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Definitions for key terms related to the early history of the americas, including the bering strait, various societies and cities, concepts of gold, god, and glory, business structures, european settlements, and economic policies. It covers topics such as the first permanent european and british colonies, explorers, and rebellions.
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A land bridge between Asia and the Americans created during the last Ice Age 20-30,000 years ago used by prehistoric humans to travel from Asia to America. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 A society ruled by a hereditary and often semi divine chief. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Largest of the mound building site in the country. It is near present day St. Louis, MO. It was inhabited between 600- A.D. And about 20,000 residents lived there. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Capital city of the Aztec Empire. Located on the same site as present day Mexico City. It had 200,000 residents. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Gold: The lure of profit. God: The wish to spread their faith. Glory: The desire for individual/national acclaim.
A private company with several partners as investors. Partners hold shares in the company and receive payment from the company's profits. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The first permanent European settlement in North America in
TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Royal Grants of land to ex soldiers in the spanish military to encourage settlement in the New World. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas) as a result of content between Native Americans and Europeans. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 A French explorer who sailed through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River into the Gulf Of Mexico in 1679.
Was someone who signed a contract to work for a period of time to pay off their debt to another. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 The first popular uprising in the English colonies. It was a revolt of the inland colonist of Virgina (led by Nathaniel Bacon) against Royal Governor William Berkeley in 1675. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 (1739) The largest slave rebellion in the colonies until the America Revolution. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 An economic policy based on the idea that home country had the right to control all trade to and from its colonies. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 A series of acts passed by the English Parliament from 1660 to 1696 designed to control colonial trade.
A territory formed in 1686 by King James II of England and placed under the direct control of a royal governor. The Dominion included Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, East Jersey, West Jersey, New York, Plymouth, and Rhode Island.