US HIST1301 Vocabulary

Uprising in 1680 in which Pueblo Indians temporarily drove Spanish colonists out of modern-day New Mexico.

• Uprising in 1680

• Pueblo Revolt

• Spanish Colonization

• New Mexico Conflict

An alliance of the Iroquois tribes, originally formed sometime between 1450 and 1600, that used their combined strength to pressure Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and to wage war across what is today eastern North America.

• Great League of Peace

• Iroquois Alliance

• European Pressure

• North American War

The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyages in 1492

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Trade

• 1492 Flow

• European Expansion

The list of moral grievances against the Catholic Church by Martin Luther, a German priest, in 1517.

• Ninety-Five Theses

• Catholic Grievances

• Luther's List

• Religious Reform

Large-scale farm in the Spanish New World empire worked by Indian laborers.

• Hacienda

• Spanish Farm

• Indian Labor

• New World Agriculture

A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Indians and advocated their better treatment. In 1552, he wrote A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies, which described the Spanish Empire's cruel treatment of the Indians.

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Spanish Missionary

• Indian Advocate

• Religious Reformer

Idea that the Spanish New World empire was more oppressive toward the Indians than other European empires; was used as a justification for English imperial expansion.

• Black Legend

• Spanish Oppression

• European Empires

• Colonial Myths

The "reconquest" of Spain from the Moors completed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492

• Reconquista

• Spanish Reconquest

• Moorish Conquest

• Iberian War

Spanish labor system under which Indians were legally free and able to earn wages but were also required to perform a fixed amount of labor yearly. Replaced the encomienda system.

• Repartimiento System

• Spanish Labor

• Indian Work

• Labor Regulation

Settlers who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the New World; Virginia and Pennsylvania were largely peopled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by English and German indentured servants.

• Indentured Servants

• Temporary Settlers

• New World Passage

• Servitude Exchange