APUSH Period 1-2 Review

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Pre-Columbian Southwest Indians were most noted for which environmental transformation practice?

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Irrigation

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Which of the following regions was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? The Southwest, The Northwest, The Atlantic Eastern Seaboard, The Great Plains

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The Great Plains

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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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Dominican friar who supported peaceful conversion of Nation Americans, advocated for Native American rights, and opposed the harsh treatment and forced labor of Native Americans.

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Bartolome de Las Casas

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The exchange of good, crops, and diseases between the Americas (New World) and Europe and Africa (Old World).

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Columbian Exchange

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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 formed when investors pooled their money together in exchange for a percentage of ownership on the company through stock. Such arrangements were used to fund England's early colonial efforts.

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Joint-Stock Companies

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Brutal transatlantic voyage of slaves endured between Africa and the American colonies.

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Middle Passage

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Spanish government's policy to give Native Americans to colonists to provide labor and to be converted to Christianity. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue native tribes.

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Encomienda System

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An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.

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Mercantilism