All the Key Terms that are listed at the end of Chapter 1 (The Collision of Cultures). These notes are taken from Alan Brinkley's "American History AP Edition" textbook.
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| 964059285 | Archaic Period (3) | Proper term for the period between 8000-3000 B.C. and applies only to the people of the America | 0 | |
| 964059286 | Meso-Americans (3) | Native people which originated from the Mexico or South, Central America e.g. all the people in the Aztecs empire were Meso-Americans | 1 | |
| 964059287 | Clovis People (3) | Mongolian-based people that are Natives to the Americas e.g. Incans are thought to be Clovis People | 2 | |
| 964059288 | Tenochtitlan (4) | A large city that reached 100 000 citizens by 1500, located in today's Mexico-City which was built by the Mexica people around 1300 A.D. | 3 | |
| 964059289 | Cahokia (7) | A city built by the Indians which was located around present day St. Louis and was built around 1100 A.D. | 4 | |
| 964059290 | Black Death (10) | An epidemic that originated from Constantinople (today's Istanbul) in 1347 and killed 1/3 of every European | 5 | |
| 964059291 | Christopher Columbus (12) | Born in Genoa, Italy he was funded by the Spanish queen Isabella and wanted to make a journey west, in order to find a faster route to Asia, but in 1492 he stumbled upon today's Bahamas and was the first man to set foot in the Americas, giving Spain a head start in the conquering of this new land | 6 | |
| 964059292 | Conquistadores (13) | Spanish explorers of the New World which were usually generals or men seeking financial profit; their "golden age" was between 1492-1600 in the Americas | 7 | |
| 964059293 | Encomienda (18) | Licenses or permissions to possess a certain amount of slaves per person and mainly used in Spanish society | 8 | |
| 964059294 | Matrilineal (22) | Societies where women played a large role in the ruling and/or government of the society, nation e.g. African women played the dominant role in trade of slaves and other goods | 9 | |
| 964064304 | Mercantilism (25) | Financial merchants and traders who worked overseas and worked to benefit their Mother-nation and its treasury stocks | 10 | |
| 964064305 | Protestant Reformation (25) | A reformation which began in 1517 in Germany when Martin Luther questioned the ways of the Roman Catholic Church and created religion of Protestantism | 11 | |
| 964064306 | Puritans (27) | Very active protestants who were discontent with the Anglican Church and were named Puritans | 12 | |
| 964064307 | Separatists (27) | Puritans which worshiped as they pleased which was illegal e.g. Quakers were most famous Separatists (although not all English but rather some German) which allowed women to be preachers in their religion | 13 | |
| 964064308 | Coureurs de Bois (30) | Adventurous French fur traders who lived mainly in Canada and bonded (were friendly) towards all the natives of the Americas | 14 | |
| 964064309 | Seigneuries (30) | French North American agricultural property | 15 | |
| 964064310 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert (31) | An English pioneer who was a veteran of the Ireland Colonization and was given rights by the Queen to take any land in the New World which hasn't already been conquered by any other man, conquered Newfoundland for the Queen in 1583 | 16 | |
| 964064311 | Sir Walter Raleigh (31) | Half brother of Gilbert, also veteran of the Ireland Colonization. Founder of Roanoke discovery | 17 | |
| 964064312 | Samuel de Champlain (31) | French explorer who founded the city of Quebec and attacked the Mohawk tribe in 1609 | 18 | |
| 964064313 | Roanoke (31) | An island and the region of landmass beyond it which is now today's North Carolina, but at that time was the first N.A. colony Virginia | 19 | |
| 964064314 | Jamestown (31) | First permanent settlement of the English in the New World which was located in Virginia and established in 1607 but also had struggles in thriving for first decades | 20 | |
| 964064315 | Henry Hudson (31) | English explorer employed by the Dutch who sailed down the today's Hudson River in 1609 and was first to set foot on today's New York City | 21 |
