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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| 572966977 | Corn or Maize | Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations. | |
| 572966978 | Portugal | First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa. | |
| 572966979 | Horse | Animal introduced by Europeans that changed Indian way of life on the Great Plains | |
| 572966980 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal. | |
| 572966981 | Mestizos | Person of mixed European and Indian ancestry. | |
| 572966982 | St. Augustine | Founded in 1565, it's the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in US territory | |
| 572966983 | Black Legend | Belief that the Spanish only killed, tortured, and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good | |
| 572966984 | Roanoke Island, NC | Colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's. | |
| 572966985 | Joint-stock | Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures. | |
| 572966986 | Charter | Royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their rights as English citizens. | |
| 572966987 | Indentured Servants | Penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World. | |
| 572966988 | Act of Toleration | Maryland statute of 1649 that granted religious freedom to all Christians, but not Jews and atheists. | |
| 572966989 | Squatters | Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | |
| 572966990 | House of Burgesses | Located in VA; 1st Representative Government in New World. | |
| 572966991 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages of discovery. | |
| 572966992 | Cortes | Spanish Conqueror of the Aztecs. | |
| 572966993 | Pizarro | Spanish Conqueror of the Incas. | |
| 572966994 | Dias and DaGama | Portuguese navigators who led early voyages of discovery. | |
| 572966995 | Columbus | Italian-born explorer who believed he arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on an unknown continent. | |
| 572966996 | Montezuma | Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors | |
| 572966997 | Elizabeth I | Unmarried English ruler who led England to national glory. | |
| 572966998 | Hiawatha | Legendary founder of the powerful Iroquois Confederation | |
| 572966999 | John Cabot | Italian-born explorer sent by the English to explore the coast of North America in 1498 | |
| 572967000 | Georgia | Founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists. | |
| 572967001 | North Carolina | Colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit". | |
| 572967002 | Smith and Rolfe | Leaders who rescued Jamestown colony from the "starving time". | |
| 572967003 | Maryland | Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics. | |
| 572967004 | Lord Baltimore | Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers. | |
| 572967005 | South Carolina | Colony that turned to disease-resistant African-American slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations. | |
| 572967006 | Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies. | |
| 572967007 | Jamestown | Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony. | |
| 572967008 | Cause: The Great Ice Age | Effect: Exposure of a "land bridge" between Asia and North America. | |
| 572967009 | Cause: Cultivation of Maize (corn) | Effect: Formation of large, sophisticated civilizations in Mexico and South America | |
| 572967010 | Cause: New sailing technology and desire for spices | Effect: European voyages around Africa and across the Atlantic attempting to reach Asia. | |
| 572967011 | Cause: Portugal's creation of sugar plantations on Atlantic coastal islands | Effect: Rapid expansion of the African slave trade | |
| 572967012 | Cause: Columbus's first encounter with the New World | Effect: A global exchange of animals, plants, and diseases. | |
| 572967013 | Cause: Native Americans' lack of immunity to various diseases | Effect: Decline of 90% in the New World Indian population | |
| 572967014 | Cause: Spanish conquest of larger quantities of New World gold and silver | Effect: Rapid expansion of global economic commerce and manufacturing. | |
| 572967015 | Cause: Aztec legends of a returning god, Quetzalcoatl | Effect: Cortes' relatively easy conquest of the Aztecs. | |
| 572967016 | Cause: Spanish need to protect Mexico against French and English encroachment | Effect: Establishment of Spanish settlements in Florida and New Mexico | |
| 572967017 | Cause: Franciscan friars' desire to convert Pacific coast Indians to Catholicism | Effect: Formation of a chain of mission settlements in California. | |
| 572967018 | Cause: The English victory over the Spanish Armada | Effect: Enabled England to gain control of the North Atlantic sea-lanes. | |
| 572967019 | Cause: The English law of primogeniture | Effect: Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization. | |
| 572967020 | Cause: The enclosing of English pastures and crop land | Effect: Forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere. | |
| 572967021 | Cause: Lord DeLa Warr's use of brutal "Irish tactics" in Virginia | Effect: led to the two Anglo-Powhatan wars that virtually exterminated Virginia's Indian population. | |
| 572967022 | Cause: The English government's persecution of Roman Catholics | Effect: Led Lord Baltimore to establish Maryland. | |
| 572967023 | Cause: The slave codes of England's Barbados colony | Effect: Became the legal basis for slavery in North America. | |
| 572967024 | Cause: The introduction of tobacco | Effect: created the economic foundation for most of England's southern colonies. | |
| 572967025 | Cause: The flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter run Virginia | Effect: Led to the founding of independent minded North Carolina. | |
| 572967026 | Cause: John Smith's stern leadership in Virginia | Effect: Whipped gold-hungry, nonworking colonists into line. | |
| 572967027 | Cause: Gorgia's unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks | Effect: Kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time. |
