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Give Me Liberty! Chapter 1-5 Key Terms
Tenochtitlan - answer✔The capital of the aztec empire
Cahokia - answer✔The largest city in america until the 1800's
Iroquois - answer✔The Mohawk, oneida, cayuga, seneca, and onondaga
"Christian Liberty" - answer✔abandoning a life of sin to embrace the teachings of christ
Caravels - answer✔Long distance ships
Reconquista - answer✔The "reconquest" of Spain from the moors completed by king Ferdinand
and queen Isabella
Columbian Exchange - answer✔The trans atlantic flow of goods and people beginning with
Columbus
Mestizo - answer✔Spanish word for a person of mixed native american and European decent
Repartimiento system - answer✔A system were residents of indian villages remained legally free
and entitled to wages, but were still required to preform a fixed amount of labor each year.
Black Legend - answer✔The idea that the Spanish empire was more oppressive to the Natives
than the english were
Pueblo Revolt - answer✔Uprising by pueblo indians that temporarly drove Spanish colonist out
of Mexico
Metis - answer✔Children of marriages between Indian women and french traders.
Virginia Company - answer✔A private business organization that established the colony
Jamestown, Virginia.
Roanoke - answer✔A base set up off the coast of NC, with the intent to be a permanent colony.
But when the governor retuned all structures stood but all the people where gone.
A Discourse Concerning western planing - answer✔A book with 23 reasons why Queen
Elizabeth should support the establishment of colonies
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Enclosure movement - answer✔The movement into english cities due to lack of land to far in
England.
Indentured Servants - answer✔Servants who agreed to work for 10 years in America for only
food and shelter
John Smith - answer✔Imposed a regime of forced labor of company lands in Jamestown. He also
set to the Headright system, Tenency, and end of Marshall law
Headright System - answer✔In an attempt to bring business men, one would be awarded 50
acres of land for coming to Jamestown, as well as 50 acres of land forever servant he payed for
passage to the New World
House of Burgesses - answer✔First government body in English America, with reforms lead by
Edward Sams
Uprising of 1622 - answer✔An attack, lead by the Powhatans brothers, that in a single day killed
one quarter of the Virginia setters. It was the last of a series of blows to the Virginia Company.
Tobacco - answer✔Became gold to Virginia, once ti became a poor mans luxury.
Dower rights - answer✔The claim that a woman would receive one-third of of her husbands
property in the event that her husband dies before she does.
Puritanism - answer✔English religious group that sought to purify the church
John Winthrop - answer✔The governor of the mass. colony
Moral Liberty - answer✔a liberty to that on which is good
Pilgrims - answer✔the first separatist puritans to emigrate to the US
Mayflower Compact - answer✔The first written frame of government wrote by the puritans
Great Migration - answer✔A flow of more than 21,000 puritans to the americas
Captivity Narratives - answer✔Books written to keep puritans from wanting to leave their
society and join the indians
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God - answer✔A book about a woman that was captured by
the indians and held for ransom.
Pequot War - answer✔Conflict between Indians and New England colonists. Massacre at Mystic
Half-Way Covenant - answer✔Allowing Puritan children who are not having conversions to be
half-way apart of the church to get their foot in the door
Give Me Liberty! Chapter 1-5 Key Terms
Tenochtitlan - answer✔The capital of the aztec empire
Cahokia - answer✔The largest city in america until the 1800's
Iroquois - answer✔The Mohawk, oneida, cayuga, seneca, and onondaga
"Christian Liberty" - answer✔abandoning a life of sin to embrace the teachings of christ
Caravels - answer✔Long distance ships
Reconquista - answer✔The "reconquest" of Spain from the moors completed by king Ferdinand
and queen Isabella
Columbian Exchange - answer✔The trans atlantic flow of goods and people beginning with
Columbus
Mestizo - answer✔Spanish word for a person of mixed native american and European decent
Repartimiento system - answer✔A system were residents of indian villages remained legally free
and entitled to wages, but were still required to preform a fixed amount of labor each year.
Black Legend - answer✔The idea that the Spanish empire was more oppressive to the Natives
than the english were
Pueblo Revolt - answer✔Uprising by pueblo indians that temporarly drove Spanish colonist out
of Mexico
Metis - answer✔Children of marriages between Indian women and french traders.
Virginia Company - answer✔A private business organization that established the colony
Jamestown, Virginia.
Roanoke - answer✔A base set up off the coast of NC, with the intent to be a permanent colony.
But when the governor retuned all structures stood but all the people where gone.
A Discourse Concerning western planing - answer✔A book with 23 reasons why Queen
Elizabeth should support the establishment of colonies
, ©THEBRIGHTSTARS 2024/2025
Enclosure movement - answer✔The movement into english cities due to lack of land to far in
England.
Indentured Servants - answer✔Servants who agreed to work for 10 years in America for only
food and shelter
John Smith - answer✔Imposed a regime of forced labor of company lands in Jamestown. He also
set to the Headright system, Tenency, and end of Marshall law
Headright System - answer✔In an attempt to bring business men, one would be awarded 50
acres of land for coming to Jamestown, as well as 50 acres of land forever servant he payed for
passage to the New World
House of Burgesses - answer✔First government body in English America, with reforms lead by
Edward Sams
Uprising of 1622 - answer✔An attack, lead by the Powhatans brothers, that in a single day killed
one quarter of the Virginia setters. It was the last of a series of blows to the Virginia Company.
Tobacco - answer✔Became gold to Virginia, once ti became a poor mans luxury.
Dower rights - answer✔The claim that a woman would receive one-third of of her husbands
property in the event that her husband dies before she does.
Puritanism - answer✔English religious group that sought to purify the church
John Winthrop - answer✔The governor of the mass. colony
Moral Liberty - answer✔a liberty to that on which is good
Pilgrims - answer✔the first separatist puritans to emigrate to the US
Mayflower Compact - answer✔The first written frame of government wrote by the puritans
Great Migration - answer✔A flow of more than 21,000 puritans to the americas
Captivity Narratives - answer✔Books written to keep puritans from wanting to leave their
society and join the indians
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God - answer✔A book about a woman that was captured by
the indians and held for ransom.
Pequot War - answer✔Conflict between Indians and New England colonists. Massacre at Mystic
Half-Way Covenant - answer✔Allowing Puritan children who are not having conversions to be
half-way apart of the church to get their foot in the door
