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Unit 1 Vocab APUSH
Ap US History Vocab Unit 1
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 north east; 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 people's of the world are men and thus possess natural rights, including the right to liberty." |
valladolid debate | debate over treatment of indians between sepulveda and las casas in 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 |
Pope | leader of the pueblo revolt in the american southwest in 1680 |