Us History Study Notes
Exam one study guide US History to 1865
Tenochtitlan-city surrounded by Lake Texcoco. Aztec Capitol. Imitated the ruined temple city of Teotihuacan. Hernan Cortes defeated it in 1519
Pequot War- 1637 The Pequot Indians resided near the mouth of the Connecticut River which is also where Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop’s son were trying to launch a town. Fearing the Pequot would recruit all other Indians against the English, the English unleashed an all-out war with the Pequot. The Puritans allies were shocked at the carnage. Over 400 Indian men women and children died. New England negotiated most of their land out to keep the peace.
Ignatius Loyola- Spanish soldier that led the new Catholic religious order called the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits and represented one dimension of the Counter-Reformation. Willing to give up their lives for their beliefs, the dedicated missionaries and teachers helped reenergize the Catholic faith and spread it to distant parts of the world.
Roanoke Island-May 1587 John White led a English venture to America w/11 people, including women and children. The planned on settling in Chesapeake Bay but ended up North at Roanoke Island. White got send back in August to England for more supplies but he got held up for three yrs and when he returned in 1590 it was deserted. The word Croatoan carved on a post suggesting that the survivors joined the nearby tribe but no one knows. Its also known as the “Lost Colony”
Encomiendas- The Spanish enconmienda system, imposed in Spains American empire, requiring Indian communities to supply labor or pay tribute to a local colonial overload. Basically the Spanish led occasional raids on the Plains Indians and kept some captives and shipped others to the south to be slaves in the Mexican silver mines.
Iroquois League- a Native American confederacy, located in central New York, originally composed of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca Indians and later including the Tuscarora.
Tenochtitlan-city surrounded by Lake Texcoco. Aztec Capitol. Imitated the ruined temple city of Teotihuacan. Hernan Cortes defeated it in 1519
Pequot War- 1637 The Pequot Indians resided near the mouth of the Connecticut River which is also where Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop’s son were trying to launch a town. Fearing the Pequot would recruit all other Indians against the English, the English unleashed an all-out war with the Pequot. The Puritans allies were shocked at the carnage. Over 400 Indian men women and children died. New England negotiated most of their land out to keep the peace.
Ignatius Loyola- Spanish soldier that led the new Catholic religious order called the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits and represented one dimension of the Counter-Reformation. Willing to give up their lives for their beliefs, the dedicated missionaries and teachers helped reenergize the Catholic faith and spread it to distant parts of the world.
Roanoke Island-May 1587 John White led a English venture to America w/11 people, including women and children. The planned on settling in Chesapeake Bay but ended up North at Roanoke Island. White got send back in August to England for more supplies but he got held up for three yrs and when he returned in 1590 it was deserted. The word Croatoan carved on a post suggesting that the survivors joined the nearby tribe but no one knows. Its also known as the “Lost Colony”
Encomiendas- The Spanish enconmienda system, imposed in Spains American empire, requiring Indian communities to supply labor or pay tribute to a local colonial overload. Basically the Spanish led occasional raids on the Plains Indians and kept some captives and shipped others to the south to be slaves in the Mexican silver mines.
Iroquois League- a Native American confederacy, located in central New York, originally composed of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca Indians and later including the Tuscarora.