AP US History Chapters 1-2 – Flashcards

The mission system was a chain of missions estalbished by Franciscan monks in the Spanish Southwest and California that forced Indians to convert to Catholicism and work as agricultural laborers

took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Native Americans rebelled and kick out Spanish for 10 years; led by Juan De Onate to take corn and clothing; pushed out to Alpasso

sought to either move Native Americans westward or annihilate them; on the east coast; Jamestown, Chesapeake Bay (MA and VA), Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Bay, Pennsylvania

located in English colonies; discovered in 1620; a religious colony; were separatist Puritans; Pilgrims settled here.

Chief Massasoit of Wampanoags; Squanto (between Pilgrims and Wampanoag; 1st Thanksgiving in 1621; government was the Mayflower Compact

the leader was Metacom; 1675, the Wampanoags leader, who English called King Phillip; migrated further into the New England

Indian who led Thanksgiving

1st Thanksgiving in 1621 by Pilgrims

resisted invaders by force; when Puritans invaded the land and fought back; Puritans killed them

a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven; primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Native Americans

English encroachment on native lands sparked this conflict in New England (1675-1676) between Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and other Indian peoples against English settlers.

The Quakers were a radical English religious sect that arose in the mid-seventeenth century. Quakers stressed the doctrine of the Inner Light (or Holy Spirit that dwelt within them), rejected formal theology and an educated ministry, and were important in the founding of Pennsylvania. They were pacifists and tolerant of other religions

An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean separating the Delmarva Peninsula from mainland Maryland and Virginia. Explored and charted by John Smith in 1608

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)

three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.

Nathaniel Bacon led an armed rebellion that began with settler attacks on Indians but which culminated in a rebellion against the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, in 1676. The rebellion was the product of Berkeley's political favoritism, economic exploitation, and Indian policy

An English colony of southeast North America, first settled in 1653 and divided into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.

An American Indian people forming part of the Six Nations, originally inhabiting the Carolinas and later New York.

multiethnic confederation of Native Americans[2] who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.

fur trade with Iroquois; Peter Minuit purchases land for defensive fortress; unregulated trade resulted in violent wars between Dutch and coastal Indians

17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America.

A Dutch trading company founded in 1602 to protect Dutch trading interests in the Indian Ocean. It was dissolved in 1799

Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638).

Peter Minuit of the Dutch West Indies Company bought the island in 1626

he Columbian exchange involves the transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred after the first European contact with the Americas