Studied by 0 people
Looks like no one added any tags here yet for you.
headright system
a system in which parcels of land were granted to settlers who could pay their own way to Virginia
indenture
a labor contract that promised young men, and sometimes women, money and land after they worked for a set period of years
Jesuits
members of the Society of Jesus, an elite Catholic religious order founded in the 1540s to spread Catholicism and to combat the spread of Protestantism
maroon communities
groups of runaway slaves who resisted recapture and eked a living from the land
Middle Passage
the perilous, often deadly transatlantic crossing of slave ships from the African coast to the New World
musket
a light, long-barreled European gun
patroonships
large tracts of land and governing rights granted to merchants by the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage colonization
repartimiento
a Spanish colonial system requiring Indian towns to supply workers for the colonizers
Timucua
the native people of Florida, whom the Spanish displaced with the founding of St. Augustine, the first Spanish settlement in North America
wampum
shell beads used in ceremonies and as jewelry and currency
What was the Middle Passage?
transatlantic journey
How did European muskets change life for native peoples in the Americas?
Inflicted war among natives and gave weaker tribes an upper hand
Compare and contrast European and Native views on property.
Europeans commercially, Natives hunting
Juan Ponce de León
Conquistador who explored present-day Florida
Pedro Menéndez
founded St. Augustine, FL
St. Augustine
Oldest city in the U.S.
Sir Francis Drake
destroyed St. Augustine with 20 ships and 100 men
Castillo de San Marcos
the fort in St. Augustine built by the Spanish between 1672-1695
Juan de Oñate
Spanish explorer and conquistador. He claimed New Mexico for Spain in 1598 and served as its governor until 1607.
Santa Fe
capital of the kingdom of New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt
Native American revolt against the Spanish in late 17th century; expelled the Spanish for over 10 years; Spain began to take an accommodating approach to Natives after the revolt
Peter Stuyvesant
The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.
Fort Amsterdam
a fort built on the tip of Manhattan
Wall Street
protective wall built to protect New Amsterdam and became a famous street in present day
Dutch West India Company
(1621-1794) Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Samuel de Champlain
Founded Quebec as French fur-trading outpost
Algonquian
Natives the French relied on and supported.
Beaver Wars
series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640s and 1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region
Katerine Tekakwitha
A Mohawk princess who converted to Christianity and became a healer and missionary to Native Americans before her death as a martyr at age 24.
patriarchy
A form of social organization in which males dominate females
Smallpox
a disease that causes a high fever and often death
encomienda system
It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity
Jesuit Relations
A journal the Jesuits used to record their accomplish year round
House of Burgesses
1619 - The Virginia House of Burgesses formed, the first legislative body in colonial America. Later other colonies would adopt houses of burgesses.
Royal African Company
A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)
Timucua
the native people of Florida, whom the Spanish displaced with the founding of St. Augustine, the first Spanish settlement in North America
Pope
Pueblo religious leader led revolt
royalists
supporters of government by a monarch; used as a name for supporters of England's King Charles I
parliamentarians
Supporters of Parliament, who fought the Royalists during the English Civil War.
Powhatan
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia
John Smith
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
Lord Baltimore
Founded the colony of Maryland and offered religious freedom to all Christian colonists. He did so because he knew that members of his own religion (Catholicism) would be a minority in the colony.
Sir Hans Sloane
english naturalist credited with popularizing drinking chocolate
New Spain
After the defeat of the Aztecs, it was a Spanish colony. Its capital was Mexico City.
Pueblo Indians
Southwest US Indians, built large irrigation systems, adobe structures
New France
French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763.
New Netherlands
A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York.
Beverwijck
Dutch site of fur trading
Quebec
First permanent French settlement in North America, founded by Samuel de Champlain
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
The Starving Time
The winter of 1609 to 1610 colonists of Virginia. Only sixty members of the original four-hundred colonists survived. The rest died of starvation because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the new world.
Maryland
Colony originally founded as a haven for Roman Catholics
