A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
irreligious americans, who probably constituted a majority of the population in 1800. evangelical methodist and baptist churches were by far the most successful institutions in attracting new members from the unchurched
Economic type of society based upon the predominant use of unfree or slave labor to produce surplus products.
Led an army of 600 men to yucatán peninsula and defeated the Aztec empire by cutting off their food and water supply
Derived from Jewish monotheism that Jesus Christ is divine
As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy.
Explorer mistaken for Chinese. He acquired large amounts of pepper and cinnamon
System for selecting individuals for conscription, or compulsory military service, first implemented during the Civil War
Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes, castes, associations, and families
Wrote the Principia Mathematica in which he explained the movement of the plants around the sun. His work undermined the traditional Christian understanding of the cosmos.
Came up with the Virginia plan. Determined to fashion national political institutions run by men of high character
Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.
Was a husband, father, educator, physician, author, reformer, government employee, translator, U.S. Indian inspector, and lecturer
A 1797 incident in which American negotiators in France were rebuffed (rejected) for refusing to pay a substantial bribe
a famous chief and and Medicine Man of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands in Arizona