1400ad

Question 7

Conquistadores

Answer 7

spanish and protegese explores of the 15th and 16th century.

Question 8

Hernan Cortes

Answer 8

a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

Question 9

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 9

Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Question 10

Christopher Columbus

Answer 10

Christopher Columbus was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain.

Question 11

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 11

1494 treaty in wich spain and portagal agreed to divide the lands of the western hemiphere between them

Question 12

Slave Trade

Answer 12

(15-1800s)the Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

Question 13

Nation-state

Answer 13

a sovereign state inhabited by a group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.

Question 14

Iroquois Confederation

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Group of Native American Indians which was originally composed of 5 tribes consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca peoples.

Question 15

Bartolome de Las Casas

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Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru

Question 16

Act of Toleration

Answer 16

Ensured religous freedoms to Christian settlers in Maryland

Question 17

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 17

Puritan spiritual advisor, challenged male authority and gender roles

Question 18

Antinomianism

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any view which rejects laws or legalism and argues against moral, religious or social norms

Question 19

Quakers

Answer 19

members of the society of friends, a religious group persecuted for its belifs in the 17th century england

Question 20

William Penn

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1644–1718), founder of Pennsylvania and one of the first champions of expressive freedoms in the American colonies,

Question 21

First Great Awakening

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The First Great Awakening was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. This feeling swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. The revival of Protestant beliefs was part of a much broader movement that was taking place in England, Scotland, and Germany at that time.

Question 22

Jamestown

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the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Question 23

Puritans

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members of a group that wanted to eliminate all traces of roman cotholic ritual and traditions in the church of england

Question 24

Great Migration

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the largest scale movement of African americans from the south to northern citties in the early 20th century

Question 25

King Philip’s War

Answer 25

1675-1676 between new england colonists and native american groups allied under the leadership of the wampanoag cheif metacom

Question 26

Mayflower Compact

Answer 26

the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.

Question 27

Virginia House of Burgesses

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The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia

Question 28

Sir William Berkeley

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governor of Virginia he implemented policies that bred dissent among the colonists and sparked Bacon’s Rebellion.

Question 29

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 29

Bacon’s Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677, began with a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. Chased north by Virginia militiamen, who also attacked the otherwise uninvolved Susquehannocks, the Indians began raiding the Virginia frontier.

Question 30

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer 30

Adopted in January 1639, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut stated the powers and limits of government.

Question 31

New England Confederation

Answer 31

The purpose of the New England Confederation was to create a military alliance among four New England colonies

Question 32

Corporate colonies

Answer 32

Corporate colonies were colonies granted royal charters from the throne of England. Stockholders held onto the charters while the monarchy governed the corporate colonies by appointing the leaders, guiding policies, and establishing laws.

Question 33

Royal colonies

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a colony governed directly by the crown through a governor and council appointed by it

Question 34

Proprietary colonies

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a colony granted to some individual or individuals with the fullest prerogatives of government

Question 35

Chesapeake colonies

Answer 35

The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.

Question 36

Joint-stock company

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Buissnesses in wich investors pool thier wealth for a common pupouse that started as eaey as the 13th centry and still exist.

Question 37

Virginia Company

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A joint stock company by king charles first to establish a conoly in north america in 1606

Question 38

Mercantilism

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An economic system in wich nations seek to increase thier wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade that lasted from the 16th centry to the 18th centry

Question 39

Navigation Acts

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A series of laws enacted by parilament, beggening in 1651, to tighten England’s control of trade in its american colonies

Question 40

Glorious Revolution

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The transfer of the british monarchy from james second to william and mary in 1688-1689

Question 41

Indentured Servants

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A person who had contrancted to wrk for another for a limited period, often in return for travek expensis, shelter, and sustenance that appeared in america in the 1620s and remaind untill 1917

Question 42

Headright system

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The virginia company’s polocy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each familiy memebrr who accompanied him in 1618

Question 43

Triangular trade

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the translatic system of trade in wich goods and ppeople, including slaves, were exchanged between africa, england, eourope, the west indies, and the colonies in north america from the 16th to 19th centry.

Question 44

Middle Passage

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The voyage the brough enslaved africans to the west indies and later north america from the 1500s to the 1800s

Question 45

Enlightenment

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A 18th centry intellectual movment the emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge