APUSH VOCAB UNIT 1 & 2

Pueblos

A group that was in New Mexico and evolved multi-faced societies supported by farming with irrigation systems

Lakota Sioux

Tribe moved away from farming to hunting and easily followed buffalo trails bc of the horses brought by europeans

Iroquois confederation

A political union of five independent tribes who lived in the Mohawk valley of New york

Encomienda system

Giving grants of land and natives to individual Spaniards. The Indians had to farm or work in mines

Asiento: Required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported

Joint stock company

Pooled in the savings of many investors

House of burgesses

Virginias first organized representative assembly in America 1916

headright system

Virginia attempted to attract immigrants though offers of land

Bacons Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against Berkeley’s government

Metacombs uprising

Chief of Wampanoags United many tribes in southern New England against the English settlers

Navigation acts

Series of 17th-18th century English laws designed to regulate colonial trade and direct wealth exclusivity to the mother country

Middle passage

Brutal middle leg of the triangular trade route where an estimated 12.5 million captive African Americans were forcefully transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the americas from the 16th-19th century