APUSH Period 1

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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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Large and powerful confederation of Algonquin-speaking American Indians in Virginia

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Powhatan

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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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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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North American Indians who lived in present-day Washington and Oregon; built extensive plank houses, lived in extended kinship groups; known for extensive trade networks

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Chinook

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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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Also known as the Pueblo Revolt - this rebellion was an uprising of Native American pueblos that resulted in the expulsion of Spaniards from New Mexico for about a decade.

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Pope's Rebellion

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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