UNIT 1 TEST Flashcards
(27 cards)
- West Indies slave trade = largest market for fishing, livestock, grain and lumber
- NY mass, Rhode Island participated in slave trade profits = liverpool, bristol, ports, banking, ships, insurance
Atlantic slave trade
- One in 5 slaves died before dock
- Sick got thrown overboard
- About 20,000 had landed in Britain’s colonies in North America
- 400,000 - 600,000 slaves imported
- Middle of the Atlantic
Middle Passage
Movement in Europe that emphasized rational thinking and science over religion, tradition, advancement in sciences
Enlightenment
Rebellion of slaves in the colonies
Stono rebellion
Belief in creator that does not intervene
Deism
Everyone were sinners in his eyes, spiders, everyone is held by God’s hands over the fire pits of hell
Jonathan Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Unsuccessful uprising of VA natives
Uprising of 1622
Extremists
Puritans
Leader of Massachusetts Bay colony during Salem
John Winthrop
Here for religion (not freedom of it). Received permission from Londoners to come as an investment
Pilgrims
Idea of the rule of law, written down we the people can run ourselves
- Natives had this idea
Mayflower Compact
1675 Indian uprise against white colonists
King Philip’s War
Passed by English parliament, control colonial trade, resentment by colonists
- 1650 - 1775
Navigation act
The right to revolt when the government fails, gets a bunch of farmers with him, lasted 4 months
- 1676
Bacon’s rebellion
1690 Parliament act that allowed English Protestants to worship freely
English Toleration Act
Crisis of trials + executions that resulted from anxiety over witchcraft
- 1692
Salem witch trials
One of the largest Native American cities, big system of roads and modern irrigation systems
Aztec
Iroquois confederacy was created
Great League of Peace
The Spanish conquered
Conquistadors
Smallpox + horses
Columbian Exchange
Dominican priest who condemned treatment of Indians in the Spanish Empire
Bartolome de Las Casas
Spanish New World was oppressive toward Natives/justification for English imperial expansion
Black Legend
The Natives clapped back after receiving horrible treatment
Pueblo Revolt
Rich people came together to join stock company
Virgina Company