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History
11th Grade
10/01/2009

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Yellow Fever
Definition
When the Europeans first colonized the Caribbean this deadly disease killed 3/4 of them after only one year. This led to an increase in imports of African slaves because a smaller amount of them died because of their genetic resistence to diseases like yellow fever and malaria.
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1st Phase of Colonization

(Who?)

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Spain and Portugal
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2nd Phase of Colonization

(Who?)

Definition
Netherlands, France and England
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Dutch East India Company
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One of the first joint stock companies. Was Dutch and its original purpose was to pirate the Portuguese ships for wealth.
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Giovanni Verrazano
Definition
As a French explorer, he told the government about the advantageous and valuable NY harbor. They did not intercede, and the location remained vacant until the Dutch dominatied the region and named it the New Netherlands.
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Patroonship
Definition
Dutch feudal-type estate used in the New Netherlands
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Henri II of France
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A powerful king who married Catherine de Medici. After his death, his subsequent sons died shortly.
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Henri IV
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A Protestant king of the Bourbon dynasty. He fabricated the Edict of Nantes which published the latest policy of religious toleration- making France the second country to ever to pronounce religious tolerance.
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Edict of Nantes
Definition
Policy of religious toleration affirmed by French King Henri IV.
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Champlain
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Helped France settle the Canadian colonies including St. Lawrence. There fur trade prospered. Quebec was also settled in 1508 to form the Foundation of New France.
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Seignuries
Definition
Large, French, fuedal-type estates analogous to that of a Dutch patroonship.
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Louis XIV
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French King who repealed the Edict of Nantes and allowed no Huguenots to emigrate to the new land. ("Sun King")
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Huguenots
Definition
French protestants
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