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History 1301, Exam 1-Chapters 1-5Matrilineal - -Based on or tracing the family through the mother. Prevalent in
Na tive American cultures.
-Renaissance - -"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that
centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and
Rome
-Prince Henry - -Sent others to explore for him, made very first explorer
school, first person to value exploring
-Pilgrims - -English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620. Fled
England to avoid persecution.
-Mercantilism - -An economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a
nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial
interests
-Continental Congress - -Response to the Intolerable Acts, representatives
from 12 of the 13 colonies met to discuss the colonial troubles and
complaints in 1774.
-Proclamation of 1763 - -A proclamation from the British government which
forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains,
and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move
back east.
-Battle of Concord - -April 19, 1775 - The British leave Lexington and head
to Concord to take the weapons and gunpowder from the colonists. The
British were burning the town when the colonists began firing on soldiers.
The British were chased out of town turning the road into a 20 mile
battlefield. Colonists win this battle.
-Southern Agriculture - -Soil perfect for farming, cash crops, plantations
-Glorious Revolution - -A reference to the political events of 1688-1689,
when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary
and her husband, Prince William of Orange.
-Stamp Act - -1765, A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers
and official documents sold in the American Colonies
-English Settlements - -Political instability, reformation, overpopulation.
Establishment of colonies on east coast.
, -French Settlements - -Along Mississippi river (Detroit, St. Louis, New
Orleans), Canada, trading posts in India. Canada. Friendly with natives.
-LaSalle - -French explorer who claimed Louisiana and Mississippi river
mouth for France (1643-1687)
-Timbuktu - -Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and islamic
learning
-Age of Exploration - -A period from about the 1400's-1600's in which
European countries seek new trade routes, explore, and ultimately settle
colonies in the Americas.
-New Netherlands - -A Prosperous Dutch colonization that experienced
success and peace (except for New Amsterdam). This colony was easily
taken over with little resistance by the British in 1664
-Seven Years War - -(1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian
war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the
English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was
to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions.
-Atlantic Basin - -location of regions where many revolutions emerged
(North America, France, Latin America etc.)
-Sugar Cane - -Made into sugar, molasses and rum.Colonies economy
became improved when this became a profitable crop
-Thomas Paine - -Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common
Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he
published The Rights of Man
-Quakers - -English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a
doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn
they founded Pennsylvania
-Boston Massacre - -(1770) Clash between unruly Bostonian protestors and
locally stationed British redcoats, who fired on the jeering crowd, killing or
wounding 11 citizens.
-Chesapeake - -American ship that resisted impressment and was unduly
attacked, it led to Jefferson passing the Embargo Act
-Colonial Women - -Performed work which was essential to the colonial
economy, they were housewives and didn't have many rights.
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