APUSH: Unit 1 Key Terms: Colonial Era

How historians believe the first humans got to the Americas during the last ice age

• “Beringia” Land Bridge

• Boats

• Airplane

• Aliens

A Pacific Northwest tribe. They traded dried salmon and had social gatherings called Potlatches

• Lenape

• Pueblo

• Chinook

• Mississippians

A southwest tribe that had autonomous tribes

• Lenape

• Pueblo

• Chinook

• Mississippians

A large tribe along the Mississippi River with a higher degree of political centralization and social stratification than many other North American tribes

• Lenape

• Pueblo

• Chinook

• Mississippians

The capital of the Mississippians

• Tenochtitlan

• Teotihuacan

• Cahokia

• Jamestown

The first Spanish explorer to make contact with the Americas. He thought that he had discovered the “East Indies.”

• Juan De Onate

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce De Leon

• Christopher Columbus

Spanish explorer who led an expedition to the American southwest and attacked the Pueblo at the Battle of Acoma

• Juan De Onate

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce De Leon

• Christopher Columbus

Spanish explorer who led an expedition to Florida

• Juan De Onate

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce De Leon

• Christopher Columbus

Farming with corn, beans, and squash

• River Agriculture

• "Three Sisters"

• Chinampas

• The three-field system

Christian conquest of the southern half of Spain from the remaining Muslims. It’s ending freed up funds for Spain to send Columbus across the sea.

• Encomienda System

• The Reconquista

• Hacienda System

• Sistema de Castas