SAT2美国历史知识点：发现新大陆之前.

　　下面为大家整理的是关于发现新大陆之前的SAT2美国历史知识点，非常详细，大家在复习SAT2美国历史时可以进行参考。

　　Part A. Pre-U.S. era

　　Pro Columbian Era (_-1500)

　　Native Americans: Incas (Peru), Mayans (Central America), Aztecs (Mexico), Anasazi (southwest), Iroquois (northeastern)

　　Columbian exchange: change in flora and fauna between Europe and America: tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes in America, animals, sugars, diseases in Europe.

　　Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain for America, Portugal for Africa

　　Battle of Acoma: fought between Spanish and Pueblo Indians; Spain took New Mexico

　　Pope’s rebellion: Indian uprising to Spanish Catholic missionary b/c they suppress natives’

　　Iroquois Confederacy: a council of elders of 5-6 tribes of Iroquois nation that met peacully for settling problems

　　English Settlements

　　Roanoke Island & Newfoundland: first colonies for England, but then failed b/c people vanished

　　Virginia: started by Virginia Company; mainly grows tobacco (but not spur slavery)

　　John Smith: the young adventurer in Virginia

　　Pocahontas: daughter of Powhatan that improved relations between colony and Indians

　　First & Second Anglo-Powhatan War: crushed Indians to get more land

　　Bacon’s rebellion: small indentured servants rebelled against bad conditions (let southerners consider slaves instead)

　　Maryland (former Chesapeake): haven for Catholics, but later too much Protestants; also tobacco

　　Act of Toleration: let Protestants tolerate Catholics here

　　West Indies: way station to mainland America, growing sugars with many slaves

　　Barbados slave code: denying even fundamental rights of slaves

　　Carolinas: growing rice (also slavery)

　　North Carolina: newcomers to Carolina (“squatters”) without legal right to SC soil

　　Georgia: buffer colony with Spain

　　Plymouth: established by Separatists / Pilgrims (most radical Puritans) from Mayflower

　　Mayflower Compact: establishing a crude government dominated by majorities; first precedent for written constitution

　　Massachusetts Bay Colony: largest English settlement with moderate Puritans

　　--Christian adults with properties had right to vote

　　Anne Hutchinson: proposing antinomianism against predestination

　　Connecticut & New Haven: expanded colonies from Mass. Bay

　　Fundamental Orders: in fect a modern constitution

　　Pequot War: the war to Indians after Thanksgiving when they started to use colonists’ land

　　Rhode Island: Baptist Roger Williams established it; free of religion & friendly to Indians

　　--Roger Williams used to be a poplar puritan minister, but later challenged authority for bad treatment to Indians and its regulation on religious behavior, so he was banished

　　New York & New Jersey: former Dutch colonies (New Netherland); later taken by English

　　Pennsylvania: established by Quaker William Penn; equal rights (even to Indians) and religion freedom

　　Blue laws: laws in Penn that forbid stage play, cards, etc

　　Delaware & New Jersey: also has Quakers

　　以上就是SAT2美国历史知识点中关于发现新大陆之前的介绍。这一段的历史对美国现在的生活方式的形成有重要的影响，大家可以根据这些知识点进行自己的备考。