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APUSH Chapter 1 Test

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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Christopher Columbus
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Henry the Navigator
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Protestant Reformation
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Spanish Armada
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Asiento System
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Spain
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Jamestown
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Amerigo Vespucci
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South American Natives
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Samuel de Champlain
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Renaissance
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Conquistadors
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John Rolfe
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Encomienda System
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New World
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Jacques Cartier
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Native Americans
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Hernan Cortes
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Father Jacques Marquette
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Italian sailor. 1st realized Columbus had discovered a "new" continent. Americas named after him.
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The king of Spain gave grants of land and Native Americans to individual spa
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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
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French - 1534-1542 - Explored the St. Lawerence River. Also looking for a Northwest Passage.
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1350-1600; rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity
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Explorers and conquerors from Spain who secured Spain's initial supremacy in the New World.
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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.
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Great Majority lived in South and Central America; Mayas and Incas were largest groups
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1492 voyage supported by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Looking for a westward sea route to Asia.
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Sponsored voyages of exploration. Helped in succeeding in opening a sea route around Africa.
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Established first permanent French settlement in 1608 at Quebec. Regarded at "Father of New France"
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1673 - Explored the upper Mississippi River for France.
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Established the tobacco industry in Jamestown. He and wife Pocahontas developed a new variety of tobacco. Brought financial prosperity to the colony.
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and took empire from Montezuma (Mexico)
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Large fleet of ships that was the strongest navy at the time
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The country had been partly taken over by the Muslim invaders (Moors); Isabella and Ferdinand united their Christian kingdoms and kicked out the Muslims
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50-70 million in Americas in the 1490's
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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.
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North and South America called this after it was discovered that Columbus hadn't reaches Asia.
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Crossed Panama. Spanish conquistadors discovered Pacific on the other side.
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Were the 1st to explore for a new trade route to Asia, around Africa
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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.
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Great Plains Native Americans
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Pooled the savings of people of moderate means and supported trading ventures that seemed potentially profitable.
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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)
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French sponsored - 1524 - Looking for a Northwest passage. Explored the east coast, incluing New York harbor.
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1609 - Hired by Dutch to seek a northwest passage. Explored the Hudson River. Established Dutch claims to the area that would become New Amsterdam.
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1494 - Moved Papal Line of Demarcation a few degrees to the west.
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Joint stock company that established the 1st permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607.
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His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Magellan made it to the Philippines.

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