chapters 2-3 de US history notes

chapters 2-3 de us history notes

who was the earliest explorer of new France?

Cartier

who was De la Salle?

who was he under?

he had a vision for the new French north American empire.

under louis xiv

what were the population of new France colonies like?

very small especilly compared to english

what religion were new France colonies?

rigoudly catholic

who controlled new France colonies?

the crown

what did the new France colonies primarlly trade and where?

fur (prolly beaver) on the great lakes and in river valleys.

what kind of relationship did the new France colonies have with natives

positive

what trides did the new France colonies intermarage with?

hurons and iroquois

how did the new France colonies handle religion with the natives?

they tried to get them to convert to Catholicism but didn't force it.

what year did Columbas descover the Americas

1492

what is the treaty of tordesillas?

spain claimed the new world and split in in half taking the west and giving the east and brazil to portugal and brazil

who are the 3 famous Spanish conquistadors?

cortez, pizzaro, balboa

Who established the encomienda system and what was it

the Spanish

plantations system in mexico where indians were given to colonists and they tried to Christianize them

who did the new Spain colonies enslave

natives at first then Africans

who used the caste system?
what are the levels on the caste system and what do they mean?

Spain

peninsulars- Spanish born from Spain

mestizos- intermarriage/ both native and Spanish descent

natives- natives

what happens to the natives as a result of the new Spain colonies

the pueblos fight back burning Catholic churches and killing priests but eventully they are stopped and loose contol of their land.

what is a mission town?

a place where catholic Spanish colonizers (missonaries) aimed to convert natives to Catholicism

what tribe is free from the control of the new Spain colonies

Navahos

in english colonies who had family unit economy and what is that I guess?

the North

selling fur, shipbuilding, artisans and farming

which side had plantaintons and yomen farming and what is that?

the south

yomen farming= farming when you don't own the land but you only farm to survive.

what is the english colonies relationship with the natives like?

there is trading at first then it becomes very strained. the English force the natives west werd and out of low lands.

what is Calvinism?

followers of John Calvin

what is predestination?

a belief of puritans and Calvinism that God already has decided where youll go when you die from birth.

what do puritans want to do to the church of England

reform it

who established the Plymouth colony

pilgrims from the mayflower.

who is the military commander of Plymouth colony?

Myles Standish

what was the mayflower compact

a social contract that allowed the people of Plymouth colony to to create a government that will represent themselves.

what is a covenant community in Plymouth

plymouth people pledged to do gods work in hopes he would bless them.

what was the effect of the mayflower compact

no toleration of deviance or disorder.

who is the native that speecks english that is going to help clonists of Plymouth survive?

Squanto

how many people live in plymouth

7000

who is the governor of plymouth

william Bradford

what are blue/sumptuary laws (3 rules)

religous laws

everyone must attend church

no drinking, dancing or singing

town of 50 or more families must build a school

what is the saying for Plymouth bay

beaver and bible

where and when was the Massachusetts bay colony founded?

1630 around Boston

what was the great migration.

when Massachusetts bay colony got a ton of new colonists

who is the governor of Massachusetts bay colony

John Winthrop

what was the 3 main factors of the economy in the Massachusetts bay colony

fishing (cod), shipbuilding, and fur trading

what is the saying for Massachusetts bay colony

cod and God

what was the 3 (important) layers of the government structure for the Massachusetts bay colony

govoner

general court

freemen-ppl who could vote- had to be one of the elect

(established town meetings)

4 key puritan beliefs

based on gods laws - ‘bible common wealth’

predestination

can’t earn salvation from doing good but it can be a sign

congregation elected ministers (John cotton)

what is an elect in terms of the puritans

someone who was given a sign from god (normally in a dream)

who founded georgia?

james oglethorpe

who made the rule in Virginia of if you don't work you don't eat.

john smith.

what tribe is in peru and who crushed them

Incas and francisco pizarro

what tribe is in central America

mayans

what tribe is in mexico

Aztecs

what is the iroquois confederacy

a political and organizational system that created a milatary alliance with the natives and europeans

what is the columbian exchange

the exchange of crops animals and disease between the western and eastern hemispheres - FIRST CONTACT

what is the house of burgesses

a representative self government in Virginia

who was the first person to attempt to circumnavigate the globe and half succeed due to proxy.

ferdinand Magellan