APUSH Period 1 Vocabulary

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Spanish soldiers who were central to the conquest of the civilizations of the Americas. Once conquest was complete, they often extracted wealth from the people they came to rule.

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Conquistadores

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Companies in which large numbers of investors own stock. They were able to quickly raise large amounts of risk and reward equally among investors.

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Joint-Stock Companies

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The brutal voyage of slave ships laden with human cargo from Africa to the Americas.

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Middle Passage

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Large and powerful confederation of Algonquin-speaking American Indians in Virginia

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Powhatan

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The biological exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world between 1492 and the 16th century. Initial impact was strongest between the Americas and Europe.

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Columbian Exchange

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American Indian peoples who lived in present-day New Mexico and Arizona and built permanent multi-story adobe dwellings.

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Pueblo

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North American Indians who lived in present-day Washington and Oregon; built extensive plank houses, lived in extended kinship groups; known for extensive trade networks

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Chinook

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Semiarid territory in central North America

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Great Plains

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A group of allied American Indian nations that included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.

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Iroquois

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System by which Spanish leaders in the Americas received land and the labor of all America Indians residing on it. For American Indians, this system amounted to enslavement.

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Encomienda System