AMERICAN PAGEANT: Chapter Identifications
You are responsible for understanding the context and significance of each of
the terms and names listed. An example is given from Chapter One.
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings
Cahokia
Montezuma(Moctezuma)
Marco Polo
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomé de las Casas
conquistador
Treaty of Tordesillas
Tenochtitlan
encomendia
Ex: Columbian Exchange – the mixing and clashing of food, disease, animals, technology,
and ideas between European and North American cultures, that resulted from the wave of
exploration following Columbus’ voyage in 1492 (pp. 14-15)
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
Queen Elizabeth I
Spanish Armada
primogeniture
joint-stock company
House of Burgesses
Act of Toleration (MD)
Lord Baltimore
Iroquois Confederacy
“sea dogs”
“starving time”
James Oglethorpe
Powhatan
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies
Protestant Reformation
Puritans
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Company
Roger Williams
Metacom (King Philip)
Dutch East India Company
Peter Stuyvesant
Separatists
Great Migration
New Netherlands
“Holy Experiment”
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century
“headright” system
indentured servants
slave codes
Gullah
Tidewater region
Half-way Covenant
Middle Passage
Nathaniel Bacon
Salem Witch trials
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
Scots-Irish
Pennsylvania Dutch
Triangular Trade
Anglican Church
Jonathan Edwards
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Phillis Wheatley
Regulator Movement
“bread colonies”
Great Awakening
John Peter Zenger
Paxton Boys
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America
King William’s & Queen Anne’s Wars
Samuel de Champlain
coureurs de bois
Navigation Laws
War of Jenkins’s Ear
French & Indian (7 Years’) War Fort Duquesne
Albany Congress
William Pitt
Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac