Ap Us History Vocab

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encomienda system

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a trueship labor system that was employed by the spanish crown
granted a person a specific # of natives whom they were to take responsibility
-reciever was to teach the natives spanish and convert them to catholics and in turn they would get goods from the indains.

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mestizo

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mix between spanish and indian

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Mulatto

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Person with a black parent and a white parent or black and white encestry

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Criollos

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Pure Spanish born in the Americas

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Roanoke

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First english colony in Americas organized by Sir Walter Raleigh

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Richard Hakluyt

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(1550's-1616)
Remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of north america by the english through his works

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Hernando De Soto

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(1549-1542)
Searched for Gold in Floridian Marshlands

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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(1549)
Treaty that divided the lands between Spain and Portugal in the new world.
most went to Spain but Portugal got Brazil

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Colombian Exchange

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The exchange of goods between the old world and the new world

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Fransisco Pizarro

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(1532)
Took 200 soldiers and conquered Peru

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mound builders

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Native Americans from the New Mexico region who built pueblos

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Black Legend

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The concept that conquerors merely tortures and butchered the Natives and left little but misery behind

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Fransisco Coronado

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(1540's)
expedition to the upper Rio Grand and Colorado Regions

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Pope's Rebellion

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(1680)
The pueblo destroyed every catholic church in the province and killed a score of priests and hundreds of Spanish settlers

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Lord De La Warr

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(1610)
-Came by relief Party
-new governor
ordered settlers back to Jamestown and imposed a harsh military regime on the colony, and soon undertook aggressive military action against the natives.

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Christopher Columbus

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in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue (Italian not Spanish, asked Spanish for funding)

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Great ice age

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began about 2 million years ago and created land bridges that allowed natives to cross into the new world

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Marco Polo

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an Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 and began telling tales of his twenty-year sojourn in Chine

This stimulated European desires for a cheaper route to the treasures of the east

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Renaissance

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(14th - 17th centuries)

a period of art and literature

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Juan Ponce De Leon

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(1513 and 1521)
Explored florida, seeking gold he died by an Indian arrow

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Montezuma

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the Aztec chieftan

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Queen Elizabeth I

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After Elizabeth ("the Virgin Queen") ascended into throne england became primarily Protestant.

fought the spanish Armada and entered the glory age

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Joint-Stock Company

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forerunner of the modern coporation

enabled a considerable number of investors called "adventurers" to pool their capital

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African Diaspora

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Spread of africans through the new world

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Barbados Slave Code

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a cod (law) that enabled masters to have have full control over their slave and took away the slightest freedom of the slave

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Sea Dogs

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Buccaneers, pirates arrr

(For Queen Elizabeth I)

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Powhatan

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Leader of the Powhatan indians in Virginia

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Pocahontas

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Daughter of Powhatan

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John Rolfe

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Married Pocahontas and it was the first interracial union in Virginia

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King James I

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King of england Sent a charter to explore the new world