AP US 1-2

Nation states

countries in which the majority of people shared both a common culture and lloyakty towards a central government.

Protestant Reformation

The Christian revolt against the authority of the pope in the early 1500s

Treaty of torsedillas

Established portugals claim to Brazil and gave Spain all of America

Henry The Navigator

Prince of Portugal who sponsored voyages

Roanoke island

an early English settlement established on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina in 1585. It is often referred to as the 'Lost Colony' due to the mysterious disappearance of its inhabitants,

joint-stock company

a business owned by a large number of investors

encomienda

Spain king grants natives to individual Spaniards

asiento

Slavery system that required colonists to pay taxes to the king for each slave imported

Francisco Pizzaro

Conquest of Incas

Hernan Cortes

conquest of Aztecs

John Cabot

English explorer

Proprietary colonies

Maryland, Pennsylvania under the authority of those given power by the king

Corporate colonies

Jamestown

Royal colonies

Virgins

John Smith, Rolfe, Pocahontas

Saved Jamestown through tobacco

Virginia

Former Jamestown, became this after decline and thus royal takeover

Separatists (pilgrims)

organize a separate church indécent of royal control

Puritans

Massachusetts Bay, believed the Church of England could be reformed

Act of Toleration

Created by Calvert to remove tensions between puritans and Catholics in Maryland

Protestant Revolt

Protestants overthrow a Catholic profiteer in civil war and appeal the act of toleration