Unit 1 Flashcards
Reasons Europe Moves Toward Exploration
Improvements in Technology, Religious Conflict, Expanding Trade, Developing NationStates
Discovering North and South America
Land Bridge-Native Population; Vikings; Christopher Columbus
Cultures in North America
Native Americans lived mostly in semi-permanent settlements in small populations; men:hunted, fought, built; women: gathered, food, children
Great Plains Tribes
Nomadic Tribes who hunted Buffalo
Pueblos
complex society that built multi-story dwellings
Iroquois
Iroquois Confederation or League of Confederation: political confederation of tribes to protect against other tribes and Europe. Located in Northern Part of N. America. Have to deal with early settlers
Aztecs
Complex society in central Mexico
Incas
Complex society in Peru
Columbus
1492; Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored him; came in early fall to the Bahamas, thought it was India
Columbian Exchange
exchange of new goods between Europe and Natives: crops, disease, spices, slaves
Treaty of Tordesilias
Spain and Portugal initiate exploration; both are Catholic and start competing; the Pope divides the New World between these countries; called Line of Demarcation; West of Line-Spain; East of Line-Portugal
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1513; Crosses Isthmus of Panama to get to Pacific
Juan Ponce de Leon
1513; Florida looking for Fountain of Youth
Ferdinand Magellan
1520; sailing around the world
Herman Cortes
Mexico
Francisco Pizarro
1532; Peru
Hernando de Soto
1539-1542; Florida and part of the Mississippi River
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
1540-1542; New Mexico-Kansas
Conquistadors
Spanish explorers who bring riches to Spain
Encomienda System
Spanish gov allowed colonists to enslave natives as long as they converted them
Asiento System
Spanish gov gave permission to other countries to sell slaves to Spanish Colonies
New England Colonies
Mass,RI, Conn, NH
Middle Colonies
NY,NJ,Delaware,Penn and products were grain, livestock, iron and rice
Southern Colonies
VA, Maryland, NC, SC, Georgia, products: tobacco,indigo, rice, farm products, furs
Chesapeake Colonies
Maryland, Virginia
Restoration Colonies
Carolinas, NY, NJ, Penn, Delaware
Corporate Charter
given to corporations, businesses, joint-stock
Royal Charter
area is still controlled by the crown
Proprietary Charter
given to individuals from the king