APUSH AMSCO Unit 1

The Spanish had to pay a tax on every West African slave they brought to the New World.

• Mercantilism

• Encomienda System

• Triangular trade

• Asiento System

Spanish priest who was an advocate for the rights of Native Americans and who eventually got Spanish monarchs to pass the New Laws of 1542.

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Gines de Sepulveda

• Hernan Cortes

an explorer funded by Spain who believed he had found a new path to Asia, but had really found a New World, the Americas.

• Henry the Navigator

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

Spanish explorers and conquerors who conquered the New World.

• Conquistadores

• Iroquois Confederation

• Woodland Mound Builders

• mestizos

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• triangular trade

• columbian exchange

• mercantilism

• Encomienda System

a system where the Native Americans provided labor for the Spanish who got rich off of it and in return they would get "care" from their masters.

• Slavery

• Asiento System

• Encomienda System

• three sister farming

introduction of the horse radically changed the way of life for most ________ Indians.

• Northeast

• Great Basin

• Southwest

• Great Plains

led the conquest of the Incas in Peru and secured Spain's initial supremacy in the Americas.

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry Hudson

• Juan Gines de Sepulveda

led the conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico.

• Francisco Pizarro

• John Cabot

• Hernan Cortes

• Jacques Cartier

Great Plains tribes who moved from farming to hunting when horses were introduced; hunted buffalo and lived in teepees; commonly nomadic.

• Lakota Sioux

• Incas

• Anasazi, and Pueblos

• Aztecs