APUSH Summer Assignment
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Christopher Columbus: A skilled Italian seafarer that persuaded the Spanish Monarchs to give him three tiny ships in order for him to make his journey to the “New World”.
Columbian Exchange: A trade in international commerce that traded things from the New World and the Old World.
Conquistadores: The Conquistadores were the first ones to enter the “New World”. Columbus was one of the Conquistadores. “black legend”: It is a perception that Spanish Conquistadors murdered and killed many Indians. They also stole many things such as their riches and gave them small pox.
Hernan Cortes: The Spanish Conquistador who destroyed the people of the Aztec land and also defeated Mexico.
Treaty of Tordesillas: This treaty put
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Iroquois Confederacy: The league of many Indian tribes that was currently in the Northeast with other people that they did not experience with.
Squatter: A person that would settle down on other properties of land without any rights to do so.
Yeoman: A farmer that owns a tiny estate of land. So basically more like a middle-class farmer.
Pilgrims: A group of people that was known as the English Puritans. They found the Plymouth colony as they were in the “New World”.
Separatists: People that wanted to have an individual church for the two different groups. Can also be said as Pilgrims.
Protestant Reformation: religious movement that started as an attempt to fix the Roman Catholic Church which became the creation of Protestant Churches.
Mayflower Compact: The very first agreement for the individual government in America. The men from the Pilgrim group signed the Mayflower Compact.
Puritans: a group that was very religious who wanted to change the Church of England to purify it. They arrived to America because they wanted to plant a firm religious land as a new beginning.
Enclosure: Basically an act of closing something inside from another thing that can affect
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The Shaping of North America - Before North America even existed, there was Pangea, when the Earth only had one huge land mass.
- The continuous shifting of the tectonic plates in the Earth kept moving resulting in the splitting Pangea.
- After many years, it formed to the Earth that we now know today.
- By about 10 million years ago, nature made the basic geological shape of North America along with all of the other continents.
Peopling the Americas
- The Ice Age was responsible for most of the shaping of North America and also contributed to the origins of the continent’s human history.
- As the sea level decreased, it made a bridge that linked Eurasia with North America making the locals in Eurasia to migrate downward to North America.
- Many other races such as the Incas in Peru, the Mayans, and the Aztecs in Mexico made their way across the bridge migrating.
The Earliest Americans
- Around 5000 B.C., hunter-gatherers in the highland Mexico made a wild grass that could support many farm necessities such as the staple crop of corn.
- The corn was basically their staff of life and the foundation of the complex, large scale for the Aztecans.
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