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Unit 1 AP US History Flashcards

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10509843045Maizecorn0
10509845311Great PlainsArea of Grasslands1
10509846944The Columbian Exchangethe widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries,2
10509850137Feudalismit was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour3
10509854086capitalismthe means for producing and distributing goods (the land, factories, technology, transport system etc) are owned by a small minority of people4
10509856831joint-stock companiesshares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.5
10509861860encomiendaassigned Native Americans in South America and Caribbean to work on plots of land owned by europeans6
10509886736castethe proper roles of the different racial groups in the Spanish empire7
10509892698conquistadorsExplorers & Warriors8
10509893041small-poxa deadly, contagious virus that left survivors scarred and often blind.9
10509894688Spanish MissionsThe purpose of the missions was to try and convert Native Americans in the Americas to the religion of the country that the settlers came from.10
10509898776mestizoa man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.11
10509909390Jaun de Sepulveda vs. Bartolome de casaswants Spanish to control Natives vs. Feels that its wrong to control the Natives and Blacks12
10509912505Maroonsa member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves13
10509914539Pueblogot the Name from Mexico because of the different way of building14
10509917877ChinookNative Americans in the Pacific Northwest15
10509922167iroquoisMohawk or Onondaga leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy16
10509924203algonquinthe language of the Algonquin people in Canada17
10509927592sextantused for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation.18
10509933252astrolabean instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements19
10509934433Christopher ColumbusMistakenly came to America in search of spices, enslaved Natives, Africans, killed many natives20
10509944326Juan Ponce de Leónhe was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Puerto Rico.21
10509955296Walter Raleigh: Roanoke colonyIt was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America22
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