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Unit 1
APUSH Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Great Basin | area between Rocky Mountains in east and Sierra Nevada in west (present-day area around Utah and Nevada) |
Pueblo | Indian tribe of southwest; focused on maize (corn) cultivation |
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 |
mestizo | mix of Indian and European |
zambo | mix 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 |
Pope | leader of the Pueblo Revolt in the American southwest in 1680 |
Atlantic World | The interactions among the peoples and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Started during Age of Exploration. |
Secotan | An Algonquin village in present-day North Carolina circa 1585 |
Encomienda system | New World Spanish explorers, conquistadores, and military men were rewarded with land and Native American labor. |
Asiento system | As Natives died from disease and brutality, the Spanish began to bring enslaved people from West Africa to the New World; forerunner of Triangular Trade |