APUSH Unit 1 Vocab

3. People of mixed European and African ancestry.
4. Major Mississippian city near present-day St. Louis, built mysterious mounds.
5. trade Trade in animal pelts, especially beaver, mostly run by the French.
6. Cash crop grown in the Americas using forced labor.
8. Exchange The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
10. Native peoples of the Southwest who built settled communities, often using adobe structures.
14. Region including present-day Mexico and Central America.
15. system Spanish labor system granting colonists control over Native labor and tribute.
16. system Spanish colonial racial hierarchy based on ancestry and birthplace.
17. Spanish conquerors who claimed land and wealth in the Americas.
21. Confederacy Alliance of several Native nations in the Northeast.
22. First permanent English settlement in North America.
25. Economic system where colonies exist to enrich the mother country.

1. Columbus Italian explorer sailing for Spain who reached the Caribbean in 1492.
2. Native groups in eastern North America sharing related languages and cultural patterns.
7. Plains Grassland region in central North America.
9. Larege draft animals brought by Europeans to the Americas.
11. Large-scale farming of cash crops using forced labor.
12. Branch of Christianity spread by Spain and Portugal in the Americas.
13. People of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry.
18. American societies Diverse Indigenous communities living in North America before European arrival.
19. las Casas Spanish priest who criticized the abuse of Native peoples (last name only).
20. Failed English colony in present-day North Carolina.
23. The farming of this crop, first developed in Mesoamerica and later spread northward, used by most native cultures.
24. Deadly disease brought from Europe to the Americas.