APUSH Mega Review - Periods 1-5

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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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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 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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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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Native American confederacy located in the Northeastern Woodlands. They lived in permanent settlements consisting of multi-family longhouses built of wood and bark. They used three-sister agriculture and hunting to support their community.

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Iroquois

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Agricultural system employed by Native Americans of North America; Maize, beans, and squash were grown together to maximize yields.

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Three-Sister Farming

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A false notion used by its European competitors that Spain did little more than butcher the Native Americans of North America and steal their gold.

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Black Legend

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The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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was focused largely on the sole issue of preventing the expansion of slavery into new territory

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Black Codes were created to

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Restrict the rights of newly freed Black people