Dual Enrollment chapter 3

the nearly 2 month transatlantic voyage that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas, many died during the voyage

middle passage

Communities created by escaped enslaved people who resisted recapture

maroon communities

the most prized European weapon that native Americans sought through trade

Musket

natives intensified harvesting these animals to trade with Europeans for alcohol and other goods

beaver

perhaps the single greatest impact of European colonization on North America, this devastated native populations

disease

colonies whose development was shaped by tabacco, plantation agriculture and slavery

cheasepeake colnies

colonies that developed a society and economy different from the Chesapeake, these differences contributed to later north-south divisions

new England colonies

historians believe differences between the Chesapeake colonies helped create the fault lines that later separated the north and south

north-south divide

English joint stick company that founded and a controlled early Virginia, investors provided capital, accepted risk and expected profit

Virginia company of London

a company in which investors provided capitol, share, risk, and hope to earn profits

joint stock company

a labor contract in which an impoverished English person agreed to work for usually 5-7 years in exchange for passage to America, a long with food, clothing, and lodging

indenture

an English man or woman who signed a document and worked for a set number of years in the Chesapeake

indentured servant

food, provision, and sometimes land given to a indentured servant after completing their contract

freedom dues

a system giving 50 acres to people who paid their own passage to Virginia, plus 50 additional acres for each servant or family member they brought

headright system

a system that legally defined Africans as property rather than people and became the dominant labor system for tobacco in Virginia and maryland

chattel slavery

an uprising of white and black people who opposed virginia’s government over access to land, wealth, and native American conflicts it hastened the transition to African slavery

bacons rebellion

large tracts of land granted by the Dutch to wealthy investors, a long with the right to govern tenants

patroonships

members of the society of Jesus, founded in the 1540s to spread Catholicism and combat Protestantism

jesuits

a Spanish colonial labor system that gave recipients control over native labor with expectations to defend the colony and teach Christianity

ecomienda

a Spanish labor system that required native towns to supply a pool of labor for Spanish overlords

repartimiento

spanish explorer who claimed the are around St Augustine for Spain in 1513 while searching for the fountain of youth

juan Ponce de leon

the name Ponce de Leon gave the area around Florida in 1513, it refers to the feast of flowers or known as Easter

pascua

spanish settlement founded by Pedro Mendez in 1565, the oldest European founded settlement in the continental US

st augustine

capitol of the kingdom of New Mexico and later a outpost of the Spanish viceroyalty of New spain

sante fe

a coordinated Pueblo rebellion against Spanish rule in 1680 that killed over 400 Spain raids and drove the remaining settlers south toward mexico

pueblo revolt