US History 1301 Terms (1)

Columbian Exchange

transmission of disease, non-human animals, plants, and human-created goods

Pueblo Rebellion of 1680

war to protect territory and sovereignty. took place in northern region of Spanish empire, natives organized and forced spanish out of mexico to preserve autonomy against the spanish.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

due to a growing social pressure for land in Virginia, two individuals posed two ideas which opposed each other. this caused controversy that eventually led to rebellion.

William Berkley: large landowner who believed that attempting to gain land would increase warfare with native people (appealed to large landowners)

Nathanial Bacon: became a voice for discontented colonists that wanted an opportunity to gain land and status by encouraging colonists to push further inland and take the land from indigenous people (appealed to lower status landowners)

Headright System

allowed free men who paid for their transport/transport of others to receive 50 acres

indentured servant would also receive 50 acres if they survived their term (low odds)

Powhatan

meant “densely inhabited land”

a confederacy of Algonquin speaking villages

english name for Wahunsenacawh (leading chief of confederacy)

Great Migration

comprised primarily of families (1630-1640), came mostly from “middling status” (people with enough wealth to migrate by their own choice, shared common view of how religion should inform society)

New Birth Experience

spiritual experience in which through a process of prayer and introspection, you believe that you are part of the “elect”

Providence Plantation

established in 1636, eventually became Rhode Island colony, established on religious freedom

Roger Williams - “Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils,”

Anne Hutchinson

defied that women were spiritually but not socially equal to men, banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637

King Philip’s War (1675-1676)

metacom (king philip), major conflict between english and natives because of native’s intent to preserve sovereignty and land, bloodiest conflict in american history

Half-Way Covenant

adopted by some NE churches in 1662, alternative to full church membership, baptized adults that were not yet part of the elect could still baptize their children

Indentured Servitude

a form of servitude where a person signs a contract to labor for another (term basis) as a form to repay debt (by choice)