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Stufflet APUSH U1
Unit 1 APUSH
Term | Definition |
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Pueblo | Indian tribe of southwest; focused on maize cultivation (corn) |
Chinook | Indian tribe of northwest; sedentary; hunting, fishing, foraging |
Sioux | Indian confederation of Great Basin and Great Plains; migratory due to lack of resources; chased buffalo |
Iroquois | Indian tribe of northeast; cultivated crops and migratory; some permanent villages |
mestizo | mix of Indian and European |
zambo | mix of of Indian and African |
Columbian exchange | exchange of animals, plants, cultures, populations, diseases, etc between Europe and the Americas after 1492 |
joint stock company | company in which different amounts (stakes) can be bought of a company; you receive profits in relation to your stake |
sextant | instrument used to measure latitude |
Juan de Sepulveda | Spanish humanist that claimed Indians were natural slaves in Valladolid debate; Indians were "as children to parents, as women to men" as thus inferior |
Bartolome de las Casas | Spanish humanist that claimed Indians were created in God's image, and thus should not be enslaved; he said "All the peoples of the world are men and thus possess natural rights, including the right to liberty." |
Valladolid debate | debate over the treatment of Indians between Sepulveda and las Casas in the early 1500s |
Pueblo Revolt | example of how Indians strove to maintain independence in face of European subjugation; led by Pope, it was revolt against Spanish and the Catholicism they brought |
context | The setting or circumstances surrounding an event that allows you to understand the event better |
Potosi | silver mines in South America mined for Spanish by native labor |
encomienda | a grant given by the king of Spain to a conqueror in the Americas to exploit the labor (Native Americans) on the land that was conquered |
Hopi | southwestern tribe characterized by matrilineal gender structure |