Mound-holding culture that emerged
in the Ohio Valley c. 400 BC
smaller mounds in which they lived
and had graves-led to Hopewell,
more complex than Adena
This type of mound-building
and culture as well as
religion/technology spreas
far and wide
Virginia Company of London. aka the
Virginia Company. aka the London
Company
Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Separatists
Mayflower compact
Protestant Reformation
Roanoke/Sir Walter Raleigh
Joint stock company
Asiento
"permission" by the Spanish government to
other colonies to sell people as slaves to the
Spanish colonies between 1543-1834
Spanish used to use the Native Americans
for this, but they were quickly dying
because of the diseases that African slaves
were immune to
Bartolome de las Casas- Spoke out against
the atrocities of the Encomienda system
(and treatment of Native Americans)
Captain John Rolfe
Manitou
Conquistadors
Conqueror of Spain (ex. Columbus)
Claimed land for Spain
Became the "leaders" of
the land that they
conquered in place of the
King and Queen of Spain
Encomeinda system-the system by which
the Spanish crown defitabned the status
of the Indian population, it was
established by Conquistadors
iroquois League
Reciprocity
Headrights/ Head
right system
William Bradford, of Plymouth Plantation
Elizabeth I
Treaty of Tordesillas
- Signed by
Isabella/King John II
of Portugal in 1492
It drew a line in the mid-atlantic
dividing all future discoveries
between Spain and Portugal
Limited land to be
claimed by others, but
was later ignored
Christopher Columbus-Land
became the important issue when
Columbus discovered the potential
for resources and wealth
Virginia Company of
Plymouth Company aka the
Plymouth Company
Algonquian
New Laws of 1452
Spanish laws to prevent the exploitation
of the indigenous peoples of the
Americas by the Encomenderos (large
enterprise land owners) by strictly
limiting their power
Led to the use of Africans as slaves
instead of Native Americans
Bartolome de Las casas-His
writings brought the atrocities
that were being committed to the
attenwion to the Spanish crown