Period 1( 1491 -1607) Flashcards
(15 cards)
What was the living situation of Native Americans in 1491?
Native Americans were living their best lives because they weren’t oppressed.
What are the American Indian Groups?
Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Mississippi River Valley, Atlantic Seaboard, Northwest, California.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
An Italian sailor who sought sponsorship from the Spanish Court of Ferdinand and Isabella to sail west for new wealth in Asian markets.
What was the significance of Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean?
Columbus found great wealth among the inhabitants of several islands, leading to European interest in the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The transfer of people, animals, plants, and disease between the East and the West.
What is feudalism?
A system where peasants lived and worked on a noble’s land in exchange for protection.
What was the Triangular Trade?
The start of the slave trade involving British, French, and Dutch colonization.
What was the Spanish approach to indigenous people?
The Spanish forced indigenous people to become Catholic, driven by the motives of Gold, God, and Glory.
What were some notable revolts against colonial rule?
Taino Revolt, Pueblo Revolt, Metacom’s War, and the Stono Rebellion.
What happened to the Roanoke Colony?
The Roanoke Colony disappeared.
What is capitalism?
An economic system based on private ownership and free exchange.
What is a joint stock company?
A limited liability organization where multiple investors pool their money to fund a venture.
What was the Encomienda System?
A colonial labor system where Spanish encomenderos enslaved native people to farm and mine in the Americas.
What is the Casta system?
A categorization of people in the Americas based on their racial ancestry, including Peninsulares, Criollos, Castas, Mulattoes, Mestizos, Africans, and Native Americans.
When was Jamestown founded?
Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607.
