APUSH Unit 1 Review Exam
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Conquistadors - -explored the Americas and conquered natives; include people like Desoto, Pizzaro, Cortez, and Coronado -St. Augustine, FL - -first permanent settlement made by the Spanish in the Americas -Pueblo Revolt - -Spanish begin to demand labor and tribute from the natives, 1680 the Pueblos become frustrated with this and rise in revolt, succeed for a while but are put down -Mestizos - -people that are mixed European and natives -mercantilism - -economic institution in which a country attempts to obtain as much wealth as possible for its own nation, creates their own wealth by doing anything they have to, one motive for the English to settle in the Americas -Puritan Separatists - -people who are dissatisfied with the Catholics and the
Anglican church and want to separate from it, form a group of settlers and come to America based on religious reasons, place of refuge and influence -Northern vs. Southern colonies - -both had agricultural economies , but the
south was much more heavy on it and grew only a few cash crops while the north was more diverse in their crops. in the north, life was centered around the town and family was very important (patriarchal), in the south, life was centered around the small plantation with a few slaves, there were alot less women so they had alot of power, hard-working, the plantations were usually
isolated and everything was centered there, while in the north, there were small villages with the church as the center and everyone owned a piece of land that they would hand down to their sons, there was alot more commerce, merchants, industry in the north and consumerism caused there to be visual class separations -John Smith - -comes to take care and handle the people of the failing colony of Jamestown -"headright system" - -plan to get more people, if you lived in the colony and could pay for an indentured servant to come, then you got more land for
each person, each landowner also got 100 acres of land to start with -Pocahontas - -marries John Rolph, gets kidnapped and taken to England
Questions with 100% Solutions
Conquistadors - -explored the Americas and conquered natives; include people like Desoto, Pizzaro, Cortez, and Coronado -St. Augustine, FL - -first permanent settlement made by the Spanish in the Americas -Pueblo Revolt - -Spanish begin to demand labor and tribute from the natives, 1680 the Pueblos become frustrated with this and rise in revolt, succeed for a while but are put down -Mestizos - -people that are mixed European and natives -mercantilism - -economic institution in which a country attempts to obtain as much wealth as possible for its own nation, creates their own wealth by doing anything they have to, one motive for the English to settle in the Americas -Puritan Separatists - -people who are dissatisfied with the Catholics and the
Anglican church and want to separate from it, form a group of settlers and come to America based on religious reasons, place of refuge and influence -Northern vs. Southern colonies - -both had agricultural economies , but the
south was much more heavy on it and grew only a few cash crops while the north was more diverse in their crops. in the north, life was centered around the town and family was very important (patriarchal), in the south, life was centered around the small plantation with a few slaves, there were alot less women so they had alot of power, hard-working, the plantations were usually
isolated and everything was centered there, while in the north, there were small villages with the church as the center and everyone owned a piece of land that they would hand down to their sons, there was alot more commerce, merchants, industry in the north and consumerism caused there to be visual class separations -John Smith - -comes to take care and handle the people of the failing colony of Jamestown -"headright system" - -plan to get more people, if you lived in the colony and could pay for an indentured servant to come, then you got more land for
each person, each landowner also got 100 acres of land to start with -Pocahontas - -marries John Rolph, gets kidnapped and taken to England
