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Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
Martin Luther presented his Ninety-five Theses, a critique of the Catholic church, launching the Reformation.
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American Protective Association formed
In Clinton, Iowa, the American Protective Association was founded as a secret order to restrict Catholic immigration in the United States.
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Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503), who was elected pope in 1492, issued the Inter caetera, which divided lands in the New World between Spain and Portugal.
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James Blair
James Blair (1656–1743) was the Scottish Anglican clergyman who founded the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Blair left Scotland for North America after being removed from his parish for refusing to take an oath of support for the Catholic James II. In 1691, he traveled to England to lobby King William III and Queen Mary II for a charter to establish a religious college in the colonies. They granted the charter in 1693 along with an endowment for The College of William and Mary, which opened in 1695 with Blair as its...
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Noble/Ignoble Savage
As Europeans tried to place American Indians into a cognitive space that was consistent with their world view, two concepts arose that continue to color discourse about Indians. Because they could not conceive how Native Americans could have descended from Adam and Eve, some Europeans believed them to be innocent of original sin and characterized them as being more pure than previously known races of men. Others, however, speculated that they were not human at all and characterized them as a perverse, devilish creation. The clash between...
Teaching Resource
The Treaty of Tordesillas: Resolving “a Certain Controversy” over Land in the Americas
Background
Imperial rivalries have often been resolved through war; however, the Treaty of Tordesillas is an important example of a rivalry that was resolved without hostilities through the demarcation of areas of influence by the Catholic Church. The Treaty of Tordesillas successfully arbitrated which lands could be ruled by Spain and which could be ruled by Portugal by creating a boundary “three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.” This line ran from the North to South Poles....