NEHS US History C 2 & 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Columbian Exchange | first international trading network traded Old World goods for New World goods |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | settled conflict between Spain & Portugal created the Line of Demarcation split the world in half |
| Amerigo Vespucci | actually discovered America how America got it's name |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first European to circumnavigate the globe |
| conquistador | Spanish conquerors wanted to discover wealth & spread Catholicism by force |
| Hernando Cortes | defeated the Aztecs in Mexico |
| Montezuma | leader of the Aztecs defeated by Cortes |
| Francisco Pizarro | defeated the Incas in Peru |
| Atahualpa | leader of the Incas defeated by Pizarro |
| Ponce de Leon | searched for the fountain of youth |
| Spanish Armada | fleet of 130 ships defeated by the English navy in 1588 |
| mercantilism | when a mother country exploits the natural resources of the undeveloped country for its own financial gain |
| Samuel de Champlain | founded France's first permanent settlement in North America on the St. Lawrence River |
| France's first permanent settlement in North America on the St. Lawrence River | Quebec |
| Henry Hudson | English navigator worked for Dutch East India Company reached New York Harbor & Hudson River |
| John Rolfe | send tobacco Europe in 1612 |
| John Locke | English political philosopher wrote the first constitution in the new world |
| James Oglethorpe | established Georgia as a colony that was a refuge for debtors and a military outpost |
| John Winthrop | first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony led the Puritan settlers |
| "We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." | Quotation by John Winthrop in speaking about the very high religious standards of their new settlement & government |
| Roger Williams | minister who was banished from Massachusetts founded Rhode Island as his own colony |
| Rhode Island | colony set up by Williams religious freedom & separation of church and state |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | new world's first official constitution |
| Thomas Hooker | established the colony of Connecticut using a constitution |
| William Penn | ~Quaker ~didn't believe paid clergy were necessary ~everyone could know God's will through his or her own "inner light" ~established Pennsylvania as a colony |
| taxation without representation | colonials resented being controlled by a ruler who lived hundreds of miles away especially since they had to pay taxes without anyone representing them in Parliament |
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