APUSH Unit 1 Vocab

12 vocab words from unit 1

Juan de Onate

Spanish explorer and conquistador. He claimed New Mexico for Spain in 1598 and served as its governor until 1607.

Iroquois Confederacy

An alliance of five northeastern Native American peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English, it dominated W. New England.

joint stock company

A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

Pueblo

a communal village built by natives in the southwestern United States; Spanish word for village; A native American people group found in the Southwest, involved in building cliff houses

Sioux

Major northern Plains Indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war against the U.S. Army, 1876-1877

smallpox

The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease. Killed off a large part of the native american population.

maize

An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

Pope's Rebellion

A Native American uprising in 1680 where pueblo rebels in an attempt to resist catholicism and Europeans all together destroyed every catholic church in the province and killed scores of priests and hundreds of spanish settlers.

Hacienda

Spanish estates in the Americas that were often plantations. They often represent the gradual removal of land from peasant ownership and a type of feudalistic order where the owners would have agreements of loyalty to the capital but would retain control over the actual land. This continued even into the 20th century.

encomienda system

It gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity

Maroon Community

Self-governing communities of escaped slaves common in the early modern Caribbean (Jamaica) and in coastal areas of Central and South America