Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Chapter 1 of Preparing for the Advanced Placement Class

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Native Americans   50-70 million in Americas in the 1490's  
🗑
Souix   Great Plains Native Americans  
🗑
Pawnee   Great Plains Native Americans  
🗑
Pueblo   Native American group that lived in the Southwest in multistoried buildings and developed intricate irrigation systems for farming  
🗑
Adena   Native American moundbuilding society; located east of the Mississippi River  
🗑
Hopewell   Native American moundbuilding society located east of the Mississippi River  
🗑
Iroquois   Formed a political confederacy (league of Iroquois) able to withstand attacks from Europeans and other native groups  
🗑
South American Natives   Great Majority lived in South and Central America; Mayas and Incas were largest groups  
🗑
Renaissance   1350-1600; rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity  
🗑
Technology for Exploration   The compass, gunpowder, shipbuilding, better maps, and the printing press all added incentive for exploration  
🗑
Spain   The country had been partly taken over by the Muslim invaders (Moors); Isabella and Ferdinand united their Christian kingdoms and kicked out the Muslims  
🗑
Spanish Armada   Large fleet of ships that was the strongest navy at the time  
🗑
Protestant Reformation   Certain Christians in Germany, England, France, and Holland (among others) revolted against the authority of the pope in Rome. This led to a series of religious wars between the Protestants and Catholics. Added another incentive to exploration  
🗑
Trade   Economic motives for trade grew out of competition among European countries for India, Africa, and China. Over land trade started in Venice and Constantinople and reached China. Wanted a new trade route not dominated by the Arabs  
🗑
Portugal   Were the 1st to explore for a new trade route to Asia, around Africa  
🗑
Henry the Navigator   Sponsored voyages of exploration. Helped in succeeding in opening a sea route around Africa.  
🗑
Nation-States   Country in which the majority of people share both a common culture and common political loyalties toward a central government. Monarch were gaining power in the 15th c. and building nation states.  
🗑
Christopher Columbus   1492 voyage supported by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Looking for a westward sea route to Asia.  
🗑
New World   North and South America called this after it was discovered that Columbus hadn't reaches Asia.  
🗑
Amerigo Vespucci   Italian sailor. 1st realized Columbus had discovered a "new" continent. Americas named after him.  
🗑
Papal Line of Demarcation   Vertical line drawn in 1493. Divided the world with Spain getting all lands to the west of the line. Portugal got all lands to the east.  
🗑
Treaty of Tordesillas   1494 - Moved Papal Line of Demarcation a few degrees to the west.  
🗑
Vasco Nunez de Balboa   Crossed Panama. Spanish conquistadors discovered Pacific on the other side.  
🗑
Ferdinand Magellan   His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Magellan made it to the Philippines.  
🗑
Hernan Cortes   Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and took empire from Montezuma (Mexico)  
🗑
Francisco Pizzaro   Spanish - conquered the Incas in Peru.  
🗑
Conquistadors   Explorers and conquerors from Spain who secured Spain's initial supremacy in the New World.  
🗑
Encomienda System   The king of Spain gave grants of land and Native Americans to individual spa  
🗑
Asiento System   System of African slaves under the Spanish. It required the Spanish to pay a tax to the king of each slave they imported to the Americas.  
🗑
John Cabot   Sailed for England - Explored the coast of Newfoundland in 1497.  
🗑
Giovanni de Verrazano   French sponsored - 1524 - Looking for a Northwest passage. Explored the east coast, incluing New York harbor.  
🗑
Jacques Cartier   French - 1534-1542 - Explored the St. Lawerence River. Also looking for a Northwest Passage.  
🗑
Samuel de Champlain   Established first permanent French settlement in 1608 at Quebec. Regarded at "Father of New France"  
🗑
Father Jacques Marquette   1673 - Explored the upper Mississippi River for France.  
🗑
Robert de la Salle   1682 - Explored the Mississippi River basin. Name Louisiana.  
🗑
Henry Hudson   1609 - Hired by Dutch to seek a northwest passage. Explored the Hudson River. Established Dutch claims to the area that would become New Amsterdam.  
🗑
Joint Stock Company   Pooled the savings of people of moderate means and supported trading ventures that seemed potentially profitable.  
🗑
Father Junipero Serra   Founded 9 of the Franciscan missions on the California coast in the 1780's.  
🗑
Virginia Company   Joint stock company that established the 1st permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.  
🗑
Jamestown   Est. 1607 - 1st settlers suffered great hardships from indian attacks, famine, and disease. Located in a swampy area on the James River that bred dysentery and mylaria. Many settlers were gentlemen unaccustomed to work and others sought gold.  
🗑
Captain John Smith   Became leader of Jamestown and saved colony from demise. Forceful leader who made colonists work to plant food and build shelters.  
🗑
John Rolfe   Established the tobacco industry in Jamestown. He and wife Pocahontas developed a new variety of tobacco. Brought financial prosperity to the colony.  
🗑
Royal Colony   Colony under the control of a king or queen.  
🗑
Puritans   Wanted to purify the Church of England of remaining Catholic rituals and traditions. Viewed by King James as a threat to his religious and political authority. Group was persecuted. Founded Plymouth and Mass. Bay Colony.  
🗑
Plymouth Colony   Founded by a group of Sepratists who 1st migrated to Holland and then founded a new colony. The Virginia Co. granted them land. Fewer than 1/2 of the 100 colonists were Sepratists. (1620)  
🗑
Separatists   A puritan who wanted to break away from the Chursh of England and form their own church.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: govtchr