Chapter 5

Indians & Mission life

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Spanish expansion into Texas

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Comanches

Pg. 107 a member of an American Indian people of the southwestern US. The Comanche were among the first to acquire horses (from the Spanish) and resisted white settlers fiercely. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Comanche.

Ecueracapa

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Incident of Le Pesant

Pg. 113. he provoked inter-tribal warfare at Detroit in 1706; fl. 1703-12.

Colonial seaports

Pg. 117 a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels. a town or city at such a place.

Backcountry settlement

Pg. 117 a sparsely populated rural region remote from a settled area. settled land. In the early 1700s, it was the land between the Atlantic coastal region and the Appalachian Mountains. People lived simply in the backcountry.

Task system v. gang labor system

Pg. 121 The gang system is a system of division of labor within slavery on a plantation. It is the more brutal of two main types of labor systems. The other form, known as the task system, was less harsh and allowed the slaves more self-governance than did the gang system. The gang bang system was also much more efficient because it allowed continuous work at the same pace throughout the day, never letting up or slowing down. There were three gangs. The first gang(or "great gang") was given the hardest work, for the fittest slaves. The second gang was for less able slaves(teenagers, or old people, or the unwell slaves) and this gang was given easier work. The third gang was given the easiest work. The task system is a reference within slavery to a division of labor established on the plantation. It is the less brutal of the two main types of labor systems. The other form, known as the gang system, was harsher. The difference between the task labor system and the gang labor system was characterized by the amount of work time required by the slave and also the amount of freedom given to the slave. Some plantation owners allowed their slaves to produce goods for sale in task systems. The gang systems forced the slaves to work until the owner said they were finished and allowed them almost no freedom.

Slave Family

Pg. 122 The possibility of separation was an ever-present threat to every member of a slave family

Enlightenment

Pg. 123 a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

Stone Rebellion

Pg. 123 sometimes called Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed.

Great Awakening

Pg. 124 was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

Benefits of being neglect

Pg. 128 "Salutary neglect" was the unwritten, unofficial stance of benign neglect by England toward the American colonies. On the whole, the colonists were relatively autonomous and were allowed to govern themselves with minimal royal and parliamentary interference

Pierre Le Moyne d'Ilberville

Pg.114 16 July 1661 - 9 July 1706 [probable]) was a soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana of New France.

Spanish lega Advantages for women

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