AP US History 1 Flashcards

4885142084	African Slave Trade		0
4885142085	Algonquian	The Algonquian Native Americans are the most extensive and numerous North American groups	1
4885142086	Atlantic World	Maritime commerce connected the peoples and nations that rimmed the Atlantic in a web of trade, conquest, settlement, and slavery	2
4885142087	Biological and Cultural Changes	Importation of european disesases to the new world. Assimilation of indian cultures into spainish colonys.	3
4885142088	Cahokia	Cahokia Mounds Remnants of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico.	4
4885142089	Catholic Missions	Were used as a main reason to set up colonies. Not only to get valuable resources but also to spread the word of god	5
4885142090	Charter Companies	chartered companies, associations for foreign trade, exploration, and colonization that came into existence with the formation of the European nation states and their overseas expansion.	6
4885142091	Christopher Columbas	Explorer for spain who is considered a leader in discovering the new world	7
4885142092	Conquistadors	Spanish warriors who helped take over the south and north americas tribes	8
4885142093	Corn Cultivation	Most tribes were engaged in sedentary farming such as corn and other grains	9
4885142094	Coureurs De Bois	Coureurs des bois were itinerant, unlicensed fur traders of New France known as "wood-runners" to the English on Hudson Bay and "bush-lopers" to the Anglo-Dutch of Albany	10
4885142095	Don Juan De Onate	Was a conquistador who was in search of great treasurs in what is now present day mexico	11
4885142096	Encomienda	a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indi	12
4885142097	Fur Trade	In the early 17th century, French traders began to use Huron (or Wyandot) middlemen to trade with the Native peoples in the Great Lakes region	13
4885142098	Henry Hudson	Henry Hudson was originally hired tp find a shorter route from europe through asia by using cutting through the artic	14
4885142099	Iroquois	Tribal group of native americans	15
4885142100	Jamestown	One of the first european settlements set up in virgina	16
4885142101	Matrilineal	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.	17
4885142102	Mercantilism	belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism	18
4885142103	Meso-Americans	Mesoamerican civilization, the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century	19
4885142104	Mestizos	Mestizo, plural mestizos, feminine mestiza, any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction	20
4885142105	Pueblo Revolt	In 1680 the people known collectively as "Pueblos" rebelled against their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest	21
4885142106	Puritans	Group of settler that settled in the new world in hopes of being free to practice their religion freely	22
4885142107	Racial Heirarchy	The belief that on coler of skin. It bases off of the belief that different skin colors are better than the other	23
4885142108	Roanoke	Spanish colony that misteriously had its inhabinents disappear	24
4885142109	Samuel DeChamplain	Founder of new france/ quebec	25
4885142110	Separatist	a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.	26
4885142111	Sir Walter Raleigh	English adventurer who became a favorite of queen victoria	27
4885142112	Smallpox	Disease from europeans that wiped out natives	28
4885142113	Tenochtitlan	Famous city that was ruled by the mexicas	29
4885142114	Woodland Indians	Mulitple tribes that lived in present day north eastern america	30