Question 1

Mound Builders

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Name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 2

Creeks

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Are a Native American people traditionally from the southeastern United States.

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Choctaw

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Are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States.

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Cherokee

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Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States

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Iroquois

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Are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America.

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Christian World View

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Refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it.

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Native American World View

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Native people seem to agreed upon certain values and ways of seeing and experiencing the world as characteristic.

Question 8

Differences in War

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A conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.

Question 9

European Motives for Exploration

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He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.

Question 10

Spain

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A sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

Question 11

Christopher Columbus

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Was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.

Question 12

Treaty of Tordesillas

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divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands

Question 13

Conquistadors

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Were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers at the service of the Spanish Empire.

Question 14

Hernando Cortes

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Was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

Question 15

Aztec Empire

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An alliance of three Nahua city-states or "altepeme": Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.

Question 16

Montezuma

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Believing the Spanish to be descendants of the god Quetzalcoatl, tried to persuade them to leave by offering rich gifts.

Question 17

Francisco Pizarro

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Was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.

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Inca Empire

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Was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

Question 19

Columbia Exchange

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Known as the Grand Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian Hemispheres.

Question 20

Encomienda System

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Was a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor.

Question 21

Hacienda System

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Were plantations, mines, or even business factories.

Question 22

Mission System

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Comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans.

Question 23

Mestizos

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Used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent.

Question 24

“Black Legend"

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A style of historical writing or propaganda that demonizes the Conquistadores and in particular the Spanish Empire in a politically motivated attempt to incite animosity against Spain.

Question 25

St. Augustine

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He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.

Question 26

New Mexico

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A state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States.

Question 27

Pueblo Revolt

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Was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish settlers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico.

Question 28

Texas

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Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua

Question 29

California

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Is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive

Question 30

France

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Is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 31

Jacques Cartier

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A French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France.

Question 32

Samuel de Champlain

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Was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

Question 33

Coureurs de Bois

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Was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.

Question 34

Antoine Cadillac

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Was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, now an area of North America stretching from Eastern Canada in the north to Louisiana in the south.

Question 35

Robert de La Salle New Orleans

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Were a series of trips into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley by French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier,

Question 36

England

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Is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

Question 37

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.

Question 38

Roanoke

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The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.

Question 39

Pueblo Indians

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American Indians living in compact, apartmentlike villages of stone or adobe in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona.

APUSH LT#1

Learning Target #1

Term	Overview	Significance
Mound Builders	Name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains.	Mounds were constructed by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, early cultures distinctly separate from the historical Native American tribes extant at the time of European colonization of North America.
Creeks	Are a Native American people traditionally from the southeastern United States.	One of the two largest tributaries of the Alabama river and on the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers.
Choctaw	Are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States.	Many Choctaw died from disease, famine and attacks from white men and hostile Indians including the Comanche, during this transition, which came to be known as the "Trail of Tears".
Cherokee	Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States	The Cherokee Nation established the first free, compulsory public school system.
Iroquois	Are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America.	The structure of the Iroquois Confederacy inspired the American Colonists' development of the U.S.
Christian World View	Refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it.	Thinking it is just “complex philosophy” that has no relevance to real life, all they have actually done is revealed something about their own hidden worldview.
Native American World View	Native people seem to agreed upon certain values and ways of seeing and experiencing the world as characteristic.	Different factors which have been used to define "Indianness," and the source and potential use of the definition play a role in what definition is used.
Differences in War	A conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.	Conflicts created and carried out by military forces and is between two or more nations.
European Motives for Exploration	He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.	Began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes.
Spain	A sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.	Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans. There had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873.
Christopher Columbus	Was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.	He was sailing for Spain in an attempt to find a quicker trade route to India.
Treaty of Tordesillas	divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands	The Pope decreed that all lands discovered west of a meridian 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to Portugal.
Conquistadors	Were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers at the service of the Spanish Empire.	Now the conquistadors merely lower class Spainards seeking income and a new life.
Hernando Cortes	Was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.	Cortez went to Mexico to find spices because at this time spices equaled power for countries because everyone wanted them.
Aztec Empire	An alliance of three Nahua city-states or "altepeme": Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.	During the Spanish campaign, Cortés allied with a number of the tributaries and rivals of the Aztecs, including the Totonacs, and the Tlaxcaltecas.
Montezuma	Believing the Spanish to be descendants of the god Quetzalcoatl, tried to persuade them to leave by offering rich gifts.	He was the ruler when Cortez arrived in Mexico. He first greeted Cortez, but later Cortez took him hostage and held him for a ransom of gold.
Francisco Pizarro	Was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.	Pizarro demonstrated what was worst about the early European explorers, especially the Spanish who were mainly interested in gold and silver.
Inca Empire	Was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.	Its significance was its discovery in 1911 as the largest socialist society to have existed.
Columbia Exchange	Known as the Grand Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian Hemispheres.	Columbian Exchange has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture.
Encomienda System	Was a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor.	It was suppose to be a way for the Home country to make sure that the Natives of the land which it was settling were to be taken in by Colonist and educated and become Civilized.
Hacienda System	Were plantations, mines, or even business factories.	Shortly after Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines, Spain sought to open up the newly colonized lands to Spanish settlers and reward those who conquered or occupied these territories through land grants known as encomiendas.
Mission System	Comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans.	The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to colonize the Pacific Coast region, and gave Spain a valuable toehold in the frontier land.
Mestizos	Used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent.	Notice in this hierarchy meztizos rank first, they were the progeny of Spanish and Indian parentage. Since this caste system is rank the Indian mothers were held in higher esteem than the others.
“Black Legend"	A style of historical writing or propaganda that demonizes the Conquistadores and in particular the Spanish Empire in a politically motivated attempt to incite animosity against Spain.	By using Black legend, English colonizers tried to convert people to Protestantism just as Spain converted local Indian to Catholicism. Black Legend provided North Europeans a reason to challenge Spain and establish their settlements in North America.
St. Augustine	He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.	His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity.
New Mexico	A state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States.	As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Hispanic and Native-American influences.
Pueblo Revolt	Was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish settlers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico.	a successful Indian uprising, and gave independence to Pueblo Indians for about 12 years.
Texas	Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua	The state's annexation set off a chain of events that caused the Mexican–American War in 1846.
California	Is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive	After gold was discovered, the population increased with U.S. citizens, Europeans and other immigrants during the great California Gold Rush. As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state, denying the expansion of slavery.
France	Is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.	The setting of The Age of Enlightenment helped which develed the intellectual framework for the American and French Revolutions, and the French Revolution, where absolute monarchy was overthrown and Republicanism took its place.
Jacques Cartier	A French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France.	His explorations of the Canadian coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541–42) laid the basis for later French claims to North America. Cartier also is credited with naming Canada
Samuel de Champlain	Was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.	Discovered the lake that bears his name and founding Quebec, the second permanent European city north of Mexico, and escalated the French alliance with the Hurons into an active role in their war against the Iroquois.
Coureurs de Bois	Was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.	They stimulated the growth of the fur trade and the exploration of Canada, and their defiance caused problems for the government of New France and contributed to poor relations with the Native Americans.
Antoine Cadillac	Was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, now an area of North America stretching from Eastern Canada in the north to Louisiana in the south.	Cadillac founded the city of Detroit in 1701 and was the governor of the Louisiana Territory from 1710 to 1716 or 1717.
Robert de La Salle New Orleans	Were a series of trips into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley by French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier,	Arrived at the point where the Mississippi river empties in to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed that territory of France; naming it Louisiana.
England	Is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.	The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
Sir Walter Raleigh	Was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.	He established the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island and popularised tobacco and the potato to Europe.
Roanoke	The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.	The people disappeared; & became known as "The Lost Colony." The hypothesis is that the colonists were absorbed by one of the indigenous populations, or the colonists may have been massacred by the Spanish or Powhatan Confederacy.
Pueblo Indians	American Indians living in compact, apartmentlike villages of stone or adobe in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona.	In 1680 a Tewa man, Popé, led the Pueblo Rebellion against the Spanish. The colonizers retreated, but completed a reconquest in 1691. Most villages adapted to colonial rule, while maintaining the basic fabric of traditional culture.

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