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AP US History: American Pageant Chapter 1 Flashcards

First will be terms and then Cause and Effect. I will update, and make sure I add as much information as possible about each chapter. :) This also helps me study, so I hope it helps all of you too.

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427740522Corn or MaizeStaple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations.
427740523PortugalFirst European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa.
427740524HorseAnimal introduced by Europeans that changed Indian way of life on the Great Plains
427740525Treaty of TordesillasTreaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal.
427740526MestizosPerson of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
427740527St. AugustineFounded in 1565, it's the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in US territory
427740528Black LegendBelief that the Spanish only killed, tortured, and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good
427740529Roanoke Island, NCColony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's.
427740530Joint-stockForerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures.
427740531CharterRoyal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their rights as English citizens.
427740532Indentured ServantsPenniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World.
427740533Act of TolerationMaryland statute of 1649 that granted religious freedom to all Christians, but not Jews and atheists.
427740534SquattersPoor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil
427740535House of BurgessesFirst representative government in New World.
427740536Ferdinand and IsabellaFinanciers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages of discovery.
427740537CortesConqueror of the Aztecs.
427740538PizarroConqueror of the Incas.
427740539Dias and DaGamaPortuguese navigators who led early voyages of discovery.
427740540ColumbusItalian-born explorer who believed he arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on an unknown continent.
427740541MontezumaPowerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors
427740542Elizabeth IUnmarried English ruler who led England to national glory.
427740543HiawathaLegendary founder of the powerful Iroquois Confederation
427740544John CabotItalian-born explorer sent by the English to explore the coast of North America in 1498
427740545GeorgiaFounded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists.
427740546North CarolinaColony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit".
427740547Smith and Rolfeleaders who rescued Jamestown from the "starving time".
427740548MarylandFounded as a haven for Roman Catholics.
427740549Lord BaltimoreCatholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers.
427740550South CarolinaColony that turned to disease-resistant African-American slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations.
427740551Raleigh and GilbertElizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies.
427740552JamestownRiverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony.
427740553Cause: The Great Ice AgeEffect: Exposure of a "land bridge" between Asia and North America.
427740554Cause: Cultivation of Maize (corn)Effect: Formation of large, sophisticated civilizations in Mexico and South America
427740555Cause: New sailing technology and desire for spicesEffect: European voyages around Africa and across the Atlantic attempting to reach Asia.
427740556Cause: Portugal's creation of sugar plantations on Atlantic coastal islandsEffect: Rapid expansion of the African slave trade
427740557Cause: Columbus's first encounter with the New WorldEffect: A global exchange of animals, plants, and diseases.
427740558Cause: Native Americans' lack of immunity to various diseasesEffect: Decline of 90% in the New World Indian population
427740559Cause: Spanish conquest of larger quantities of New World gold and silverEffect: Rapid expansion of global economic commerce and manufacturing.
427740560Cause: Aztec legends of a returning god, QuetzalcoatlEffect: Cortes' relatively easy conquest of the Aztecs.
427740561Cause: Spanish need to protect Mexico against French and English encroachmentEffect: Establishment of Spanish settlements in Florida and New Mexico
427740562Cause: Franciscan friars' desire to convert Pacific coast Indians to CatholicismEffect: Formation of a chain of mission settlements in California.
427740563Cause: The English victory over the Spanish ArmadaEffect: Enabled England to gain control of the North Atlantic sea-lanes.
427740564Cause: The English law of primogenitureEffect: Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
427740565Cause: The enclosing of English pastures and crop landEffect: Forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere.
427740566Cause: Lord DeLa Warr's use of brutal "Irish tactics" in VirginiaEffect: led to the two Anglo-Powhatan wars that virtually exterminated Virginia's Indian population.
427740567Cause: The English government's persecution of Roman CatholicsEffect: Led Lord Baltimore to establish Maryland.
427740568Cause: The slave codes of England's Barbados colonyEffect: Became the legal basis for slavery in North America.
427740569Cause: The introduction of tobaccoEffect: created the economic foundation for most of England's southern colonies.
427740570Cause: The flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter run VirginiaEffect: Led to the founding of independent minded North Carolina.
427740571Cause: John Smith's stern leadership in VirginiaEffect: Whipped gold-hungry, nonworking colonists into line.
427740572Cause: Gorgia's unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacksEffect: Kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time.

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