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Liberty, Equality, Power
BCC - US History 101 - Study Guide Notes - Vol 1. (Murrin; 2012)
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How many waves of immigrants settled in the Americas? Where were they from?
Definition

5 waves

3 from Asia

12,000BCE/a few thousand years later/7000BCE

1 from Polynesia/Pacific Islands

1 from Northern Europe (Norse)

Term
What was Beringia?
Definition
600 mile long land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska before the last Ice Age ended.
Term
By what year were people living in Siberia, wester Alaska, and Beringia
Definition
12,000BCE
Term
By what year did people reach Tierra del Fuego (southern tip of South America)?
Definition
8,000BCE
Term
Where did the 3 waves of Asian immigrants settle?
Definition
1st Wave: Spread throughout North and South American and spoke Amerind.
2nd Wave: Came a few thousand years later, spoke Na-Dene, and settled in the Canadian Northwest and American Southwest
3rd Wave: Crossed after 7,000BCE, settled in Northern Canada, and were ancestors of the Inuits
Term
When did immigration from Aleutian Islands and Alaska start?
Definition
About 4,000 years ago
Term
When glaciers receded and climate warmed, what happened?
Definition
People who had gone south and east found an attractive environment teeming with game.
Term
What dramatically improved the hunting ability of humans? And when/where did it appear?
Definition
Clovis spear points appeared in New Mexico and Texas some time before 9,000BCE. They took <1,000 yrs to spread throughout the continents.
Term
What caused the exinction of some species?
Definition
over hunting and climate changes
Term
When the animals became exinct, what happened to the people?
Definition
A lot of them died, others became farmers.
Term
Where did farm villages dominate?
Definition
Parts of Peru, south central Mexico, and Southeastern US
Term
When did the vikings begin to occupy Iceland? What is another name for the vikings?
Definition
874BCE; Norsemen
Term
Where did Erik the Red establish a settlement?
Definition
Greenland in 982CE
Term
When did vikings start exploring the cost of North America? Where did they estblish a North American settlement?
Definition
1001-1014; Vineland (on the northern coast of Newfoundland)
Term
What lead to the colony of Vineland's decline and abandonment?
Definition
Arguements among the inhabitants
Term
After the colony of Vineland was abandoned, did the viking's return to North America? Why?
Definition
Yes, probably for wood
Term
What happened to the Greenland settlement?
Definition
It was abandoned because of neglect, following the Black Death.
Term
Who was the world's most complex culture of the 15th century?
Definition
China, under the Ming Dynasty
Term
What country initiated overseas travel? When? Where to? Why?
Definition
China, between 1405-1434 to the East Indies and coast of East Africa, in order to confirm their belief that they had the superior culture.
Term
What year was the Shenandoah Valley occupied?
Definition
9000 BCE
Term
By when were most large American mammals extinct?
Definition
9000-7000BCE
Term
What 3 things took place in the Americas between 900-1250CE?
Definition
- Toltecs dominate the Valley of Mexico
- Cahokia becomes largest Mississippian mound builders' city
-Anasazi culture thrives in American Southwest
Term
When did the Incas begin to dominate the Andes?
Definition
1400-1450CE
Term
When did the Aztecs begin to dominate Mesoamerica?
Definition
1400-1450CE
Term
When did the Portuguese begin to master the Atlantic coast of Africa?
Definition
1434CE
Term
When was the first Portuguese slave factory established on the Afriacn coast?
Definition
1448CE
Term
When did Dias reach the Cape of Good Hope?
Definition
1487CE
Term
When did the Treaty of Tordesillas divide the non-Christian world between Portugal and Spain?
Definition
1494CE
Term
When did da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and reach India?
Definition
1497-1499CE
Term
When did the Portugues discover Brazil?
Definition
1500CE
Term
When did Balboa cross the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific?
Definition
1513CE
Term
When did Magellan circumnavigate the globe?
Definition
1519-1522CE
Term
When did Cortes conquer the Aztec Empire?
Definition
1519-1522CE
Term
When did de Vaca make make the overland journey from Florida to Mexico?
Definition
1528-1536CE
Term
When did Pizarro conquer the Inca empire?
Definition
1531-1532CE
Term
When did de Soto's expedition explore the American Southwest?
Definition
1540-1542CE
Term
When was the Jesuit mission established at Chesapeake Bay
Definition
1570-1571CE
Term
When did Philip II issue the Royal Order for New Discoveries?
Definition
1573CE
Term
When did Philip II unite the Spanish and Portuguese empires?
Definition
1580CE
Term
What languages are descendents of the 1st wave of Asian settlers to the Americas (Amerind)?
Definition
Algonquian, Iroquaoian, Muskogean, Sioux, Nahuatl (Aztec), Mayan, and all South American tongues
Term
What languages are descendents of the 2nd wave of Asian settlers to the Americas (Na-Dene)?
Definition
Athapaskan languages, Apache, Navajo, and related American Southwest tongues
Term
What languages are descendents of the 3rd wave of Asian settlers to the Americas (Inuits)?
Definition
Eskimos
Term
What superior spear point changed the abilities of hunters?
Definition
Clovis tip
Term
When did the clovis tip appear?
Definition
American Southwest (NM, TX) circa 9,000BCE
Term
After large mammals were hunted to near extinction (circa 9,000 year ago) what were the biggest animals in the Americas?
Definition
Beasts: bears, bison, moose

Cat: Jaguars
Term
Other than hunting and gathering, how did Native Americans get food?
Definition
Farming
Term
Neolithic
Definition
new or late Stone Age
Term
Neolithic Revolution
Definition
Farming and the domestication of animals in Asia and Africa
Term
Neolithic Evolution
Definition
Farming without the domestication of animals in the Americas
Term
When did permenant farm villages begin to dominate parts are Peru, south-central Mexico, northeast Mexico, Europe, the Middle Easte, and East Asia? What did they grow?
Definition
4000-1500BCE

They grew: amaranth (cereal), manioc (tapioca), chili peppers, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, several varieties of beans, maize, white potatoes, tomatoes
Term
Who was Eric the Red?
Definition
Viking leader who had been accused of manslaughter in Noraway and was later outlawed for making trouble in Iceland, lead his Norse follows to Greenland and had the first contact with the Inuits (982-983CE)
Term
Who was Leif Erikson (Erik's son)?
Definition
1001CE - Sailed west from Greenalnd and explored the N. American coast. Started Vinland on the northern coast of Newfoundland. Made 4 total voyages, the last in 1014.
Term
What's the story of Vinland?
Definition
Founded by Norse/Leif Erikson on the northern coast of Newfoundland. Vinland was abandoned due to internal bickering. However, Norse returned to North America - most likely for wood.
Term
What is the modern location of Vinland?
Definition
L'Anse aux Meadows
Term
Why did the Norse colony of Greenland fail?
Definition
circa 1514, the last survivor of Greenland died. Factors: Black Death (1350), little ice age, lost regular contact with their homeland.
Term
When did the Ottoman Turks take Constantinople?
Definition
1453
Term
When did the Ottoman Turks overrun the Balkins?
Definition
1520s
Term
What were the advantages of the European Empire?
Definition
Economy had improved during the middle ages becasue of agricultural advances like improved plows (increase in population)
Term
What caused a decrease in Europe's population 1300-1500?
Definition
Population grew faster than food could support, leaving many starving or mal/under-nourished. The Black Death of the late 1340s reduced the population by more than 1/3.
Term
Why was there population growth in Europe after 1500?
Definition
Soil became fertile again, income rose, and people's immune systems were stronger
Term
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
Definition
Inventor of the printing press and moveable type in 1430s (Germany)
Term
Staple crop of European settlement of 'Kingdom of Jerusalem' - in Palistine.
Definition
Sugar
Term
After Europens were driven from Holy Land, where did they go/what did they do?
Definition
Went to Mediterraneaon Islands of Cyprus, Malta, Crete, and Rhodes, where they used slaves to raise sugar cane or grape vines
Term
Give a short evolution of European slavery.
Definition
1) Moslem captives
2) 14th-15th century Slavs from the Black Sea and Adratic
3) Black slaves, starting from Arab merchants, later from Africa
Term
Why was Portugal able to expand?
Definition
Had internal peace and an efficient government. Location at the intersection of the Mediterranean and Atlantic made its sailors want to know how to create an all-water route to Asia. In the 15th century, they were able to navigate the high sceas eyond the sight of land and they could defeat any non-European fleet on the ocean - they studied wind, currents, were able to mount cannons first. They also made the slave trade an economy.
Term
What did Arab caravans tht were crowwing the Sahara bring from black Africa to Europe? AND How did the Portugeues exploration use to pay for itself?
Definition
gold, slaves, and ivory
Term
What did West Africa trade with Europe?
Definition
Iron, gold
Term
What were the differences between Africans enslaved by Africans and Africans enslaved by Europeans?
Definition
In Africa, slaves were not forced to work themselves to death, separated into a different caste.
Term
When did Bartholomeu Dias reach the Cape of Good Hope & why didn't he go all the way around?
Definition
1487CE; The crew mutanied and they turned around
Term
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Definition
Lead a fleet in 1497CE, which sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and to southwestern India. Voyage lated over 2 years.
Term
What is the Inter Caeteras?
Definition
A bill issued by Pop Alexander VI which divided all non-Christian lands between Spain and Porugal.
Term
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Definition
A treaty that adjusted the dividing line between Spain (giving them the western hemisphere & the Phillipines) and Portugal (giving them the eastern hemisphere, the African coast, & Brazil).
Term
What happened when the Europeans invaded the Americas?
Definition
Created the first global economy because the Europeans brought plants, livestock, disease, slavery, culture, etc
Term
When did the Olmec (people of rubber) empire flourish?
Definition
1200-900BCE
Term
When did Toltecs dominate the Valley of Mexico & Cahokia becomes largest Mississippian mound builders’ city & Anasazi culture thrives in American Southwest
Definition
900-1250CE
Term
Why were people concerned about Columbus' voyage?
Definition
Columbus thought that if he went 3,000 miles west he would reach the East Indies (thought the world was 16,000 mi around); leading scientists of the day thought it was 26,000mi around. It is 25,000 miles around, at the equator.
Term
When did the Portuguese discover Brazil?
Definition
1500CE
Term
When did Cortes conquers the Aztec empire; they were plied with gold to leave the 200K person city of Tenochtitlan, but were consumed by greed and invaded?
Definition
1519CE
Term
When did Pizarro conquers the Inca empire (Andes) and allies the Spanish with the Incas?
Definition
1531-1532CE
Term
When did de Soto’s expedition explore the American Southeast?
Definition
1539 – 1543CE
Term
When did Coronado explore the American Southwest?
Definition
1540 – 1542CE
Term
When was the Jesuit mission established at Chesapeake Bay?
Definition
1570-1571CE
Term
When did Philip II issue Royal Order for New Discoveries?
Definition
1573CE
Term
How did the Portugese expand?
Definition
i. Caravaned across the Sahara
ii. Sailed around African tip
iii. Created colonies and factories along trade routes
iv. Farmed plantations with African slaves
Term
Define hildago
Definition
Spanish minor nobles with little wealth
Term
Who was America named after?
Definition
Amerigo Vespucci (Spanish Explorer)
Term
How did the goals of war differ between Europeans and American Indians?
Definition
i. Europeans wanted to kill people in order to settle matters on the battlefield
ii. American Indians wanted to capture people for sacrifice (Aztec) or adoption to replace members of the tribe (Iroquois)
Term
When did the Salem Witchcraft begin?
Definition
January 1692, in Salem Massachusetts
Term
Who were accused of being witches?
Definition
Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tuchuba. They were not well respected and others thought that they were witches as well. Later she accused well respected Rebecca Nurse.
Term
Who accused the 4 women of being witches?
Definition
Anne Putnam
Term
Did many witchcraft cases go to trial?
Definition
No. If the person did not admit to being a witch it was not easy to prove.
Term
What evidence could be used against someone accused of a witch?
Definition
If they could not recite the Lord's prayer.
Anger to the use of mischief
Spectral evidence (visions of spirits)
Term
Did Sarah Good or Sarah Osborne admit to being witches?
Definition
No.
Term
Did Tuchuba admit to being a witch?
Definition
Yes, and she named Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as witches and they were condemned as witches.
Term
After Anne Putnam named Rebecca Nurse as a witch, why did the judges agree to accept for trial cases that were largely built on spectral evidence?
Definition
The judges were willing to ignore precident because they felt that they were responsible for identifying and punishing sinners in the community. They believed that Gold would not punish the community would not be punished for the sins of the one. They may have believed that many people were sinning and that's why the colony had fallen from Gods favor.
Many Puritans also believed that the apocolypse was upon them and wanted to reform as many as possible before the end of the world.
Term
What tied witchcraft fears to apocolyptic fears?
Definition
Witchcraft accusations from the frontier suggested that the witches were bewitching New England soldiers, so that the soldiers would attack Indians.
Term
How many people were accused, overall, of witchcraft?
Definition
144
Term
How many people brought before the special witchcraft court were charged as guilty and condemned to death? How could one avoid death?
Definition
100% of the guilty were charged as guilty and sentenced to death. However, those who confessed to the crime had their sentences suspended so that they could be used as witnesses against others who did not confess.
Term
When were witches who refused to confess their sins executed and how?
Definition
By summer 1692; they were hanged.
Term
Did Rebecca Nurse confess?
Definition
No.
Term
Did the evidence used against Rebecca Nurse at trial convince the jury?
Definition
No, but the judge convinced the jury to overturn the verdict and sentenced her to death. Her supporters appealed to the governer who overturned the verdict (back to not guilty) and gave her a pardon. However, the court convinced the governer that to not punish a witch would displease God and the pardon was revoked. (guilty again) and in the end Rebecca Nurse was hanged for witchcraft.
Term
Who was the chief sorcerer of all the witches and what happened to him?
Definition
George Burrows was found guilty at his trial. While awaiting the 'Our Father' perfectly, which should have absolved him. But, it did not - as the authorities broke with precident again - and he was executed.
Term
Who is Guiles Cory and what did he do?
Definition
Another man accused of witchcraft in the Salem Trials of 1692. He refused to enter a plea at all, which prevented the trial from proceeding. The judges used pressing to try to get a plea, but he was crushed.
Term
What three cases made the Salem community question the courts zeal to punish witches?
Definition
Rebecca Nurse, George Burrows, Guiles Cory
Term
How long did the witchcraft trials last? What happened to the witches in jail at the end of the trials?
Definition
1 year; those remaining in the jails were slowly released.
Term
What were lasting effects of the witchcraft crisis (trials)?
Definition
Massachusetts communities were open to 'The Enlightment' - using scientific reasoning over superstition; followers of the Enlightment rejected the absolute power of churches and monarchies, which weakened the Puritans power over the government; revered sanctity of law.
Term
Story of Cortes.
Definition
Cortes entered Tenochtitlan in 1519, captured Aztec ruler, Moctezuma, and replaced Aztec diety symbols with Catholic ones. After being run out of the city, and Moctezuma was killed, he returned with an army of a nearby tribe (Tlaxcalans) and attacked the city, laying it to waste and smallpox killed the Aztecs by the thousands.
Term
Story of Pizzaro.
Definition
In 1531-1532, Francisco Pizarro located the Inca Empire. An Incan civil war allowed Pizarro to capture Atahualpa and kill his followers, which earned him allies from the other side. Although a rich ransom was paid for Atahaulpa, Pizarro had him killed anyway. This angered the Incans, who descended on the Spanish by the thousands. However, Pizarro held onto the city and the Spanish established Lima.
Term
What was found in Potosi (Bolivia) that became the source of Spain's wealth for nearly 100 years, starting circa 1545?
Definition
Silver mines
Term
What ailments reduced the population of the Indians of the New World?
Definition
Smallpox, measles, colds which were complicated by pneumonia.
Term
What were staple crops of Brazil and the Carribean?
Definition
tobacco, rice, coffee, and cotton
Term
What technilogical barriers were broken by the mid-18th century, in the new global economy?
Definition
#1 - the use of steel in firearms for military conquest. The use of iron. European acquisition of paper, gunpowder, and the compass - from China.
Term
What were the biological consequences of the new global economy?
Definition
Diseases such as measles, smallpox, and even colds which the New World Indians did not have immunity against, killed by the thousands.
Term
What were the eco-changes due to the new global economy?
Definition
The Columbian Exchange (as named by Historian Alfred Crosby) Wild herbs were planted where settlers settled; horses multipled in great numbers; the sparrow was imported to North America; corn, potatoes, and tomatoes came from the New World back to Europe.
Term
Story of Martin Luther.
Definition
In November 1517, Martin Luthor nailed his 95 Theses to the cathedral door at Wittenberg in Saxony and started the Reformation. He insisted that salvation came through faith alone and that God grants saving faith only to those who hear his word preached to them, struggle to undrstand it, and admit without Gods grace, they are damned.
Term
In what year did Drake circumnavigate the globe?
Definition
1577-1580
Term
In what year did Gilbert claim Newfoundland for England?
Definition
1583
Term
In what year did Raleigh fail to colonize Roanoke Island (twice)?
Definition
1585-1587
Term
In what year did England repel the attack by the Spanish Armada?
Definition
1588
Term
In what year did the English settle Jamestown?
Definition
1607
Term
In what year did Champlain found Quebec?
Definition
1608
Term
In what year did Sandys implement LondonCompany reforms?
Definition
1618
Term
In what year did the first Africans arrive in Virginia?
Definition
1619
Term
In what year was the House of Burgesses and headright system created?
Definition
1619
Term
In what year did the Pilgrims adopt the Mayflower Compact & land in Plymouth?
Definition
1620
Term
In what year was the Dutch West India Trading Company founded?
Definition
1621
Term
In what year did James I asume direct control of Virginia?
Definition
1624
Term
In what year did Minuit found New Amsterdam? In what year did he found New Sweden?
Definition
1626 (Amsterdam) 1638 (New Sweden)
Term
In what year did Puritans settle Massachusetts Bay?
Definition
1630
Term
In what year was Maryland chartered?
Definition
1632
Term
When and by whom were Providence and Hartford founded?
Definition
Providence (Williams) / Hartford (Hooker) - 1636
Term
In what year did Massachusetts enact the Body of Liberties?
Definition
1641
Term
In what year did the English Civil War begin?
Definition
1642
Term
When was Charles I beheaded?
Definition
1649
Term
In what year did the Quakers invade New England?
Definition
Mid-1650s
Term
In what year was Charles II restored to the English throne?
Definition
1660
Term
In what year did the Puritans institue the Half-Way Covenant?
Definition
1662
Term
In what year was the first Carolina charter granted?
Definition
1663
Term
In what year did NJ become a separate colony?
Definition
1665
Term
In what year was Carolina's Fundamental Constitutions proposed?
Definition
1665
Term
In what year did the English establish the first permenant settlement in South Carolina?
Definition
1670
Term
In what year did the Dutch retake NY?
Definition
1673-1674
Term
In what year did west NJ approve Concessions and Agreements?
Definition
1677
Term
In what year was Charleston founded?
Definition
1680
Term
In what year was PA charter granted?
Definition
1681
Term
In what year did NY and PA each adopt a charter of liberties?
Definition
1683
Term
In what year did VA adopt a comprehensive slave code?
Definition
1705
Term
Story of John Calvin.
Definition
John Calvin was a French Protestant that ebraced justificatyion by faith alone. Calvinists rejected the pope, all Catholic sacraments except baptism, and the Lorts Supper, clerical celibacy, veneration of the saints, and the pious rituals of Catholics for salvation
Term
Who were Huguenots?
Definition
Members of the Protestant Reformed Church.
Term
Was Champlain able to unite Catholics and Protestants?
Definition
No.
Term
Brief origins of the Jesuits.
Definition
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) emerged in the 16th century as the Catholic Churche's best-educated and most militant religious order.
Term
What was the difference between the Protestants and the Jesuits trying to convert the Indians?
Definition
The Jesuits saw nothing contradictory about a nation of Christians that retained most of its indian culture.
Term
Characteristics of Dutch republicanism
Definition
Emphasized local liberties, prosperity and, in major cnters such as Amsterdam, religious toleration.
Term
When was the Dutch EAST India Comapny chartered?
Definition
1602
Term
What did refugees near Albany trade with the Mahicans and Iroquois?
Definition
Furs
Term
What were Dutch patroonships?
Definition
Vast estates under a single landlord, mostly along the Hudson. Rensselaerswyck was the only one that thrived.
Term
What did the Dutch trade with the Iroquois in the mid-1600s?
Definition
Dutch sold muskets to the Iroquois to expand their own access to the fur trade.
Term
What was the Pavonia Massacre?
Definition
In 1643, Willem Kieft slaughtered a tribe of Indian Refugees to whom he had granted asylum from other Indians. It set off a war with nearby Algonquian nationas that nearly destroyed New Netherland.
Term
What are the origins of the word "Yankee"?
Definition
Dutch word meaning Land Pirate
Term
Another name for the Puritans and the Protestants?
Definition
Puritans = Non-Separatists.
Protestant = Separatists (denied the Church of England)
Term
What was England's chief export in the mid 16th century?
Definition
woolen cloth
Term
What was the Jamestown staple crop?
Definition
Tobacco (cash crop) & corn
Term
Explain the headright system.
Definition
A colonist received 50 acres for each person whos passage to Virginia he financed. By 1623, Edwin Sandys had shipped 4,000 settlers to Virginia, but the economic diversification program failed.
Term
What was the Toleration Act and when was it instated?
Definition
Granted freedom of worship to Christians in Maryland in 1649.
Term
Staple crops of Virginia.
Definition
Tobacco and Sugar.
Term
Where did the Pilgrams settle in the New World?
Definition
Plymouth, near Cape Cod
Term
Where did the Puritans settle in the New World?
Definition
Massachusetts Bay
Term
Who lead the Puritans at Massachusetts Bay? How many people came?
Definition
Governor John Winthrop lead approx 13,000 settlers, most of which were families.
Term
What were the Puritan's staple crop in the mid-17th century?
Definition
Grain
Term
Explain Massachusett's bicameral legislature by the 1640s.
Definition
Each towns' voters chose reps who met as the Chaber of Deputies, or lowe house. They also elected the governor and the magistrates, or upper house. Magistrates also staffed the county courts. The Court of Assitants wheard major criminal cases and appeals from the counties. The Gneral court heard final appeals, with both houses sitting together to decide judicial questions.
Term
What is the Halfway Covenant?
Definition
The Puritan clergy's answer to the lack of conversions in 1662 - that parents who had not experienced conversion could bring their children to church and have their children baptized.
Term
What was Carolina's biggest business until 1715?
Definition
Indian slave trade
Term
Basic Quaker beliefs.
Definition
All humans had the inner light of God within them and they could become good if they let that light shine forward.
Term
Who created the Free Socity of Traders and what did the FST do?
Definition
William Penn created the Free Soceity of Traders to control commerce with England and give high offices to its members.
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