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23 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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Genoese sea captain who decided to make a daring voyage from Spain in 1492. Sailed west looking for an alternate route to Asia, landed in the Bahamas of North America
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Colonies
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A land controlled by another nation
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Hernando Cortes
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In 1519, the Sapinard landed on the shores of Mexico. He marched inland looking to colonize new land for Spain and find gold and silver. He and his forces of about 600 men finally reached the Aztecs. Believing he was a god the Aztecs didn't resist his demand for gold and silver, he conquered them easily.
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Conquistadors
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The Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century
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Francisco Pizarro
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In 1532, he marched with 200 soldiers to meet with the Inca rulers. He and his men waited in ambush and kidnapped their king. After recieving a large ransom, he stangled the king. Demoralized by the loose of their king, the Inca fell easily to his forces.
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Atahualpa
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Incan king, met with Pizarro, was kidnapped, and strangled after giving the Spanish the ransom.
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Mestizo
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A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
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Encomienda
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A grant of land made by the Spanish to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it.
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New France
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Early French explorers, led by Samuel de Champlain, sailed up the St. Lawrence with 32 colonists. They founded what is know known as Quebec. It was called ______ and became the base of France's colonial empire in North America
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Jamestown
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English settlers landed in Virginia in 1607, claimed the land as their own, and named the settlement _________ in honor of their king
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Pilgrims
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A group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution.
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Puritans
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A group of people who sought for freedom from religious persicution in ENgland by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s
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New Netherland
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The Dutch holdings in North America became known as ______ _______
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French and Indian War (7 years war)
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A conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763.
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Metacom (King Philip)
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Native American ruler who, in 1675, started the bloddiest battles between the French and Native Americans known as King's Philips War by attacking colonial villages throughout Massachusets
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
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Triangular Trade
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The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies and the colonies in America
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Middle Passage
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The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North America, to be sold as slaves--so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade
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Columbian Exchange
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The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas
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Capitalism
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An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in buisness ventures in order to make a profit
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Joint-stock Company
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A buisness in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits
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Mercantalism
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An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
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Favorable Balance of Trade
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An economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad
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