Chapter 1 - A Meeting of Three Worlds
History 109 with Weeks at San Diego State University
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Who Built America? Volume One: To 1877: Working People and the Nation's History
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Guanahani
the island Columbus & his crew landed on in 1492. later named Hispaniola
Amerigo Vespucci
an explorer
Tenochtitlan
Aztec Capital city
Cahokia
largest town near present-day St. Louis; housed at least 10,000 people before it went into decline in the 13th century.
Iroquois Confederacy
Included: Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, & Seneca
Confederacy formed to reduce combat conflicts between them. Aggravated tensions with other groups however.
Confederacy formed to reduce combat conflicts between them. Aggravated tensions with other groups however.
Colombian Exchange
European contact with Africa and the Americas initiated an exchange of flora, fauna, and microorganisms between ecosystems that had hitherto been isolated from one another.
Hernan Cortes
Leader of a Spanish expedition in 1518 to conquer Mexico
Captured Tenochtitlan
"for King, God, and Gold"
Captured Tenochtitlan
"for King, God, and Gold"
Black Death
plague in the 1340s
War of the Roses
the ascent of the Tudor dynasty in England in 145 ended the long baronial feuding.
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther and other reformers revolt to the spread of Catholicism in Germany & Northern Europe
Mali Empire
Centered in the Niger River Valley; largest empire in 15th century.
Reconquista
Spains Catholic rulers and nobles had attepted to drive out or convert Islamic settlers in the south of Spain
St. Augustine
Oldest continually occupied European settlement in the U.S.
Founded by Spain in 1565
Founded by Spain in 1565
Encomienda
- A system developed by Cortes by the mid 1520 used until the late 17th century to provide labor for missions, mines and large farms.
- Provoked Indian resistance, and banished after 1570s
Bartolome de Las Casas
Priest, who for half a century denounced the slaughter and ill treatment of New World peoples and the common Spanish assumption that natives were "slaves by nature"
Triangular Trade
European goods to Africa, slaves to America, and New World produce back to Europe.
Middle Passage
Decks below in a ship designed to carry the largest number of people in the smallest possible space for the transatlantic voyages
Fort Orange
Established by the Dutch; Albany
Mayflower
Pilgrims' ship used to arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts
coureurs de bois
- French fur traders and scouts; "forest runners"
- Fur trade overwhelmingly employed men, many of whom intermarried with Indians
métis
substantial mixed race
French and Indian War
French chose to give up New France in return for keeping wealthier Caribbean sugar islands.
Henry VIII
- Confiscated vast amounts of church land and granted it to his supporters among the aristocracy and gentry.
- Enhanced lawmaking powers of Parliament
enclosure
fenced off common land on which tenants had relied for part of their livelihoods
Indentured servants
servants who were promised land at the end of their terms of service
Pocahontas
- Real name: Matoaks als Rebecka
- Saved John Smith from execution when he was captured by the Algonquians in 1607.
- First indian of "royal blood" brought to England for edification and entertainment of the nobility
- Powhatan's daughter; married to Englishman John Rolfe.
Puritans
- Protestant reformers; distrusted the policies of the Stuart kings James I and Charles I
- gentry, village craftsmen, small landowners, urban merchants and artisans
Massachusetts Bay Company
- Organized exploration and trade
- Charter granted it political and economic rights in New England and unusually failed to require that company meetings be held in England.
- formed in 1629
Roger Williams
Minister who led followers into nearby Rhode Island to found a colony that would beome a haven for exiles from Puritan orthodoxy.
Quakers
stressed authority of the divine "inner light" in all believers, condemned religious, civil, and social hierarchy.
Samuel de Champlain
- Trader, soldier, explorer, diplomat, and author.
- Set up a small trading post in Quebec
- Fought with tribes against the Iroquois.
- Traded guns with the Native Americans
Narragansetts
Helped English destroy the Pequots, soon began to ponder their own prospects for survival
King Phillip
Wampanoag tribe's Leader AKA Metacom.
Maked defeat of armed native resistance in eastern and southern New England
Maked defeat of armed native resistance in eastern and southern New England
About this deck
By: Steven Tran
Textbook: Who Built America? Volume One: To 1877: Working People and the Nation's History
Created: 2011-06-09
Size: 33 flashcards
Views: 149
Textbook:
Who Built America? Volume One: To 1877: Working People and the Nation's HistoryCreated: 2011-06-09
Size: 33 flashcards
Views: 149
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