Christopher Columbus - Answers •Italian but sailed for spain
•Found Hispanola (modern day Dominican Republic and Haiti)
Colombian Exchange - Answers the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas
and Europe, Asia, and Africa
3 levels of contact - Answers Military, economic, and biological
Military contact - Answers Europeans had metal armor and firearms that were much more advanced
than the natives weaponry
Economic contact - Answers Trading was very important to both the Europeans and native Americans
Biological contact - Answers Native Americans had no immunity to the diseases brought over by the
Europeans, and it decimated their population. Europeans got syphilis from the native Americans.
Women's work in a hunting society - Answers Take care of kids, make food, make clothes, teepees,
carry the stuff when they're moving
Men's work in a hunting society - Answers Hunting
Women's work in agricultural societies - Answers Cultivation of crops, take care of kids, make food,
make clothes, trading within the tribe
Men's work in agricultural societies - Answers Hunting, politics, out of tribe trading
Pueblo Indians - Answers Southwest US Indians, built large irrigation systems, adobe structures
Anasazi - Answers Subgroup of Pueblo Indians. Abandoned their homes due to drought in 1250 AD
Anasazi folktale - Answers The rain/fertility deity had abandoned them, so they moved in search of it
until they landed in the Rio Grande
First Contact - Answers Native Americans and Europeans meet each other for the first time. A
"competition of cultures" begins
Headwright System - Answers Awarded 50 acres of land to any colonist that paid their own or
another's passage
House of Burgesses, 1619 - Answers The first elected lawmaking body in North America, established
by the Virginia Company to allow representative government in Virginia.
Uprising of 1622 - Answers Unsuccessful uprising of Virginia Native Americans that wiped out one-
quarter of the settler population, but ultimately led to the settlers gaining supremacy.
dower rights - Answers The right of a married woman to one-third of her husband's property in the
event that he died before she did.
Puritans - Answers Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman
Catholic traces in practice and organization. Generally more literate because they believed in reading
the Bible for themselves
John Calvin - Answers Taught that you were either selected or damned.
John Winthrop - Answers Massachusetts colony governor. Taught two types of liberty- "natural
liberty" (the liberty to do evil) and "subjection to authority"
Pilgrims - Answers The first Puritans to emigrate to America. Separatists
John Rolfe - Answers Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully
in Virginia. Married Pocahontas
Mayflower Compact - Answers Adult men going on shore agreed to obey "just and equal laws"
enacted by representatives of their own choosing. First written frame of government in what is now
the USA
First permanent colony in the US (give me liberty) - Answers Puerto Rico (1508)
Jamestown colony - Answers Started as a Proprietary colony with the Virginia Company, but then
changed to a Royal colony because the king wanted that Tobacco money.
Royal Colony - Answers Under direct control of the king. Almost all colonies became royal.
Propriety colony - Answers a colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or
family. Virginia started out as this
Charter Colony - Answers colonies that settlers were given a charter, or a grant of rights and
privileges. Massachusetts bay colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony - Answers Puritans secured a royal charter to form this colony, located in
the infertile MA area. Boston soon became its hub. They used their charter as a kind of constitution.
They had a well-equipped expedition in 1630 and started the colony off on a large scale. Many fairly
prosperous, educated persons immigrated here. John Winthrop was its first governor, saying he had a