APUSH Unit 1 (1491-1607)

Northwest Settlements

hunted, fished, permanently settled in longhouses

Hernan Cortes

conquered the Aztecs in Tenochitlan, Mexico in 1521

Francisco Pizzaro

conquered the Inca in Peru in 1532

Anne Hutchinson

A banished radical Puritan advocating for the separation of Church and State

Pochahontas

Daughter of Chief Powhatan who was one of the first to marry an Englishman and return to England with him

Jamestown

1607, the first permanent English settlement in America

Jacques Cartier

1534, claimed Canada for France, navigated the St. Lawrence river

Henry Hudson

1609, searched for the Northwest passage for the Netherlands, found the Hudson river

Bartolome de las Casas

Items from the Old World

Items from the New World

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of items, ideas, and diseases from Old to New world

The Sioux

The Iroquois Confederation

John Calvin