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Section1- Spain Claims an Empire
Section 2-- European Competition in North America
Section 3-- The Spanish and Native Americans
Section 4-- Beginnings of Slavery in the Americas
Vocab. Terms
100
soldiers who explored the Americas and claimed them for Spain.
What is conquistadors
100
One goal of European explorers in the 1500s was to find this-- a water route through North America to Asia
What is the Northwest Passage?
100
A grant of Native American labor. The Spanish forced Native Americans to work on plantations.
What is encomiendas?
100
Slavery began to change with the rise of these plantations?
What is sugar plantations?
100
economic system that increased money in a country's treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade
What is mercantilism?
200
A leading conquistador who led a Spanish army into an Aztec province and stabled Spanish rule in Mexico.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
This explorer founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
200
To convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What is the goal of missions in Spanish colonial society?
200
1. They were immune to European diseases 2. They had no friends or family 3. They were a source of cheap labor 4. They had prior farm experience
What are the reasons Africans were enslaved by Spain and Portugal?
200
person sent by the Church to convert Native Americans to Christianity
What is a missionary?
300
conquistador who led the Spanish into Peru and helped to destroy the Inca Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro
300
The fur-trading post at Quebec became the first permanent settlement for this country.
What is France?
300
People of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. Right below Creoles in Spanish-American society.
Who are the mestizos?
300
The brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
300
First permanent Dutch colony in North America
What is New Netherland?
400
1. made alliances with their enemies 2. spread of European diseases killed millions of Native Americans 3. over time, Spanish acted brutally toward the Native Americans under their control
What are the 3 major reasons for the fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires?
400
New Netherland was what type of colony?
What is Dutch?
400
The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres. How corn and potatoes were brought to Europe.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
400
These regulated the Spanish treatment of slaves
What are the Slave Codes?
400
large farm that raises cash crops
What is a plantation?
500
Portugal and Spain's agreement that allowed Portugal to claim much of eastern South America
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
Result of the English victory over the Spanish Armada.
What is the world saw that Spain could be beaten?
500
Catholic priest whose efforts led the Spanish king to order the gradual freeing of enslaved Native Americans
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
500
Africans brought with them a strong artistic heritage of dance, music and storytelling.
What are ways African culture shaped life in the Americas?
500
large farm or estate
What is a hacienda?