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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5814012198	Corn or Maize	Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations.	0
5814012199	Portugal	First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa.	1
5814012200	Treaty of Tordesillas	Treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal.	2
5814012201	Mestizos	Person of mixed European and Indian ancestry.	3
5814012202	St. Augustine	Founded in 1565, it's the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in US territory	4
5814012203	Roanoke Island, NC	Colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's.	5
5814012204	Indentured Servants	Penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World.	6
5814012205	Act of Toleration	Maryland statute of 1649 that granted religious freedom to all Christians, but not Jews and atheists.	7
5814012206	Columbus	Italian-born explorer who believed he arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on an unknown continent.	8
5814012207	Georgia	Founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists.	9
5814012208	Jamestown	Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony.	10
5814012209	Cause: Cultivation of Maize (corn)	Effect: Formation of large, sophisticated civilizations in Mexico and South America	11
5814012210	Cause: New sailing technology and desire for spices	Effect: European voyages around Africa and across the Atlantic attempting to reach Asia.	12
5814012211	Cause: Portugal's creation of sugar plantations on Atlantic coastal islands	Effect: Rapid expansion of the African slave trade	13
5814012212	Cause: Columbus's first encounter with the New World	Effect: A global exchange of animals, plants, and diseases.	14
5814012213	Cause: Native Americans' lack of immunity to various diseases	Effect: Decline of 90% in the New World Indian population	15
5814012214	Cause: Spanish conquest of larger quantities of New World gold and silver	Effect: Rapid expansion of global economic commerce and manufacturing.	16
5814012215	Cause: Aztec legends of a returning god, Quetzalcoatl	Effect: Cortes' relatively easy conquest of the Aztecs.	17
5814012216	Cause: Spanish need to protect Mexico against French and English encroachment	Effect: Establishment of Spanish settlements in Florida and New Mexico	18
5814012217	Cause: Franciscan friars' desire to convert Pacific coast Indians to Catholicism	Effect: Formation of a chain of mission settlements in California.	19
5814012218	Cause: The English victory over the Spanish Armada	Effect: Enabled England to gain control of the North Atlantic sea-lanes.	20
5814012219	Cause: The English law of primogeniture	Effect: Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.	21
5814012220	Cause: The enclosing of English pastures and crop land	Effect: Forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere.	22
5814012221	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.	23
5814012222	Cause: The English government's persecution of Roman Catholics	Effect: Led Lord Baltimore to establish Maryland.	24
5814012223	Cause: The slave codes of England's Barbados colony	Effect: Became the legal basis for slavery in North America.	25
5814012224	Cause: The introduction of tobacco	Effect: created the economic foundation for most of England's southern colonies.	26
5814012225	Cause: The flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter run Virginia	Effect: Led to the founding of independent minded North Carolina.	27
5814012226	Cause: John Smith's stern leadership in Virginia	Effect: Whipped gold-hungry, nonworking colonists into line.	28
5814012227	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.	29