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Early Amerircan Hist
AMH
The trading of goods,animals and disease was known as? | Columbian Exchange |
In 1492 he discovered the Bahamas that he mistook for the Far East. | Christopher columbus |
What were the names of the three ships Columbus sailed to the new world on? | Nina, Pinta, And the Santa Maria |
They sponsored Christoper Columbus west ward expedition and set Spain on her course for developing vast empire in the western hemisphere | Ferdinand and Isabella from Spain |
In 1499 he discovered the new world wasn't Asia and published his findings on this new continent | Amerigo Vespucci |
He was a Venetian that was sponsored by King Henry V11 he explored the coast of N.America 1497-1498 | John Cabot |
In 1513 the spanish establish a province in Cuba. Who was the governor who also went to Florida in search of treasure and fountain of youth? | Ponce De Leon |
In 1519 he lead an expedition from Cuba and began the conquest of the Aztec Empire | Hernando Cortez |
In 1531 He captured the Incan Fortress "Sacsayhuaman" which led to the fall of the Inca Capitol Cusco | Fransico Pizarro |
The Incas built this high in the Andes mountains | Machu Picchu |
In 1610 spanish take over the golden city of Cibola. They made Sante Fe the new royal province. Who lead them | Juan De Onate |
Spanish used this to force Indian land and labor. Under this control many natives were worked to death | Encomienda System |
In 1680 the spanish had almost taken over all Pueblo land. Who lead the revolt that drove the spanish out of New Mexico for a decade? | Pueblo Shaman Pope |
He lead the French challenge to Spain, new Mexico adn explored the Gulf of St Lawrence then established a short lived colony in 1541 | Jacques Cartier |
In 1608 he followed Cartier 1/2 a century later & established colonies in Nova Scotia, Quebec as the capitol of New France | Samuel de Champion |
In 1682 he followed the Mississippi river to Gulf of Mexico he found New Orleans and claimed it for France and King Henry X1V. | Robert la Salle |
In 1577 He charged S.America and began to attack ships for England then went west ward following Magellan 1519 | Sir Francis Drake |
What seven European people or nations were responsible for discovery and expedition of the New World? | Scandinavins/vikings, Italians Columbus & Vespucci, Dutch/Netherlands, Spanish Isabella & Ferninand, Portugese, French and English |
In 1587 he established an English colony off the coast of the N.Carolina on Roanke Island. The war with Spain would hold up their return voyage for 3 years. When they returned they found the word "Croaton" carved in the fence post | Sir Walter Raleigh he est English colony |
The first English permanent colony.Established 1607 along the James river in Chesapeake bay | Jamestown |
He had strick work orders no work = no food he traded with the Indians which improved relations | Captain John Smith |
A way to offer land. The Virginia company offered land to anyone willing to go to the new world or pay someones passage.They had 50% chance of dying | Headrights |
1639 "Foundamental Orders" Consensual government was not limited to church members, freedom | Connecticut Colony |
Confederation of tribes that played the Europeans off against each other allowing the Iroquois to hold on to their land & even expand it/ they were the fearcest fighters | Irquois League |
He challenged secular authority of puritan leadership in Massachusettes calling for "Separation of church and state" he was banished from Massachusette | Roger Williams |
In 1638 her charismatic preaching and challenge of puritan it society led to her banishment from Massachusettes in 1638. She went to Rhode Island home for dissenters | Anne Hutchinson |
Massachusettes became christian common wealth, w/voting limited to church members & church leadership in charge of the secular government. This lead to problems | John Winthrop |
The Carolinas' establih colony began 1669 funding if Charlestown. The propriety colonies would have religious freedom & ethnic plurglism | Charlestown |
In 1681 The Quaker bargained for indian land for colonies of Pennsylvania. Created a flexible government allowing change depending on the run of each town and city | William Penn |
In 1634 Maryland colony was founded under religious reasons. "Catholic" colony "St. Mary" named after virgin Mary founded as a catholic refuge. Land granted to Lord Baltimore. Refuge for English catholic | St. Mary |
in 1620 a group of Puritans sailed west landing outside jurisdiction. This aboard the Mayflower signed"compact" creating consensual government. 1/2 people w/Puritans Plymoth | Mayflower Compact |
In 1637 Massachusettes & Connetticut settlers w/help of the Narragenot Indians oversaw complete dissolution and enslavement to take over Pequot tribes land | Pequot War |
In 1732 he est Georgia colony as a barrier to Spanish Florida.Envisioned as christian, Utopia, the colony banded rum and slavery | James Olge Thorpe |
1664 the Dutch est. New Amsterdam 1626 Charles II granted land to his brother Duke Of York. 1664 an English fleet & soldiers seized the city for England and renamed it New York | New York |
1630 est. under commercial charter to north of Plymouth w/charter in hand Puritans soon took political control of this colony. North of Plymouth create puritan common wealth | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Contracted servants work for fixed # of years in return for transportation to the New World. 4-7 years of work for freedom,tools,money,clothes and food | Indentured servants |
1692 20 people killed, more than 100 others arrested-until governors wife got arrested then the governor released everyone. Feuds & property disputes could have led to some of those persecutions | Salem Witch Trials |
In 1735 he was charged w/slander when he critised the governor of New York. He wasnt lying "freedom of speech" he was found innocent. Newspapers used this to judge officials more | John Peter Zenger trial |
Baptized children of church members could be admitted to this membership. They couldn't vote nor take communion | Halfway Membership |
Burst of intellectual activity."Rational inquiry,scientific discovery & individual freedom."Age of discovery"John Edwards &George Whitfield | The Enlightment |
Religious movement,stresses devote repentest promising individual salvation & was beyond the control of Puritan church | The Great Awakening |
1691 English crown issued requiring toleration of dissenter & changing the right to vote to be based on property holding, rather than church membership | Massachusetts Royal Charter of 1691 |
The shortage of indentured servants caused the need for more laborors | Growth of Slavery |
Charles II restored to the throne. All trade would now be controlled by the mother country.Colonies would be exploited for new materials & act as Markets for finished goods from England | Mercantile System |
Series of laws England passed over 75 years beginning 1760 that affected colonial trade. The colonies began smuggling to avoid trade restritions | Navigation Acts |
English Lords moved to replace catholic King James II w/protestant daughter & her husband."William & Mary" They assumed the throne 1688. The change set a further precedent of revolt against the monarch. Lack of blood shed | Glorious Revolution |
Certain counsel members of the king.This group would enforce that the colonies served England's economic interest. "The Lords began appointing "custom officials" to enforce these policies | Lords of Trade |
Such as Governor Dobbs "They held authority over most colonial matters & answered only to King & parliament. This increased resentment in American colonies | Royal Governors |
Catholic King James II came to the throne w/the death of his brother Charles II. He moved for greater control of the colonies by establishing this____. Creating one large colony out of New England & including New York colonies | Dominion of New England |
In 1688 he was appointed as royal governor of Dominion of New England "giant colony, he answered only to praliament & the king, He disbanded colonial assemblies in New England,levy new taxes, & clamped down on smuggling. He alienated New England colonist | Edmund Andros |
They controlled the money. The governor increased in power but still had to go to the colonial assembly as they controlled the $$. This limited his power to some degree | Colonial Assembly |
1696 replaced the Lord of Trade. This new board was given greater Administrative powers over colonial affairs by Parliament which further alienated the colonist | Board of Trade |