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1494-1877
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11th Grade
01/15/2009

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Treaty of Tordesillas
Definition
Line of Demarcation drawn by the Pope dividing the heathen world into two "equal "parts-  east for Portugal, west for Spain--line turned out to favor Spain, treaty moved the line west resulting with Brazil becoming a Portugal colony.
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Conquistadores
Definition

Spanish adventurerers in the new world.

God, Glory and Gold.

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Spanish explorers (names, places explored)
Definition

Balboa- crossed isthmus of panama, first European to see the Pacific Ocean 

                                  

Ponce de Leon- explored Florida

 

Hernando Cortes- destroyed the Aztecs of Mexico, took their enormous riches

 

Hernando de Soto- explored southeastern U.S.

Cabeza de Vaca- explored Grand Canyon and as far east as Kansas in search of the 7 cities of Gold

 

 

 

 

 

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New Spain
Definition

Spanish colonies in the New World, controlled by the government in Spain

 

200,000 Spanish came to the new world

Iindian population used as slave labor-they died of overwork and European disease

 

Black slaves from Africa began to be imported

 

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New France
Definition

Jacques Cartier- explored St. Lawrence River as far as Montreal- 1534

 

Samuel de Champlain- established Quebec-1608

 

LaSalle sailed down the Mississippi River to its mouth-1682

 

small population in Canada along St. Lawrence River

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Roanoke
Definition

Failed attempt by English to establish a colony off the coast of North Carolina

 

When supply ship returned from England , all were gone

 

To this day we do not know what happened to the settlers of Roanoke

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Jamestown
Definition

First permenent English Colony in America

 

* London Company

*Early years: colony faced disaster--starvation,    settled in a swamp, "gentlemen" came to find gold, were not workers

 *"Starving Time," poor relations with Powhatan Indians

* John Smith, "saves " Jamestown- "He that willnot work, will not eat ."

*John Rolfe discovers superior strain of tobacco

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New Netherlands
Definition

Founded by Henry Hutson, who sailed for the Dutch

 

New Amsterdam- now NY City

 

Taken over by Duke of York and the English, becoming the English colony of New York

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Plymouth Colony
Definition

Pilgrims/Separtists sailing on the Mayflower are blown off course heading for Northern Virginia and land on Cape Cod in search of religious freedom

 

*settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Term
Mayflower Compact
Definition

signed on the Mayflower.

It established a foundation of orderly government based on the consent of the governed- 

"a Civil Body Politic," for our better ordering and preservation ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Definition

settled by Puritans- today Massachusetts

 

John Winithrop

 

Great Migration saw 20,000 Puritans settle in the area of Boston

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Great Migration
Definition

20,000 Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony, led by the ship the Arbella

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Roger Williams
Definition
dissident preacher from Salem, Massachusetts who was facing arrest by the Puritans and who fled to Rhode Island and founded Providence
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Ann Hutchinson
Definition

Was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging the Puritan Ministers

 

--fled to Rhode Island and then to Long Island where she and most of her family were killed by Native-Americans

 

She became a symbol of religious  freedom and womens' rights

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Thomas Hooker
Definition
founder of Connecticut
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Definition
first written constitution in America
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Lord Baltimore(George Calvert)
Definition
founder of Maryland- as a safe haven for Roman Catholics
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Toleration Act-1649
Definition
guaranteed political rights to all Christians
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Mercantilism
Definition

regulating American trade for the benefit of the mother country. Point of having Colonies was to serve the mother country

Colony would provide the raw materials

Colony would buy imports from mother country

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Bacon's Rebellion
Definition
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