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AP US History
Stack #139563
| description | answer |
|---|---|
| landbridge first humans crossed to get into America | Bering Strait |
| American region with the most advanced native societies | South & Centra America |
| Indian confederation centered in NY consisting of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk tribes | Iroquois Confederation |
| the largest of Indian language groups | Algonquin tribes |
| 3rd largest language group, consisted of Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles | Muskogean |
| tribes became more sedentary and developed new sources of food, clothing, and shelter | Agricultural Revolution |
| 11th century Norse seaman who went to America | Leif Eriksson |
| 1st nation that had the strongest naval power | Portugal |
| Portuguese man who explored Africa and led to many other discoveries | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| made three voyages to what he thought was Asia but was America | Christopher Columbus |
| man after whom America was named because he wrote vivid descriptions of the land | Amerigo Vespucci |
| those who obtained licenses from the crown and controlled native labor (and therefore the land) | Encomiendas |
| main reason Natives were forced into submission | disease |
| Spanish man who led a small military expedition of about 600 men into Mexico in search of treasures | Hernando Cortes |
| brutal Spanish conquerors | Conquistadores |
| rules that banned brutal military conquests and spurred colonization | Ordinances of Discovery |
| the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States | St. Augustine, Florida |
| an Indian religious leader named Pope led an uprising that killed 100s of European settlers, captured Santa Fe, and drove the Spanish temporarily from the region in response to repression of Native religious rituals | Pueblo Revolt of 1680 |
| area from which most African slaves came to America | Guinea |
| society where people trace heredity/inhereted property through their mothers | matrilineal society |
| crop that caused slavery to increase | sugar cane |
| English man who searched for a northwest passage through the New World to the Orient | John Cabot |
| country that suffered from wars, religious strife, and lack of food | England |
| movement where the countryside was removed from farmers and made into sheep pastures. Farmers lost their jobs and land | Enclosure Movement |
| principle economic belief in Europe in 16th/17th centuries stating that goal of economy was to increase nation's total wealth | Mercantilism |
| began Protestant Reformation by challenging Roman Catholic Church and saying o salvation could be attained through faith (not works) and o the Bible, not the church, was the authentic voice of God | Martin Luther |
| _____ was created by ____ and stated that humans had a fate predetermined by God to be saved or damned | John Calvin/Doctrine of Predestination |
| when England broke off from the Catholic church and created its own | English Reformation |
| called for reforms that would “purify” the church | Puritans |
| wanted to break off from the church | Separatists |
| place English first tried to colonize | Ireland |
| first permanent French settlement | Quebec |
| nation that was close with the Indians and depended on them for fur trading | French |
| ______ who sailed up the ____ river and led to Dutch claiming American land | Henry Hudson/Hudson |
| landlords who were given land for bringing more immigrants to America | Patroons |
| name of Dutch colony/name of its primary town | New Netherland/New Amsterdam |
| first permanent English settlement | Jamestown, Virginia |
| large military fleed which led to loss of Spanish naval power | Spanish Armanda |
| pioneer of British colonization and sent two expeditions to Roanoke | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| lost colony | Roanoke |
| the two commanders of the Roanoke expeditions | Sir Richard Grenville/John White |
| first American-born child of English parents | Virginia Dare |
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