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Chapters 1-7 Eric Foner - Give Me Liberty:
3rd Edition Review
Maize - answer✔Technical or chiefly British term for corn
Tenochtitlán - answer✔The Captial city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the
early 1500s
Cahokia - answer✔The location where Mississippian culture thrived before European exploreres
landed in the Americas
Iroquois - answer✔A member of a former confeceracy of North American Indian peoples
originally comprised of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples
Zheng He - answer✔Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during
China's early Ming dynasty
Caravel - answer✔A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of teh 15th-17th centuries
Factories - answer✔Fortified trading posts owned by the Portuguese
Reconquista - answer✔The series of military campaigns by which Christian armies reclaimed
control of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors
Columbian Exchange - answer✔The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human
populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th
centuries
Peninsulares - answer✔A Spaniard born in Spain but lived in Mexico or the Philippines
Mestizos - answer✔A man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American
Indian
Encomienda System - answer✔The legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define
the status of the Indian population in its American colonies
Black Legend - answer✔An alleged style of tendentious, subjective historical writing or
propaganda demonizing Spain, its people and its culture in an intentional attempt to damage its
reputation
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Pueblo Revolt - answer✔An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the
Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico
Popé - answer✔The main organizer of an uprising that aimed to drive the Spanish from teh
colony and restore the Indians' traditional autonomy
Huguenots - answer✔A French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries; suffered severe persecution
at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France
Métis - answer✔A person of mixed American Indian and Euro-American ancestry, in particular
one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Métis nation in
the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers
Patroons - answer✔A person given land and granted certain manorial privileges under the former
Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey
Wampum - answer✔A quantity of small cylindrical beads made by North American Indians from
quahog shells, strung together and worn as a decorative belt or other decoration or used as
money
Christopher Columbus - answer✔1492: Caribbean and Central America
John Cabot - answer✔1497: Newfoundland
Amerigo Vespucci - answer✔1499-1502: Coast of Brazil, Gulf of Mexico
Pedro Cabral - answer✔1500: South America (Brazil)
Juan Ponce de León - answer✔1513: Florida
Ferdinand Magellan - answer✔1519-1522: Sailed around the world
Hernando de Soto - answer✔1539-1541: American Southwest
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado - answer✔1540-1541: American Southwest
Juan Oñate - answer✔1598: American Southwest
Nicolás de Ovando - answer✔1502: Hispaniola
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - answer✔1513: Panama Isthmus
Francisco Pizarro - answer✔1530s: Peru
Samuel de Champlain - answer✔1608: Canada and Quebec
Henry Hudson - answer✔1609: Hudson River and New York
Chapters 1-7 Eric Foner - Give Me Liberty:
3rd Edition Review
Maize - answer✔Technical or chiefly British term for corn
Tenochtitlán - answer✔The Captial city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the
early 1500s
Cahokia - answer✔The location where Mississippian culture thrived before European exploreres
landed in the Americas
Iroquois - answer✔A member of a former confeceracy of North American Indian peoples
originally comprised of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples
Zheng He - answer✔Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during
China's early Ming dynasty
Caravel - answer✔A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of teh 15th-17th centuries
Factories - answer✔Fortified trading posts owned by the Portuguese
Reconquista - answer✔The series of military campaigns by which Christian armies reclaimed
control of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors
Columbian Exchange - answer✔The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human
populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th
centuries
Peninsulares - answer✔A Spaniard born in Spain but lived in Mexico or the Philippines
Mestizos - answer✔A man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American
Indian
Encomienda System - answer✔The legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define
the status of the Indian population in its American colonies
Black Legend - answer✔An alleged style of tendentious, subjective historical writing or
propaganda demonizing Spain, its people and its culture in an intentional attempt to damage its
reputation
, ©THEBRIGHTSTARS 2024/2025
Pueblo Revolt - answer✔An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the
Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico
Popé - answer✔The main organizer of an uprising that aimed to drive the Spanish from teh
colony and restore the Indians' traditional autonomy
Huguenots - answer✔A French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries; suffered severe persecution
at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France
Métis - answer✔A person of mixed American Indian and Euro-American ancestry, in particular
one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Métis nation in
the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers
Patroons - answer✔A person given land and granted certain manorial privileges under the former
Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey
Wampum - answer✔A quantity of small cylindrical beads made by North American Indians from
quahog shells, strung together and worn as a decorative belt or other decoration or used as
money
Christopher Columbus - answer✔1492: Caribbean and Central America
John Cabot - answer✔1497: Newfoundland
Amerigo Vespucci - answer✔1499-1502: Coast of Brazil, Gulf of Mexico
Pedro Cabral - answer✔1500: South America (Brazil)
Juan Ponce de León - answer✔1513: Florida
Ferdinand Magellan - answer✔1519-1522: Sailed around the world
Hernando de Soto - answer✔1539-1541: American Southwest
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado - answer✔1540-1541: American Southwest
Juan Oñate - answer✔1598: American Southwest
Nicolás de Ovando - answer✔1502: Hispaniola
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - answer✔1513: Panama Isthmus
Francisco Pizarro - answer✔1530s: Peru
Samuel de Champlain - answer✔1608: Canada and Quebec
Henry Hudson - answer✔1609: Hudson River and New York
