Semester 1 Review 1

The firstborn son of a family would receive the inheritance, leading younger siblings to long for land in different parts of the world (colonization).

• Cahokia

• Primogeniture

• Renaissance

• Columbian Exchange

Rebirth of art, knowledge, and science in Europe that led to a longing for technological advancement and colonization

• John Calvin

• Martin Luther

• Columbian Exchange

• Renaissance

Population growth in Europe due to new food sources; disease and death upon the Native peoples of the New World due to lack of immunity to European diseases.

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Cahokia

• Renaissance

Mixed races between Europeans, Native Americans, and African laborers in the Spanish colonies

• Propietorships

• Puritans

• Mestizos and Mullatos

• House of Burgesses

Land given by a royal as a payment for loyalty. Leader of colony would be allowed to formulate the government and economy of the colonial structure.

• Puritans

• Cahokia

• Middle Passage

• Proprietorships

Collection of the colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massacusetts

• Dominion of New England

• House of Burgesses

• Committees of Correspondence

• Dominion of the South

Representative government of Virginia that became a basis for representative forms of federal government later on after the independence movement.

• Dominion of New England

• House of Burgesses

• Great Awakening

• Salutary Neglect

Period of European humanism that steered away from the Medieval thoughts of divine right and opened the door for individual rights and the arguments for revolution.

• Renaissance

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Albany Plan of Union

Religious revival in the American colonies that led to a spirit of revolution later on due to the collectiveness of the ideas throughout the colonies and the arguments for God being superior to any monarch.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Great Awakening

• Stamp Act Congress

Leader of the Great Awakening who traveled throughout the colonies with his fire and brimstone sermons attempting to put emotion back into the church.

• George Whitefield

• John Smith

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson