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Columbus - ANS a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish
colonization of the Americas. Columbus' voyages led to general European awareness of the
hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World.
Colombian exchange-trade, Indians, Africans - ANS An exchange between the Old World,
New World, and Africa. In this exchange the Old World gave the New World food, animals, and
diseases. Africa gave the New World slaves. Lastly, the New World gave the Old World gold,
silver, raw materials, and syphilis. The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and
Old World societies after 1492. The Native World had gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco,
pineapples, tomatoes, beans, vanilla, chocolate and syphilis. The Old World/Europeans had
wheat, rice, sugar, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague,
typhus, diphtheria, and the scarlet fever. This whole exchange of things was initiated by
Columbus.
Amerigo Vespucci - ANS An Italian explorer, Vespucci published a wildly popular account of
his voyages in the New World near the North American continent in 1503. A German mapmaker
named the newly discovered continents after him to honor his achievements.
Encomienda System - ANS Spanish government's policy to "commend", or give, Indians to
certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort
to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.
Predestination - ANS The Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be
saved and some to be damned. A theory set up by John Calvin saying that God knew who was
going to heaven and who was going to hell; since the 1st moment of creation, some souls-elect-
had been destined for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment; good works could not save
those whom predestination had marked for the infernal fires
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Jamestown - ANS Colony in Virginia, The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony
founded in May, 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony. The settlement became
part of the Joint Stock Virginia Company of London in 1620. Grew to be a prosperous shipping
port.
Powhattan Confederacy - ANS A group of seven Indian tribes that controlled Virginia. It was
led by Powhatan and was an agricultural group. They allowed the original English Settlers to
survive
Headright System - ANS Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which
were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the
Virginia Company to attract more colonists.
House of Burgesses - ANS 1619, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World
established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make
laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts; it set a precedent for future
parliaments to be established
Indentured Servitude - ANS colonists who received free passage to North America in
exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. Life for them was hard, but
there was hope at the end of 7 years for freedom. Conditions were brutal, and in the later
years, owners unwilling to free their servants extended their contracts by years for small
mistakes.
Chesapeake Colonies - ANS The region of Virginia and Maryland. In contrast to New England,
this region was distinguished by indentured servants, cash crops, and African slavery.
Mayflower compact - ANS Compact This document was not a constitution; was a simple
agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the
regulations agreed upon; was signed by 41 adult males, 11 of them with the exalted rank of
mister though not by the servants and two seamen; was a promising step toward genuine self-
government; , a formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the
Plymouth colony
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Puritans - ANS believed the Anglican Church retained too many Catholic ideas and sought to
purify the Church of England; the Puritans believed in predestination (man saved or damned at
birth) and also held that God was watchful and granted salvation only to those who adhered to
His goodness as interpreted by the church. The Puritans were strong in New England and very
intolerant of other religious groups.
John Winthrop - ANS led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the
Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 and was elected their governor on April 8, 1630. was
instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He
envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which
Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Roger WIlliams - ANS He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He
believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay
Colony for his religious beliefs.
Anne Hutchinson - ANS Woman who was a sharp challenge to Puritan orthodoxy. Intelligent,
strong-willed, and talkative who believed in antinomianism, which said the truly saved need not
bother to obey the law of either God or man. This idea, which she had derived from the ideas of
John Cotton, was a heresy. Claimed that a direct revelation from God gave her this belief. She
also claimed that only a few of the ministers in the area were actually saved, but that she was
saved. This undermined all of the authority of the Church. Held meetings for her followers in
her house. She was banished, went to R.I. and then New Netherlands, but was eventually killed
by Indians.
Pequot War - ANS 637 Conflict between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth
colonies, with American Indian allies (the Narragansett, and Mohegan Indians), against the
Pequot Indians. This war saw the elimination of the Pequot in New England, and is exemplary of
the Puritan use of genocide towards Native Americans.
Quakers/ William Penn - ANS pacifist, egalitarian religious dissenters who did not pay taxes
to the church of England. Worshiped without priests. Penn established Pennsylvania for
Quakers. Good relationship with Indians.
King Phillips war - ANS 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists
and the Wompanoags, led by Metacom, a chief also known as King Philip. The war was started
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APUSH UNITS 1-5 Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Columbus - ANS a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish
colonization of the Americas. Columbus' voyages led to general European awareness of the
hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World.
Colombian exchange-trade, Indians, Africans - ANS An exchange between the Old World,
New World, and Africa. In this exchange the Old World gave the New World food, animals, and
diseases. Africa gave the New World slaves. Lastly, the New World gave the Old World gold,
silver, raw materials, and syphilis. The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and
Old World societies after 1492. The Native World had gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco,
pineapples, tomatoes, beans, vanilla, chocolate and syphilis. The Old World/Europeans had
wheat, rice, sugar, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague,
typhus, diphtheria, and the scarlet fever. This whole exchange of things was initiated by
Columbus.
Amerigo Vespucci - ANS An Italian explorer, Vespucci published a wildly popular account of
his voyages in the New World near the North American continent in 1503. A German mapmaker
named the newly discovered continents after him to honor his achievements.
Encomienda System - ANS Spanish government's policy to "commend", or give, Indians to
certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort
to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.
Predestination - ANS The Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be
saved and some to be damned. A theory set up by John Calvin saying that God knew who was
going to heaven and who was going to hell; since the 1st moment of creation, some souls-elect-
had been destined for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment; good works could not save
those whom predestination had marked for the infernal fires
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Jamestown - ANS Colony in Virginia, The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony
founded in May, 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony. The settlement became
part of the Joint Stock Virginia Company of London in 1620. Grew to be a prosperous shipping
port.
Powhattan Confederacy - ANS A group of seven Indian tribes that controlled Virginia. It was
led by Powhatan and was an agricultural group. They allowed the original English Settlers to
survive
Headright System - ANS Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which
were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the
Virginia Company to attract more colonists.
House of Burgesses - ANS 1619, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World
established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make
laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts; it set a precedent for future
parliaments to be established
Indentured Servitude - ANS colonists who received free passage to North America in
exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. Life for them was hard, but
there was hope at the end of 7 years for freedom. Conditions were brutal, and in the later
years, owners unwilling to free their servants extended their contracts by years for small
mistakes.
Chesapeake Colonies - ANS The region of Virginia and Maryland. In contrast to New England,
this region was distinguished by indentured servants, cash crops, and African slavery.
Mayflower compact - ANS Compact This document was not a constitution; was a simple
agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the
regulations agreed upon; was signed by 41 adult males, 11 of them with the exalted rank of
mister though not by the servants and two seamen; was a promising step toward genuine self-
government; , a formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the
Plymouth colony
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Puritans - ANS believed the Anglican Church retained too many Catholic ideas and sought to
purify the Church of England; the Puritans believed in predestination (man saved or damned at
birth) and also held that God was watchful and granted salvation only to those who adhered to
His goodness as interpreted by the church. The Puritans were strong in New England and very
intolerant of other religious groups.
John Winthrop - ANS led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the
Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 and was elected their governor on April 8, 1630. was
instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He
envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which
Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Roger WIlliams - ANS He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He
believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay
Colony for his religious beliefs.
Anne Hutchinson - ANS Woman who was a sharp challenge to Puritan orthodoxy. Intelligent,
strong-willed, and talkative who believed in antinomianism, which said the truly saved need not
bother to obey the law of either God or man. This idea, which she had derived from the ideas of
John Cotton, was a heresy. Claimed that a direct revelation from God gave her this belief. She
also claimed that only a few of the ministers in the area were actually saved, but that she was
saved. This undermined all of the authority of the Church. Held meetings for her followers in
her house. She was banished, went to R.I. and then New Netherlands, but was eventually killed
by Indians.
Pequot War - ANS 637 Conflict between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth
colonies, with American Indian allies (the Narragansett, and Mohegan Indians), against the
Pequot Indians. This war saw the elimination of the Pequot in New England, and is exemplary of
the Puritan use of genocide towards Native Americans.
Quakers/ William Penn - ANS pacifist, egalitarian religious dissenters who did not pay taxes
to the church of England. Worshiped without priests. Penn established Pennsylvania for
Quakers. Good relationship with Indians.
King Phillips war - ANS 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists
and the Wompanoags, led by Metacom, a chief also known as King Philip. The war was started
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