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

• Virginia Company

• Joint-Stock Companies

• Mission System

• Mestizos

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

• Mission System

• Encomienda System

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

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

• Spanish Armada

• Mission System

• Columbian Exchange

• Pope's Rebellion

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.

• Mission System

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

• Pope's Rebellion

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.

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez

• Juan Gines de Sepulveda

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.

• Iroquois

• Moundbuilders

• Anasazi

• Chinook

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

• Three-Sister Farming

• Encomienda System

• Terrace Agriculture

• Plough Farming

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

• Black Legend

• Black Codes

• Black Monday

• Black Hawk War

The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

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

• did not believe Avatar Aang could defeat the Fire Lord

• was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.

• strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.

Black Codes were created to

• provide farmland for former slaves

• guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans

• Support the Freedman's Bureau

• Restrict the rights of newly freed Black people