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| The "founder" of the America; believed to be discovering India, part of Asia. He hoped to turn the peoples of Asia into Christian soldiers to obliterate Islam, and reclaim Jerusalem for Christians. Hit land at the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola. Paintings depicts Columbus's account of his journey, in which the natives are viewed as no more than savages, who benefit from European and Christian colonization. |
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“Did you ever knowe of any that were pyratts for millions?
Only they that risk for small things are pyratts.” |
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| Walter Raleigh describing Francis Drake. |
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| Elizabeth I’s Reasons to Colonize North America |
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1.to provide new bases to raid Spanish
shipping in the Caribbean,
2.to create trading posts where the
English could sell their goods to
Indians,
3.to create plantations on which they
could grow crops to export back to
London for sale
4. and, to create a place to settle all the poor people crowding into London
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| Funded the expedition that founded the colony of Roanoke in 1584. However, in 1590, when the ships arrived to check on the progress of the colony, they found that all of the colonists had vanished. |
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| A unfree worker (generally a white European) who is bound by a contract to labor for five to seven years for a master. In return, the master provides basic food and shelter, and, perhaps, a cash reward or a grant of land upon finishing the term of years. |
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| They were members of the English Protestant Chrsitian Church, also known as Anglicans. However, they sought to purify aspects of their religion in order to form a more direct relationship with God. |
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| Mayor of the Boston Puritan colony, he upheld all Puritan qualities. Told off dissenting woman Anne Hutchinson for accusing the Church of being too loose and not pure enough. Famous Quote about stepping outside of roles. |
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| Was the founder of Pennsylvania. The Quakers were egalitarian and pacifists, and generally sat in silence at religious until the spirit moved one of them to speak. |
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| Native Americans signing over their land |
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| At first they were happy to do so, exchanging the land for good, not believing that land was privately exclusive. |
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Refers to beads made from seashells. It was used as currency (and as a ceremonial record-keeping device) for many Eastern Indian Tribes. Between 1634 and 1664 white New Englanders exchanged
7 million beads of this native currency for furs which they sold for profit in England. |
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| Puritans and their Indian allies massacred the village, decimating all within. |
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| Creater of Indian Praying Towns. Preacher who learned the Algonquains language just to teach them they ways of his religion. Wrote many papers in that language to promote said conversions. Most of the Indians who joined his praying towns were from the smallest or weakest bands of Indians. |
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| Daniel Gookin on the Indians Praying |
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They worship “with reverence, attention, modesty, and solemnity; the men-kind
sitting by themselves and the women-kind by themselves, according to their age, quality, and degree, in a comely manner.” |
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| Metacom/King Philip's War |
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| Also known as King Philip, was an Indian leader who was shot by the Puritans and simply displayed around Plymouth. King Philip's War was the bloodiest war in American history, most percentage of American population was lost, and the balance of power shifted from the Indians to the colonists. |
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By the 1710s, the Yamasee Indians, the local group that Carolina leaders have coopted as armed slave-catchers, are in debt to colonial traders as they buy additional weapons to exterminate their
Indian rivals. |
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| New Englanders and Witchcraft |
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| Any event that happened, large or small, required interpretation by the citizens. People looked for the presence of the devil in many citizens. The devil was understood to be a fallen angel. |
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| Prior to the Salem Witch Trials, at least 100 people were accused of witchcraft. During the Salem Trials, 200 more people were accused. 19 more people were executed in 1692 in Salem. |
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| Accusations of witchcraft |
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| Accusations generally arose in response to extremley ordinary, but unexplained events in the community. Tended to arise from social tensions as well. |
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| They were the catalyst for the Salem witch trials. When Rev. Parris's daughters began having unexplained fits, people attributed to the nefarious influence of Satan. They blamed three people, one of whom was Bridget Bishop, who was later executed on those charges. Rev. Parris also beat a slave named Tituba into confessing to her sins. |
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| The only one of the five judges to apologize for his role in the Salem Witch Trials. Later on, the court began to issue finincial reparations for the families of those who were jailed, and even pardoned those who were convicted and executed. |
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| The First Great Awakening |
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| A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies from 1730 to 1770. Associated with the Baptists, Methodist, and passionate preaching. |
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| In the south, Anglicans were having trouble reaching people, and in the North, many Puritan churched lacked full-time members. Edwards's church in 1735 had one of the first revivals of the Great Awakening. |
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| Early Puritan minister, believed that man in damned, needs God's forgiveness to be saved. |
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| some very good preachers went from town to town, preaching the word to citizens with their impressive oration. |
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| A region in which slavery is the most dominant or exclusive form of labor. |
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“The planters do not want to be told that their Negroes are human creatures. If they believe them to be of human kind, they cannot regard them… as no better than dogs or horses.” (An English
visitor to Jamaica) |
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| Near the Stono River, nearly 80 armed slaves burned down 7 plantation and killed 20 white people on their way to Spanish Florida. |
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| Runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous, forested, or swampy regions and built their own self-governing communities. |
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| 25 slaves set fire to barns and outhouse on the edge of the city. When the neighbors arrived to put out the blaze, they were set upon by the slaves, who killed or wounded 20 of them. 18 of the slaves were executed, their head displayed on spikes throughout the town. |
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| There were gold coins stolen from a store, and slaves were suspected. Caesar Varick and Prince Auboyneau were later arrested. Maidservant Mary Burton then began to testify about John Hughson's criminal activities. There was then a fire at Fort George where a slave named Quaco Roosevelt was seen fleeing the scene. New York officials began to search slave homes. Mary Burton then told the same officials that there was a slave conspiracy. All accused parties are found guilty and executed in various ways. |
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| Jumonville's Glen: the effective start to the seven years war, where the French commander Jumonville was brutally killed and his blood used to wipe the Indian killers hands. |
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