Unit 5 Vocab (5.1-5.9) Flashcards
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two major pre-Columbian Native American cultures in the eastern part of what is now the United States.
Hopewell→Mississippian cultures
large and influential Mississippian culture site, located near present-day Collinsville, Illinois, just east of the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. It flourished between approximately 1050 and 1350 CE and was one of the most significant urban centers in pre-Columbian North America.
Cahokia
the agricultural practices and cultural significance of maize (corn) among Native American societies in North America
Maize (Maize Culture)
Technique used in farming by the Iroquois and the Cherokee when corn, bean and squash were planted together
Three Sister Farming
An alliance of 6 native american tribes in the Upper New York area
Iroquois Confederacy
a group of Native American peoples primarily located in the Southwest United States, including parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. They are known for their distinctive agricultural practices, settled communities, and unique architectural styles, particularly their multistoried adobe dwellings.
Pueblos
Sometimes used to describe native people
Aborigene
a population or society that is largely uniform in terms of its culture, ethnicity, religion, or other characteristics.
homogenous
A group of missions founded in by Franciscan monks in the Spanish colonies that forces Native people to convert to Catholicism and adopt Spanish agriculture and culture.
Mission System
Uprising by the Pueblos against spanish colonizers where they rebelled against the harsh treatment, forced religious conversion, and exploitation. Was successful and they ended up with a more equal relationship with the Spanish.
Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion)
The guy who was a spanish missoinary who didn’t think that native people should not be enslaves because their souls would be lost to god forever.
Bartolomé De Las Casas
Wars between french and iroquois confederacy
Beaver War(s)
Long armed struggle between the ______ Indian confederacy and early English settlers in the tidewater section of Virginia and southern Maryland. The conflict resulted in the destruction of the Indian power.
Powhatan War(s)
War that resulted in the destruction of the Native tribe besides the Mohegan in New England. Took place before King Philip’s war
Pequot War
Metacom’s War (aka King Philip’s War)
When the pueblo people violently removed spanish people from their land.
Pueblo Revolt
the process by which the American colonies adopted English culture, customs, and political practices during the colonial period, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries
Anglicization (derived from “Anglo-Saxon”)
social, ethnic, and religious group in the United States, typically characterized as white, of English (or other Northwestern European) descent, and Protestant in religion.
WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant)
The major intellectual and cultural movement, primarily in the 17th and 18th centires, that emphasized reason, logic, and individual liberty over dogma and tradition
Enlightenment
Fundamental rights that every person is born with, including life, liberty, and property
Natural rights
The idea that people give up some of their rights to be governed. However, if the government doesn’t do its job, the people have the right to remove it.
Social contract
That one guy who came up with the natural rights during enlightenment
John Locke
exchange of printed materials, including newspapers, pamphlets, books, and other publications, between Europe and the American colonies (and later, the United States) during the 17th and 18th centuries
Transatlantic print culture
Religious Revival movement that swept through the american colonies in the 1730s and the 1740s characterized by emotional preaching, widespread conversions, and renewed emphasis on personal religious experience
First Great Awakening
