IB HOTA - UNIT 1 EXAM IDENTIFY
TERMS-GRADED A
Paleo Indians - ANS-First Americans, nomadic hunters and gatherers of wild plants who
spread throughout the North and South. Made stone/wood tools
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile - ANS-Jealous of Portugal's successes in
Africa, were most receptive to Colmubus's ideas of voyage and agreed to finance the
risky trop in hope for high profits
the Azores, the Madeiras, and the Canaries - ANS-Europeans landed upon these
islands after exploring the oceans. The Canaries proved a popular destination for
mariners from Iberia, the peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal
Christopher Colombus - ANS-Italian explorer who set sail in 1492, with financial help
from Ferdinand and Isabella, for the New World in hopes to land in India but reached
the West Indies where he called the natives Indians
the encomienda system - ANS-legal system used by the Spanish during the Spanish
colonization to regulate the Native Americans and reward the individual Spaniards for
their services to the crown
Peninsulares - ANS-In the colonial caste system of the Spaniards, a peninsular was a
spanish born Spaniard who resided in the New World during the colonial times. The
peninsular references the Iberian peninsula
Henry VIII - ANS-Henry left the Roman Catholic Church because he could not divorce
his wife and found the Church of England and proclaimed himself its head. English
people welcomed the schism for many had little respect for the English Catholic Church
joint-stock companies - ANS-Many of the dissenters and other English people who
migrated to North America and the Caribbean were financed by joint-stock companies.
Stock sales funded these forerunners of modern corporations, which had been
developed decades earlier as a mechanism for pooling the resources of many small
investors
Jamestown - ANS-In 1607, the company dispatched 104 men and boys to a region near
Chesapeake Bay where they est. a palisaded settle called Jamestown constructing
small house and a Church of England chapel
, headright system - ANS-To attract more settlers to the colony, the Virginia Company in
1617 developed a system where every new arrival paying his or her own way was
promised a land grant of 50 acres; those who financed the passage of others received
similar head rights for each person
indentured servitude - ANS-labour system whereby young people paid for their passage
to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
Mayflower Compact - ANS-First governing document in the colony of Plymouth written
by Separatists fleeing from the religious persecution by King James of England
John Winthrop - ANS-Wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in
the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New
England after Plymouth Colony
the English Civil War - ANS-Series of armed conflicts and political machinations
between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers) in the Kingdom of
England over the manner of its government. Overall outcome of the war was threefold:
the trial and execution of Charles I; the exile of his son Charles II; and the replacement
of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649-53) and then
the Protectorate (1653-59) under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule
the Restoration colonies - ANS-One of a number of land grants in North America given
by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a
reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration. Marked the resumption of English
colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus. The two major restoration colonies
were the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Carolina.
William Penn - ANS-Early quaker and found of the Province of Pennsylvania and the
future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1681 King Charles II handed over a large
piece of his American land holdings to William Penn to satisfy a debt the king owed to
Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Iroquois Confederacy - ANS-Composed of the the five Indian nations- the Mohawks,
Oneidas, Onondgas, Cayugas, and Senecas they had a unique defensive alliance
forged early in the sixteenth century who made decisions of war and peace for the
entire Iroquois Confederacy
Regulator Movements - ANS-SC and NC pitted backcountry farmers against wealthy
planters that controlled government; frontier dwellers protested lack of political voice;
fought and lost against eastern militiamen
Great Awakening - ANS-Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth
century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established
TERMS-GRADED A
Paleo Indians - ANS-First Americans, nomadic hunters and gatherers of wild plants who
spread throughout the North and South. Made stone/wood tools
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile - ANS-Jealous of Portugal's successes in
Africa, were most receptive to Colmubus's ideas of voyage and agreed to finance the
risky trop in hope for high profits
the Azores, the Madeiras, and the Canaries - ANS-Europeans landed upon these
islands after exploring the oceans. The Canaries proved a popular destination for
mariners from Iberia, the peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal
Christopher Colombus - ANS-Italian explorer who set sail in 1492, with financial help
from Ferdinand and Isabella, for the New World in hopes to land in India but reached
the West Indies where he called the natives Indians
the encomienda system - ANS-legal system used by the Spanish during the Spanish
colonization to regulate the Native Americans and reward the individual Spaniards for
their services to the crown
Peninsulares - ANS-In the colonial caste system of the Spaniards, a peninsular was a
spanish born Spaniard who resided in the New World during the colonial times. The
peninsular references the Iberian peninsula
Henry VIII - ANS-Henry left the Roman Catholic Church because he could not divorce
his wife and found the Church of England and proclaimed himself its head. English
people welcomed the schism for many had little respect for the English Catholic Church
joint-stock companies - ANS-Many of the dissenters and other English people who
migrated to North America and the Caribbean were financed by joint-stock companies.
Stock sales funded these forerunners of modern corporations, which had been
developed decades earlier as a mechanism for pooling the resources of many small
investors
Jamestown - ANS-In 1607, the company dispatched 104 men and boys to a region near
Chesapeake Bay where they est. a palisaded settle called Jamestown constructing
small house and a Church of England chapel
, headright system - ANS-To attract more settlers to the colony, the Virginia Company in
1617 developed a system where every new arrival paying his or her own way was
promised a land grant of 50 acres; those who financed the passage of others received
similar head rights for each person
indentured servitude - ANS-labour system whereby young people paid for their passage
to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
Mayflower Compact - ANS-First governing document in the colony of Plymouth written
by Separatists fleeing from the religious persecution by King James of England
John Winthrop - ANS-Wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in
the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New
England after Plymouth Colony
the English Civil War - ANS-Series of armed conflicts and political machinations
between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers) in the Kingdom of
England over the manner of its government. Overall outcome of the war was threefold:
the trial and execution of Charles I; the exile of his son Charles II; and the replacement
of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649-53) and then
the Protectorate (1653-59) under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule
the Restoration colonies - ANS-One of a number of land grants in North America given
by King Charles II of England in the latter half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a
reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration. Marked the resumption of English
colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus. The two major restoration colonies
were the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Carolina.
William Penn - ANS-Early quaker and found of the Province of Pennsylvania and the
future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1681 King Charles II handed over a large
piece of his American land holdings to William Penn to satisfy a debt the king owed to
Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Iroquois Confederacy - ANS-Composed of the the five Indian nations- the Mohawks,
Oneidas, Onondgas, Cayugas, and Senecas they had a unique defensive alliance
forged early in the sixteenth century who made decisions of war and peace for the
entire Iroquois Confederacy
Regulator Movements - ANS-SC and NC pitted backcountry farmers against wealthy
planters that controlled government; frontier dwellers protested lack of political voice;
fought and lost against eastern militiamen
Great Awakening - ANS-Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth
century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established
