Unit 1 Cis History

-Eastern North America a vast forest.

-Indian communities took adv of rich forest resources.

-Indians developed settled forest communities.

-small game, gathering, permanent settlement

-last Ice Age (maybe)

-.Athapascan: ancestors Navajos and Apache’s migrated across the Great Plains to the South west

- 3000BCE maritime hunting people crossed the Bering Straight in small boats. Inuits (Eskimo’s) colonized polar coats of Artic

-pan American highway eastern range of Rocky Mountains

Land bridge, subcontinent of ice free to connect Asia and N. America

-CORN:

-1st cultivated maize abt 5,000 years ago

-helped sustain one of the worlds greatest civilizations

Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilization

-Farmers living in permanent community sites along the flood plains of the MI valley.

-Cahokia was largest and most spectacular with monumental temple mounds, neighborhood, and surrounding farmlands

-way of life based on pursuit of small game and intensified foraging of plant foods.

-small communities of foragers migrated seasonally within a small range

-lived in rock shelters

First permanently settled villages in N. America

-stone tools, hide, object of wood and fibers preserved tools

Clovis:long and narrow spearhead

-emerged around 10,000BCE

-new and powerful style of tool making

-Clovis artifacts founds throughout N. And Central America

Population of the Western Hemisphere as a whole may have been 50 million or more

-Rocky mountains

-Great Plains

-Central Lowlands

-Appalachian mountains

Native American empire that controlled present day Mexico until they were conquered by Spain

-most sophisticated and highly developed writing system

-sophisticated in their art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical systems too.

-largest empire

Highly advanced South American civilization that occupied present day Peru until they were conquered by the Spanish in 1532

-first major civilization in Mexico

-their culture influenced many others later like the Maya.

-known for immense stone heads they carved from a volcanic rock called basalt.

-Intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries sparked by the revival of interest in classical antiquity.

-outlook was critical component of the inquisitive and acquisitive spirit that motivated the exploration of the Americas

-protesting and reforming the Catholic Church.

-protesting and reforming the Catholic Church.

-turned into grazing land instead of giving tenant farmers (tenants out of countryside)

-Consolidating small land holdings into larger farms, once enclosed, use of land became restricted and available only to owner

-Widespread biological exchange affected old and new worlds and marks beginning of modern era.

-European diseases decimated Indian population

-Protestant Reformation: had to do with churches taking money for baptizing them.

-salvation is reached through God and not through deeds

-Protestant

-est. a Protestant theocracy in Geneva.

Formed Calvinism-believed in predestination

-placed prohibitive duty in imported sugar provided for greater regulation of America shipping to suppress smuggling.

-One of the largest and most violent slave uprisings during the colonial period that occurred in stone, S. Carolina.

Substance farming

People began to move to cities and begin small trades

Most diverse colony

Many ways to make money

-Headright system: if you large land owner and convince family or friends you get more land

-Frontier

-Large land estates

-stable cash crops:major was rice tobacco wheat and grains

Rebellion against Berkeley (the Easton elite) because of lack of support during Indian raids in the backcountry (rich vs poor)

Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, N. Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, S. Carolina

-founder George Fox

-“that of God in every one”

-all able to access the light within us.

-traveled throughout Great Britain and overseas preaching about the gospel of Jesus

-Chesapeake is located in Virgina and they had the highest profits and tobacco is why

-adopted the “plan of union” put forward by Benjamin Franklin a delegate from Penn.

-a meeting held in Albany NY between the British and leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy

-Iroquois left without agreement

-settlers that escape religious persecution in England founded Plymouth now known as Massachusetts Bay. Those people are called Pilgrims

Signed by Patrick Henry, John Adams, Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere

Signed on 4th of July

An economics system to increase a nations wealth by government regulation of all of the nations commercial interests; the colony existed only for the mother country

Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland

Carolinas and Georgia

A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American colonies

From British government which forbade British colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east .

Spectacular emotional religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s

Period of huge religious revival throughout the colonies and sparked by a few strong religious speakers called the new lights

Trade between America, West Indies, and Africa which some colonies took adv of after the fall of royal african company and yielded great profits to its merchants

Reaction to the Boston tea party; closing of Boston Harbor, revocation of Massachusetts charter murder in the name of royal authority would be tried in England or another colony.

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston harbor

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston harbor

First bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing 5 Americans

1st battle of the Revolution in which British general Thomas Gage went after the stockpiled weapons of the colonist in concord Massachusetts

German printer and journalist in New York City, he was accused of libel by William Cosby the royal governor of New York and John became a symbol for freedom of the press.

Colonial agreement in N. America between British and the chiefs during French and Indian war

Emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition, an intellectual movement

Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament Act

Met after the launch of the American Revolutionary War

Duke if Medina Sidonia sent out 130 ships sailed from Corunna with purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.