American History: Identification One

is a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca. A sixth tribe, the Tuscarora, joined after the original five nations were formed. Although frequently referred to as the Iroquois, the Nations refer to themselves collectively as Haudenosaunee.

The Spanish Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588, with the intention of overthrowing Elizabeth I of England. The mission failed, after having come within hours of succeeding.

latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the subtropical high, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm.

said that it was okay for colonists or conquistadores to enslave the natives for use of physical labor if there was an attempt to convert them to Christianity.

The Pope's Rebellion was a revolt staged by the Pueblo Indians in 1680 against the Spaniards who were enslaving them to dig in mines for gold and silver.
But, as the name of the rebellion suggests, the Pueblos were not just fighting for their physical freedom. They fought against the imposition of religion--Catholicism--that was being forced on them. They rebelled in order to retain their own unique religion and culture, lest it be forgotten and wiped out forever.

Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World

member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

the English legal code set up to provide a legal base for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados. It required that slave owners dress their slaves. However, it also denied slaves even basic rights guaranteed under English common law such as the right to life. It allowed the slaves' owners to do entirely as they wished to their slaves, including mutilating them and burning them alive, without fear of reprisal.

An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.

The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were two wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy. The First War started in 1609 or 1610, and ended in a peace settlement in 1614. Another war between the two powers lasted from 1622 to 1632. The Second actually third War lasted from 1644-1646, and ended in complete defeat for the Virginia Indians who were then forced off much of their land.

Smallpox reached what was to become the United States either from Canada or the West Indies. The first major outbreak of an infectious disease recorded on the northeastern Atlantic coast was 1616-19. The Massachusetts and other Algonquin tribes in the area were reduced from an estimated thirty thousand to three hundred (Bray). When the Pilgrims landed a year later in 1620, there was few Indians left to greet them. Many observers believe this infectious disease was smallpox.

the English legal code set up to provide a legal base for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados. It required that slave owners dress their slaves. However, it also denied slaves even basic rights guaranteed under English common law such as the right to life. It allowed the slaves' owners to do entirely as they wished to their slaves, including mutilating them and burning them alive, without fear of reprisal.

Most important plantation in the south

Handsome Lake or Ganioda'yo (1735 – 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was also half-brother to Cornplanter. Before his emergence as a prophet, Handsome Lake fought in Pontiac's Rebellion (against the British) and the American Revolutionary War (against the Americans). After struggling with alcoholism and an apparently near-fatal illness in 1799, Handsome Lake began professing instructions he had been given in a series of three visions.

war in 1637 between white settlers and Pequot Indians in Connecticut which resulted in the almost total decimation of the Pequot tribe (U.S. History). the first serious armed conflict between indigenous people and settlers in New England

The Treaty of Tordesillas was agreed upon by the Spanish and the Portuguese to clear up confusion on newly claimed land in the New World.

Seventy thousand refugees left England. Not all were Puritans. 20000 came to Mass. Others went to the Caribbean

God determined before you were born if you were to go to heaven or hell – the elect would go to heaven.

Equivalent to the House of Burgesses in Massachusetts. Said you could only vote if part of the Church (Congregational Church)

The phrase entered the American lexicon early in its history, in the Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity." Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be a "city upon a hill," watched by the world: