APUSH 1.5 vocab

Question 1

conquistadores

Answer 1

• The adventurous explorers and conquerors that helped skilled leaders Ferdinand and Isabella with their new empire.
• Highly skilled individuals that helped the rulers Isabella and Ferdinand with Spanish dominance in the Americas.

Question 2

hernan cortes

Answer 2

• The man that led and carried out the conquests of the Aztecs in Mexico.
• His help aided in securing Spain’s initial supremacy in the Americas.

Question 3

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 3

• The man that led and carried out the conquest of the Incas in Peru.
• His help aided in securing Spain’s initial supremacy in the Americas.

Question 4

encomienda system

Answer 4

• After diseases killed most of the natives of Mexico and Peru, millions still survived. So they were incorporated into the Spanish emperor by using this system to control them in which the King granted natives to individual Spaniards.
• The natives were forced to farm or work in the mines. The fruits of their labor went to the Spanish, who had to “care” for the Indians.

Question 5

asiento system

Answer 5

• When the Spanish began trading with African partners who would supply enslaved people, they created this system.
• For every enslaved person a colonist imported to the Americas, they had to pay a tax to the Spanish King.

Question 6

transatlantic slave trade

Answer 6

• As many Europeans established colonies in the Americas, they imported enslaved people in very large numbers to the point where more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic to the Americas.
• 10 to 15 million enslaved people had been sent to the Americas before this ended.

Question 7

middle passage

Answer 7

• The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean slaves used to get to the Americas.
• Before the Transatlantic slave trade ended in the late 1800s, between 10 to 15 percent of African slaves sent died on the voyage.