APUSH Contact to Slave Trade

Fort Mose, Angola, and Negro Fort

Name the three free black settlements located in Spanish Florida

Hiawatha

The Deganawidah Epic tells of this Iroquois chief receiving a vision describing a Great League of Peace

Longhouse

Families made up of multiple generations and relatives of the same family

Anasazi

A Navajo term meaning “Ancient Ones.”

Iroquois

The most powerful Native Americans in the East on the eve of European arrival

Mesoamerica

The name given to Central and Southern Mexico; the most populated site in America prior to European colonization

Wampum

Gifts that were given in condolence that sometimes took the form of shells or shells or beads

Mississippians

The first full-time farmers in the East — they lived on the floodplains of the Mississippi River

encomienda

The process of providing Native American slaves to colonists for the promise of teaching Christianity to such slaves

Nuclear family

Families comprised of a husband, wife, and their biological children

Reciprocity

The mutual giving of gifts and favors rather than gaining power at the expense of others through war

Aztec

The dominant Native American tribe in Central Mexico at the time of European colonization

Iroquois Confederacy

The political alliance established within the long house of the most powerful tribe in the east

Pueblo

Today, these peoples are believed to have descended from the ancient Anasazi peoples

Archaic peoples

The name given to Native Americans after 8000 B.C., when the climate and environment began to change

mourning wars

A kind of war that was fought to exercise grief

Estevanico

The first African to travel across much of Florida

tight packing

The method of packing that was preferred by most slave ship captains

barracoons

An outdoor holding pen where slaves were dehumanized

Middle Passage

The passage into slavery involved being transported across the Atlantic Ocean

St. Augustine

The oldest continuous European settlement in North America

Juan Ortiz

Spaniard who directly participated in the Real Pocahontas story

Krumen

The most successful African slave raiders

Pedro Menendez

The Founder of St. Augustine

Portugal

This country inaugurated the Atlantic Slave Trade

Panfilo de Narvaez

Juan Ortiz came to Florida seeking survivors of this failed expedition

Lisbon, Portugal

The first large African slave auction in Europe

Bishop Bartolomo de las Casa

This Catholic Bishop convinced the King of Spain to begin using Africans rather than Native Americans as labor in Spanish territories

Asiento

A license required to sell slaves into Spanish territories

Hernando DeSoto

This Spanish explorer and his men passes through what is now Tallahassee while on an expedition across much of the Southeast, leaving hogs, cattle, and “war dogs” along the way

Cabezo de Vaca

Author of Shipwreck, he originally traveled on the failed Narvaez expedition

Hohokam

An influential southwestern culture; they built irrigation canals and permanent towns

Mesoamerica

At the time of European arrival in the New World, where the greatest concentration of Natives was

Clovis point

A lasting technical innovation developed by the Clovis people

Prince Henry The Navigator

Prince of Portugal who founded an influential navigation school for sailors

Garakonite

A prominent Onodaga headman in the Iroquois Confederacy

Tristan de Luna

Spanish explorer who saw his fleet devastated by a storm while anchored in Pensacola Bay

Speculum oris

A device used to deter hunger strikes on slave ships

The Gloria

Brazilian ship was an example of the divide-and-conquer strategy utilized by Europeans

1. barracoons

2. the Middle Passage

3. slave markets

The three passages into slavery