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47 Cards in this Set
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North West Passage
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waterway through or around North America
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Protestant Reformation
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religious movement that caused a split in the church.
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Coureur De Bois
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French colonist who lived and worked in the woods
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Alliance
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Agreement between nations to aid and protect each another
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Missionary
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person who taveled to new lands to win converts
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Wich countries besids Spain established colonies in North America
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England, France , Netherlands
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Why did Europeans want to find a passage through North America
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To find a short cut to the spice islands
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On what ways did the Protesant Reformation affect relationships among Europeans
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It caused the Catholic church to split up into other smaller churches
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How did the fur trade affect relations between New Netherland and New France?
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It caused them to become rivials.Both tried to form alliances with Native Americans
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Why did the French have friendlier relations with Native Americans than the Spanish did?
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Because spanish were destroying the land causing the animals to leave. They did not try to concure them
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Leif Ericson
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Led the Vikings to establish a colony called Vinland in North America
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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The monarchs who financed the expedition led by Columbus
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Columbus
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Tried to reach Asia by sailing West across the Atlantic Ocean
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Balboa
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Spanish explorer who claimed the Pacific Ocean calling it the South Sea
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Magellan
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Led expedition wich showed Europeans the true size of the Earth
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Cortes
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Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs in 1519
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Moctezuma
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Aztec leader whose empire was conqured by Cortes
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Pazarro
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Spanish conqueror of the Incas of South America
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Ponce de leon
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Spanish explorer who explored Florida in search of the "fountain of youth"
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Cabeza do Vaca & Extevanicl
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These men were shipwrecked along the Texas coast and wandered from 1528 to 1536 looking for a Spanish settlement
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De Soto
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Spanish explorer of Florida and other parts of the Southeast searching for gold:died along the banks of the Mississippi River without finding riches
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Coronado
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Spanish explorer who led an expedition to find the "seven cities of gold"
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Charter
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leagal document giving certian rights to a person or company
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Burgess
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representive to the colonial Virginia goverment
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House of Burgesses
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representaive assembly in colonial Virginia
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representaive goverment
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political system in with voters elect representatives to make laws for them
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Magna Carta
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signed in 1215, a British document that contains two basic ideas:Monarchs themselves have to obey the laws,and citizens have basic rights
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Parliament
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representative assembly in England
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Pilgims
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in the 1600's English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas
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Established Church
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chosen religion of a state
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persecution
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mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
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Mayflower Compact
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1620 agreement for fuling the plymouth colony, signed by pilgrims before they landed at plymouth
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Precedent
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an act of decision that sets the example for others to follow
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Thanksgiving
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day at the end of the harvest season set aside by the pilgrims to give thanks to God
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Colony
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group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the goverment of their land
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Turning Point
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moment in history that marks a decisive change
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Circumnavigate
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travel all the way around the Earth
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Columbian Exchange
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the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the ecnounter between the peoples of the Eastern and the Western hemisphers
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Conquistador
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name for the spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain
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Pueblo
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a town in the Spanish colonies:Anazi village
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Presido
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fort where soldiers lived in spanish colonies
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Mission
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religious settlement run by Catholic priest and friars
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peninsulare
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person from spain who held a position of power in a spanish colony
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creole
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person born in spanish american colonies to spanish parents
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mestizo
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in spanish american colonies, person of mixed spanish and indian background
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encomienda
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land grant given by the spanish goverment to spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from native americans
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plantation
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large estate farmed by many workers
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