Summer 2014
Exam 1
Identification (Identify or define the following people, groups, or terms in one to three sentences each.)
Cahokia
Cahokia was the great centers of Mississippian culture and its largest settlement of Mississippian. It was a village of southwest illinois, a residential suburb of East St.Louis. It was located near the importance trade routes of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Ferdinand and Isabel
King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile were both import rulers during the Renaissance. They both improved their country in several ways, including establish justice and regulates trades.
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas is the 16th century Spanish historian and social reformer. He spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial …show more content…
It permitted free trade within England’s empire but restricted commerce with people outside it. It indicated American colonies’ growing importance to England.
Mercantilism
It is a philosophy indicated that colonies existed mainly to provide raw materials to the kingdom that founded them and protected markets for its manufactures.
Bacon’s Rebellion
It is a complex set of events in 1675-1676 that involved war between colonist and Indians as well as a civil war in which whites of every social rank and enslaved African joined to topple Virginia’s governor.
King Philip’s War
It was an armed conflict between native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675-1678.
Society of Quakers
A Christian religious sect that broke from the Church of England and established itself in America during the 17th century.
Salutary Neglect
Its name was given to the practice of colonists to defy or ignore British laws that they found onerous, often with the complicity of those charged to enforce them.
Cotton