HIS 201 Active Recall Study Guide Chapters 1-5
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Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering the key terms, figures, and events from Chapters 1 through 5 of the HIS 201 lecture notes.
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Bering Land Bridge
The geographical feature that connected Asia and North America.
Siberia
The region from which the first inhabitants of North America likely came.
Clovis
The earliest widely recognized Native American culture.
Cahokia
The largest Mississippian city.
Chaco Canyon
A major Anasazi settlement.
Aztecs
The culture located in Mexico.
Native American disease vulnerability
A lack of immunity to European diseases resulting from having few domesticated animals.
European exploration motives
Wealth, Christianity, trade, and power.
Prince Henry the Navigator
The individual who sponsored Portuguese exploration.
Columbus's voyages
Extending to four total trips, using the ships named Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
Amerigo Vespucci
The individual after whom America was named.
Walter Raleigh
The person who sponsored the Roanoke colony.
Columbian Exchange
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people.
Martin Luther
The individual who started the Protestant Reformation.
John Calvin
The theologian who taught the doctrine of predestination.
Henry VIII
The ruler who created the Church of England.
Jamestown
The first permanent English colony.
John Smith
The individual who helped Jamestown survive.
John Rolfe
The person who introduced tobacco to the colonies.
House of Burgesses
The first representative government in the English colonies.
Mercantilism
The economic theory that colonies existed to benefit England.
Navigation Acts
Laws enacted to control colonial trade.
Bacon's Rebellion
A frontier revolt that occurred in Virginia.
Tobacco
The main crop of the Chesapeake region.
Rice
The main crop of South Carolina.
Puritans
A group that wanted to reform the Church of England.
Separatists/Pilgrims
A group that wanted to leave the Church of England.
Mayflower Compact
An agreement regarding self-government.
Roger Williams
The founder of Rhode Island.
William Penn
The founder of Pennsylvania.
Quakers
A religious group that believed in religious freedom.
Salem
The location where the Salem Witch Trials occurred.
St. Lawrence River
The river that served as the center of French settlement.
Jesuits
French missionaries.
Natural increase
A condition where the number of births exceeds the number of deaths.
Great Awakening
A period of religious revival.
George Whitefield
A traveling revival preacher.
Jonathan Edwards
A fire-and-brimstone preacher.
Enlightenment
A movement focused on reason and science.
Benjamin Franklin
The leading American figure of the Enlightenment.
Task system
A labor system where slaves completed specific tasks and then had personal time.
California
The location of Spain's last major colonial project.