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Ap Us history vocab chap 1-5
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08/25/2010

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conquistadors
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a Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas
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treaty of Tordesillas
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treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal.
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three sisters farming
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rotation of crops allowing 1 field empty in order for the nutrients to come back
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popes rebellion
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Indian uprising in New Mexico caused by Spanish efforts to suppress Indian religion
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Humphrey Gilbert
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Elizabethan courtier who failed in their attempt to found the new world colonies.
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joint stock company
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an economic arrangement by which a # of investors pool their capital for investment
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indentured servant
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a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor , often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training
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squatter
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a frontier farmer who illegally occupied land by others or not yet officially opened for settlement
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primogeniture
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the legal principal that the oldest son inherits all family property or land
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House of Burgesses
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1st representative self government in Virgina, 1st of the many small parliaments; an assembly
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Lord De la Warr
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harsh military governor of Virgina who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians
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Peter Stuyvescant
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conqueror of New Sweden who later lost New Nether to the English
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Glorious Revolution
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English revolt that also led to the overthrow of the Dominion of New England in America
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Sir Edmund Andros
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head of the Dominion of England: English military man
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Nathaniel Bacon
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agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial gov.
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John Wintrop
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promoter of Massachusetts Bay as a holy " city upon a hill" ; governor for Massachusetts Bay colony.
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Fundamental orders
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a document drafted in an open meeting by the new Connecticut River colony: a modern constitution.
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Mayflower compact
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written by Pilgrims as a simple agreement to form a gov. and submit to the will of the majority under regulations agreed upon.
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William Berkeley
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colonial Virgina official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge
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Leislers Rebellion
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major middle rebellion that caused 33 deaths
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Middle passage
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experience for which human beings were branded and chained , and which 80% survived
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half way covenant
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helped erase earlier Puritan distinction between the converted " elect" and other members of society: an agreement about church admit to baptism but not fall communion
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headright system
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whoever paid the passage of the laborer received the right to get 50 acres of land: Maryland and Virgina`s system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans-Atlantic passage for laborers
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George Whitefield
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itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies
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Great Awakening
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stimulated a fervent ,emotional style of religion, denominational divisions, and a greater sense of inter-colonial American identity
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Zenger Case
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marked the beginnings of freedom of printed political expression in the colonies.
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triangular trade
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small but profitable trade route that linked New England , Africa, and the West Indies
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Molasses Act
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a tax on molasses; passed by parliament meant to be a blow to American international trade with French West Indians
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Phillis wheatley
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former slave who became a poet at an early age.
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Jonathan Edwards
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Brilliant new England theologian who instigated the great depression
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