Unit 1 AP US History Flashcards

10509843045	Maize	corn	0
10509845311	Great Plains	Area of Grasslands	1
10509846944	The Columbian Exchange	the 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
10509850137	Feudalism	it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour	3
10509854086	capitalism	the means for producing and distributing goods (the land, factories, technology, transport system etc) are owned by a small minority of people	4
10509856831	joint-stock companies	shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.	5
10509861860	encomienda	assigned Native Americans in South America and Caribbean to work on plots of land owned by europeans	6
10509886736	caste	the proper roles of the different racial groups in the Spanish empire	7
10509892698	conquistadors	Explorers & Warriors	8
10509893041	small-pox	a deadly, contagious virus that left survivors scarred and often blind.	9
10509894688	Spanish Missions	The 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
10509898776	mestizo	a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.	11
10509909390	Jaun de Sepulveda vs. Bartolome de casas	wants Spanish to control Natives vs. Feels that its wrong to control the Natives and Blacks	12
10509912505	Maroons	a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves	13
10509914539	Pueblo	got the Name from Mexico because of the different way of building	14
10509917877	Chinook	Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest	15
10509922167	iroquois	Mohawk or Onondaga leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy	16
10509924203	algonquin	the language of the Algonquin people in Canada	17
10509927592	sextant	used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation.	18
10509933252	astrolabe	an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements	19
10509934433	Christopher Columbus	Mistakenly came to America in search of spices, enslaved Natives, Africans, killed many natives	20
10509944326	Juan Ponce de León	he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Puerto Rico.	21
10509955296	Walter Raleigh: Roanoke colony	It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America	22