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Unit 1 APUSH Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ChristopherColumbus | Italian navigator funded by the Spanish govn't to find a passage to East and South Asia but instead accidentally arrived in the Americas (in Oct. 1492)-- modern day Bahamas |
| GiovanniCaboto | "John Cabot" explored the northeast coast of North America for the English (in 1497) |
| PonceDeLeon | Spanish explorer who explored Florida (in 1513 and 1521) in search of gold and the fabled "fountain of youth" |
| HernandoDeSoto | Spanish conquistador who explored from Florida west to the Mississippi River with 600 men in search of gold (he was killed by NAs there) |
| FranciscoCoronado | Explored the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico (1540-42) looking for the legendary city of gold: El Dorado. He went as far north as Kansas, was the first white person to see the Grand Canyon and the vast herds of Bison on the Plains |
| BartolomDeLasCasas | A Spanish missionary who was appalled by the encomienda system and called it a "moral pestilence invented by Satan" |
| GiovanniDaVerranzo | An Italian explorer sent by the French king (1524) to probe the eastern seaboard of what is now the US |
| DonJuanDeOnate | The leader of a Spanish expedition that explored parts of Mexico and today's American Southwest (1598). He also brutally crushed the Pueblo NAs and started the province of New Mexico and founded Santa Fe (1609) |
| RobertDeLaSalle | A French explorer who lead a group through the Great Lakes region and was the first European to float down the Mississippi River (1680s). And laid claim to the "Louisiana Territory" for France |
| TreatyOfTordesillas | An agreement negotiated by the Catholic pope (1494)-- between Spain and Portugal dividing the New World between the two countries (Portuguese-- Brazil. Spanish-- the rest of Latin America) |
| Mestizos | A mixed race of people born to Spanish and NA parents |
| MoundBuilders/Mississippians | Indigenous people of the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys who built large settlements based on corn farming and constructing large mounds for protection from flooding |
| Cahokia | a large Mound Builder city near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois. Was home to bout 40,000 people (in AD 1100) and 200 years later, it was abandoned as the culture declined mysteriously |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerers of Central and South America who came in the pursuit of "Gold, gold, and glory" (the three Gs). Largely made up of second, third, and fourth sons who could not inherit wealth in Spain, and came seeking the "New World" |
| Puebloans | indigenous people of modern-day Southwestern US. They built extensive irrigation crops to support corn-based agriculture and lived in mud brick (adobe) homes |
| JointStockCompanies | predecessor of modern-day corporations, developed to gather the excess capital of the rising European middle class to help fund the settling of American colonies (ex. the Virginia Company and the Plymouth Company) |
| EncomiendaSystem | A Plantation system dominant in Spanish America where NAs were essentially enslaved under the guise of conversion to Catholicism |
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Ellingham