Chapter 1 Key Terms

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Huguenots

French protestants, heavily persecuted for religion

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Edict of Nantes

Decree that ended religious wars by granting tolerance to Huguenots (1598)

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coureurs de bois

French fur-trappers “runner of the woods”

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voyageurs

“travellers” recruited Native Americans to fur trade business

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Protestant Reformation

Protestants vs. Catholics; King Henry left Roman Catholic Church

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Roanoke Island

Founded by Virginia Company, Est. by Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke colony mysteriously disappeared

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Spanish Armada

fleet warships led by King Philip II attempt invasion England; Defeat → fall of Spanish Emp.

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primogeniture

law only eldest son can inherit land, forced younger ones to move out to find fortune elsewhere

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joint-stock company

Investors pool capital and share profits & losses

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Virginia Company

joint-stock comp. chartered by King James I for settlement in New World; founded Jamestown

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charter

legal doc. define privileges; Virginia Comp. guaranteed all settlers same rights regardless of location

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Jamestown

First permanent Eng. settlement in North America

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First Anglo-Powhatan War

Powhatans vs. Eng. settlers; Eng. used Irish tactics; end w/ peace settlement interracial union (1609-14)

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Second Anglo-Powhatan War

Native Am. last effort kick out Virginians; peace settlement perm. separated Indians and whites (1644-46)

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New Netherland

Est. by Dutch West India Comp. for quick profit fur trade; prosperous but absorbed by Eng. (1623-24)

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Iroquois Confederacy

Bound together by Five Indian Nations; founded by Deganawidah and Hiawatha, in present-day New York