Period 1 Flashcards - McDowell APUSH

McDowell CHSAS APUSH Flashcards

Caste System – Race‑based social ranking in Spanish colonies.

Columbian Exchange – Trade of food, animals, and diseases between Old and New Worlds.

Encomienda System – Spanish forced Native labor.

Bartolomé de Las Casas – Priest who defended Natives.

Juan de Oñate – Conquistador who brutally attacked Natives.

Mestizo/Metis – Mixed Native + European.

Juan de Sepúlveda – Argued that Natives were inferior.

Conquest of the Americas – Europeans taking Native lands.

Zambo – Mixed Native + African.

Pueblo – Southwest farming tribe; adobe houses.

Iroquois – Powerful Northeast Native alliance.

Algonquin – Northeast tribes who traded with the French.

Northwest Passage – Imagined water route to Asia.

Roanoke

Lost English colony.

Three G’s

Gold, God, Glory