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US HISTORY TEST ONE
109 cards·by caltice
what area did the dutch setlle in in the 1700s?
The New York and New Jersey area
In the 1700's, who was the leading economic power in the new world?
The Dutch.
What Society was a Warrior Empire?
Azteks
What Religion did the Western Protestants originate from?
Roman Catholicism
What ultimately allowed the Spanish to conquer the Azteks?
Technical Superiority
What disease was killing over 40% of Mexico's population in a year
Smallpox
Where Did the Spanish Empire settle eventually?
Florida
What city did the French find in the 1600's?
Quebec
What religion did the Eastern Protestants originate from?
Greek Orthodox
What did Christopher Columbus hope to accomplish on his voyage?
Reach the Orient faster by traveling west
What society did Columbus encounter when he reached the Carribean?
Tino
What man was America Named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who Were the Conquistadors?
Spanish travelers who came overseas to the New world to get rich and go back home
Why did the Paleo Indians practice warfare?
To acqquire material goods and hostages
What Empire practiced Human Sacrafice in 1480 AD?
Azteks
When Cortes Travels North who does he meet?
Moctezuma
The Portugese traded what kinds of goods with the W. Africans?
Cotton, pepper, camels, humans, skins
Who do the Natives and Spanish Ally against?
Azteks
What was the Inca capital that the Spanish Captured?
Cusca
What was the 1st large society that the spanish met?
Azteks
Where did the Mayans mostly live?
Southern Mexico & Honduras
The Incas were the largest _________ empire.
Political
What Company did the Dutch establish in the 1700s?
Dutch-West India Company
What year did the Reconquista take place?
1000 AD
What year did the Aztek city fall?
1521 AD
What city did the Turks capture in the 1450s?
Constantinople
Why did Spain create ships larger than galleys?
To reach Asia's valuable goods
What crop did the Paleo Indians mainy cultivate in 3000 BC?
corn
What kind of Lifestyle did the Plains Indians adopt?
Nomadic
What was the French population in the New world in the 1700s?
about 15000
What society built a complex road system?
Incas
What was the Aztec's Capital?
Tenochtitian
Who did the Spanish discover south of Panama in 1526?
Incas
Where did Cortes and his army land?
carribean
who led the 1526 inca invasion?
Pizarro
what did the women of the west african society do?
trade, cultivate land
what society is home of slaves transfered to the west?
west african
who did the west african society trade with?
Israelies
what did the men of the west african society do?
hunt, prepare land for cattle
what were the 3 major monarchs in europe in the 1400's?
England, France, spain
about what year did the incas emerge?
1438 ad
where were the incas mostly centered at?
peru, near the andes mtns
what is Machu Pichu?
The Lost city of the Incas
The Mayans created a calendar system and a form of what?
writing
what did the paleo indians mostly hunt?
buffalo
the french manufactured what good?
iron
what did the native americans use to make weapons and buildings?
stone
the incas believed in what kind of land ownership?
communal
why did spain create ships larger than galleys?
to reach asia's valuable goods
what was the first english colony?
jamestown
what year was jamestown founded?
1607
what was jamestowns major crop?
tobacco
who imposed a dictatorship on hjamestown?
john smith
who discovered tobacco in jamestown?
john rolfe
in 1622, the colonists had a war with who?
powhatans
what kinds of plantations were along the james river?
tobacco
what was the headwrights system?
immigrants work to recieve transportation and a splice of land
what did the burgess system do?
gave colonies right to self-govern
what was the indentured servant system?
immigrants would work for a fixed time & then recieve land
when the colony of jamestown fails in 1624, who takes over?
king james
what did jamestown ultimately become?
royal colony
what were the chesapeke colonies?
va & md
who ran maryland in 1632?
lord baltimore
why was maryland originally established?
as a catholic haven
who eventually dominates maryland?
protestants
who settled on plymouth?
radical protestants
what year was plymouth founded?
1620
who were the pilgrims led by?
will bradford
what group founded the mass. bay colony?
puritans
what year was the mass. bay colony founded?
1629
what group of people were "religious idealists"?
puritans
who led the puritans?
john winthrop
what agreement did the puritans use to govern their colony?
covenant agreement
what was the covenant agreement a mix of?
theocracy and democracy
that mass bay colony had what kind of immigrants?
family
who could vote among the puritans government?
males in good standing with the church
what did the puritan meeting houses serve as?
places of gvt and place of worship
who disovered rhode island?
roger williams
what year was rhode island discovered?
1644
what crop did the carribean mostly trade?
sugar
who worked the sugar plantations in the carribean?
w. african slaves
what year was the carolina colony founded?
1663
northern carolina planted what crops?
tobacco, tar, and pitch
southern carolina planted what crop?
rice
what was the capital of the carolina colony?
charleston
who comes and splits the carolinas into independent north and south colonies?
the king of england
what year was GA founded?
1732
why was GA founded
as a buffer between spain and england
who was GA mostly home to?
debt prisoners
who discovered pennsylvania?
william penn
what year was penn. found?
1681
who mostly populated penn?
quakers
what was the first largest american city and port?
philly
during king phillips war, who did the british impose a charter and military governor on?
the mass. bay colony
what year did bacons rebellion take place?
1676
who took part in bacons rebellion?
planters
who led bacons rebellion?
nathaniel bacon
who did the europeans try to enslave to work plantations before they enslaved africans?
Native Americans
why were slaves a better option than indentured servant?
the up front cost was a lot lower
why were slaves seen less in the new england colonies rather than the southern colonies?
families did all of the work in the new england colonies
by 1720, what kind of codes were being enforced in the south?
slave codes
in the southern slave codes, what were the slaves considered
property
slaves created their own culture/society called _______ ?
creole
what was the least common method of slave resistance?
armed
where did the stono rebellion take place?
south carolina
what year did the stono rebellion take place?
1739
what was the stono rebellion
an uprising of slaves against white power
who put down the stono rebellion?
native americans and the state militia
what led to the strict laws against slaves (such as no learning to read, no outside income, etc)
the stono rebellion