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APUSH REVIEW AMSCO CHAPTER 1-13 EXAMAmerican Indian Culture of the Western - Answer hunting, gathering, and FISHING;
Acorns were a pivotal part of the Californian diet; Salmon was plentiful along the Columbia and Colorado rivers. Were used in trade.
American Indian culture of the Southwest - Answer introduction of agriculture; largest irrigation systems to date,
American Indian culture of the Northeast - Answer farming squash, corn, beans ("Three Sisters"); Iroquois and Hurons made intricate pottery to store the surplus. They also wove baskets to aid in the farming process.
American Indian Culture of the Southeast - Answer 5 Civilized Tribes: Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. excellent farmers
Mississippian mound societies were larger and more complex than previous communities, indicating unprecedented population growth and wealth. Cahokia, near modern day St. Louis, was home to an estimated 40,000 Cahokian people, after whom the city was named. It became the major urban trade center along the Mississippi River.
American Indians Culture of Plains - Answer Introduction of corn, but shifts back to hunting and gathering;
The teepee—a conical tent made out of a buffalo skin and wood—was easy to put up and take down if a band was following a buffalo herd for hunting;
Introduction of horses,
Chattel Slavery - Answer Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right
to buy or sell that person.
Atlantic Slave Trade - Answer Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade.
Christopher Columbus - Answer An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World." Columbian Exchange - Answer The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Conquistador - Answer A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
colony - Answer territory settled and ruled by people from another land
Encomineda - Answer a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
Mestizos and Mulattoes - Answer People with mixed races between European and Latin
American or African descent
joint-stock company - Answer A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
Virginia Company - Answer Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in England.
Jamestown - Answer The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
Juan de Sepulveda - Answer Spaniard who supported the Spanish Empire's right of conquest and colonization in the New World. He also argued in favor of the Christianize of Native Americans.
Bartolome de Las Casas - Answer First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor.
Voodoo - Answer blend of Christianity and tribal animism; religion of slaves
maroon - Answer A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America.
Walter Raleigh - Answer Englishman who sponsored the failed attempt to establish an English colony at Roanoke.
John Smith - Answer English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia Powhatan Confederacy - Answer Group of Native Americans who traded with John Smith. The confederacy gets its name from its leader, Chief Powhatan.
Jamestown's starving time - Answer during the winter of 1609-1610, nearly 90% of Jamestown's 500 residents perished, the Powhatan Confederacy stopped providing them with food, and some of the colonists resorted to cannibalism
John Rolfe - Answer He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for
export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
Plantation Slavery - Answer Uncontrollable conditions of African Slavery on plantations; caused by the introduction of tobacco;
Indentured Servitude - Answer A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Headright System - Answer Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists.
House of Burgesses - Answer the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to
make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts.
4 main colonizing powers interactions to native Americans in North America - Answer Spain- conquer and enslave native inhabitants
France- significantly friendlier relationships; adopt native practices
Netherlands- build a great trading empire; settlements were just trading posts, fell to the
English quickly
English- attempted to exclude Native Americans as much as possible; Wars of Extermination
Puritanism - Answer The religion of a group of religious dissidents who came to the New
World so they would have a location to establish a "purer" church than the one that existed in England
Seperatists - Answer Those who separate from the Anglican Church of England and the
Crown because of a belief that the Church is beyond salvation. Many become migrants to continental Europe or the New World, and sometimes both.
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