AP US History Ch. 1 Flashcards
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| 14718900907 | Vasco Núñez de Balboa | 1st to see the Pacific ocean by crossing Panama | 0 | |
| 14718900908 | Black Legend | Idea that Spainish was more oppressive toward Indians than other Europeans, used as a justification for English imperial expansion | 1 | |
| 14718900909 | John Cabot | English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage | 2 | |
| 14718900910 | Cahokia | Along Mississippi River 1200AD. Largest settled community until the 1800s. Had 10,000-30,000 people | 3 | |
| 14718900911 | Samuel de Champlain | Founded Qubec | 4 | |
| 14718900912 | Chistopher Columbus | Found the Americas while looking for a faster route to India | 5 | |
| 14718900913 | Columbian Exchange | Exchange of good between Old world and New world | 6 | |
| 14718900914 | Encomienda System | Spanish gained ownership of Indian land | 7 | |
| 14718900915 | Henry Hudson | English navigator claimed the New York region for Dutch West India Company | 8 | |
| 14718900916 | Ferdinand Magellan | First person to circumnavigate the globe | 9 | |
| 14718900918 | Peninsulares | Persons of European birth | 10 | |
| 14718900919 | Francisco Pizarro | Conquered Inca | 11 | |
| 14718900920 | Pueblo Revolt | Led by a Native American, Pope, destroyed Spainish settlement | 12 | |
| 14718900921 | Hernando de Soto | First European to see the Mississippi River | 13 | |
| 14718921661 | Joint-Stock Company | a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. | 14 | |
| 14718921662 | Treaty of Tordesillas | set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | 15 |