Terms and Ideas - Unit I: PREHISTORY to REVOLUTION
PREHISTORY
Prehistory
Bering
Strait
Beringia
NATIVE AMERICANS
GREAT CIVILIZATIONS
-Maya
-Incas
-Aztecs
-Montezuma
NORTH AMERICA
-matrilinear
-matriarchal?
-“false gods”
-relationship with the land
-Who owns the land?
-King Phillip
-Powhatan
-The three brutal Ds
disease
disorganization
disposability
Relationships with:
-Spanish
-French
-English
-Dutch
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EARLY EXPLORATION
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Henry the Navigator
astrolabe
caravel
Amerigo Vespucci
RESULTS OF COLONIZATION
papal line of demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Columbian Exchange
FRENCH PRESENCE
New France ☺ Catholicism ☺
Huguenots ☺ coureurs de bois ☺
fur-trading company Jesuits ☺
“seigneuries” ☺“engages” ☺ Acadians
SPANISH AMERICA
EARLY AGRICULTURE
“soil butchery”
staple crop
tobacco
John Rolfe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Labor Systems
role of women
ECONOMICS $
Columbian Exchange
mercantilism
triangular trade
opportunity
-Masterless men
colonies
-proprietary
-royal
-charter
FFV’s
blue bloods
almshouse
Labor Systems
*Indentured servants
-“freedom dues”
-headright system
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-Middle Passage
THE BRITISH
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-African Diaspora
Francis Drake
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
nation-state
Moors
Reconquista
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
conquistador
Hernando Cortez
Gold, Glory and God
encomienda / enconmiendero
Juan de Oñate
Father Junipero Serra
presidios
missions
mestizos
pueblos
Camino Real
Papal line of demarcation
peninsulares
St. Augustine, Florida
Treaty of Tordesillas
“black legend”
“white legend”
Sir Walter Raleigh
charter
Jamestown
joint-stock company
primogeniture
“surplus population”
Barbados slave code
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Company
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New England Confederation
Dominion of New England
Chesapeake region
Scotch-Irish
James Oglethorpe
Zenger case
William Pitt
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INTELLECTUALS
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Poor Richard’s Almanack
Common Sense
-Thomas Paine
-significance
Phillis Wheatley
*ENGLIGHTENMENT
-deism
-John Locke
-Montesquieu
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THE DUTCH
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Henry Hudson
Dutch West India Company
patrons
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
1664
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ARTISTS
Charles Wilson Peale
John Trumbull
Benjamin West
ARCHITECTURE
simpler dwellings
Georgian style
Hammond-Harwood House
RELIGION IN EARLY AMERICA
COLONIAL REGIONS
This will be discussed during the first two weeks
of school.
Protestant Reformation
Puritanism
PURITANS
-Pilgrims
-Separatists
-predestination
-freemen
-“visible saints”
- “A city upon a hill”
-“Protestant work ethic”
-providence (religious definition)
-heresy
-calling
DISSENTERS
*Roger Williams
--Rhode Island
*Anne Hutchinson
--antinomianism
*New England
*Middle
*Southern
-Chesapeake
OTHER RELIGIOUS TERMS
OTHER TERMS
blue laws
Half-way covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Congregationalists
Quakers
-William Penn
Maryland Religious Act of Toleration
deism
Albany Plan
commissions
sallies
siege
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FIRST GREAT AWAKENING /
FIRST MASS SOCIAL MOVEMENT
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-1730’s and 1740’s
-Old Lights vs. New Lights
-William Tennent
-revival
-George Whitefield
-Jonathan Edwards
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EARLY AMERICAN UNITY
This will be discussed during the first two weeks
of school.
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CONFLICT / REVOLUTION
THE SUBJUGATED LASHED OUT
*Pueblo Rebellion
---Popé
*King Phillip’s Rebellion / War
*Stono Rebellion
*Bacon’s Rebellion
IMPERIAL SHOWDOWN
*French and Indian War (Seven
Years’ War)
*Fort Duquesne
-George Washington’s role
*guerilla warfare
*Pontiac
*Proclamation of 1763
DEATH OF SALUTARY NEGLECT
Navigation Acts
bill of landing
duties
Sugar Act
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
virtual representation
direct taxes vs. indirect taxes
internal taxation vs. external taxation
non-importation agreement
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Quebec Act
Townshend Duties
Annapolis Tea Party
-Peggy Stewart
Common Sense
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Loyalists
SEEDS OF
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
This will be discussed during the first two weeks
of school.