APUSH Unit 1 Vocab

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corn

one of the three sister crops

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horses

brought to the americas, made transportation easier

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disease

not just cattle and crops were shared in the columbian exchange but also

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encomienda system

spanish early form of slavery

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asiento system

a different namde for indetrured servitude

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slavery

people were taken from africa to work for no pay

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land bridge

this connected pangea, and when it melted asia and america split off from eachother

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Adena-Hopewell Hokokam, Anazi, and Puebleos

where native peoples lived, before colonization

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Woodland mound

where natives built houses to protect from above ground dangers

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Lokota Sioux

This tribe fought against the reservation acts

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mayas

natives that lived in mexico

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incas

natives that lived in peru

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aztecs

natives that lived in technitiallan

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Conquistadors

Fought to gain more land for the spanish empire

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Hernan Cortés

Spanish conqustador known for killing all of the aztec peoples

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Fransisco Pizarrio

spanish conqustador known for conquering major portions of mexico

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New Laws of 1542

act put in place to stop those in charge of encomindas from expoiting the native peoples

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Roanoka Island

the actual first english settlement, but everyone disapeared

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compass

A tool used to distingish, north, east, south and west

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prinitng press

made the creation of books and texts cheaper and readiliy available to the public

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Ferdinand and Isabella

The were the king and queen of spain that appoved columbuss’ route to asia

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Protestant Reformation

lead by martin luther, against the english church

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Henry the Navigator

English explorer who is known for helping the portugesse

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Christopher Columbus

started the travel to the new world as he found riches

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Treaty of Tordesillas

Split land between Spain and Portugal because of increased tensions

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slave trade

began on the coasts of africa for labor on the sugar plantations

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nation-state

the native americans had established these sections of land to better their furtherment of society

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Algonquan

peoples that lived in the great plains

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Siuoan3

the mountain peoples native to north america

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Iroquois Confederation

An agreement among the native tribes of north america

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longhouses 4

comunal native american living homes

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John Cabot

Italian Explorer

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Jaques Cartier

firts eurpean to nativagte the st. Laurnce river

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Samuel de Champlain

the father of new france

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Henry Hudson

english turned swedish explorer

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

Described how black people were not people and made areligous justification of slavery for only blacks not natives as they were lighrter skinned

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Valladolid Debate

philisophical debate between Bartolomé and Juan

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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

argued taht it was spains job to enslave the native peoples of america

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