APUSH UNIT 1

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APUSH UNIT 1

• 1491-1607

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Key Themes for Unit 1

• Three worlds collide
• American Indian Networks
• Spanish Mission Settlements
• Columbian Exchange
• Encomienda System
• European Explorers and the three Gs.
• Native Americans are disorganized and ill
  equipped to fight off the Europeans

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Key Terms C/F for Unit 1

• Great Basin/ Great Plains
• Mississippi River Valley
• Atlantic Seaboard
• New World
• Christianity
• Feudalism
• Capitalism
• Joint Stock Companies
• Native Americans (American Indians)
• West African Slave Trade
• Africans

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Continental Drift
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Routes of the First Americans
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Columbus Comes upon a New World

• Events leading up to discovery of New World
• Europeans wanted products from Asia
• Africa provides cheap slave labor
• Portuguese develop long-range voyages
• Spain modern nation-state takes shape
• Renaissance began in 1300s
• Printing presses (1450) spread knowledge
• Mariners compass invented (Arabs?)

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The Columbian Exchange
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Explorations of Hernán Cortés
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• Why England colonized Americas late
• Initially allied with Spain so didnt want to
  compete
• Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church,
  setting off decades-long religious conflict in
  the nation
• Famous sea dog pirates (Sir Francis Drake)
• Early 1600s 3 European powers make claims in 3
  different parts of North America
• 1607 English at Jamestown
• 1608 French at Quebec
• 1610 Spanish at Santa Fe

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KEY FACTORS FOR ENGLANDS COLONIZATION

1. Defeat of Spain
2. Enclosure Acts
3. Primogeniture Laws
4. Joint-Stock Companies

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