APUSH UNIT 1 1491-1607

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

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

Continental Drift

Routes of the First Americans The first migrants to the Americas’ left the Far East/Siberia area and over 1000 years migrated over the Bering Straits land bridge during the last ice age and eventually travelled all the way to S.America.

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 Mariner’s compass invented (Arabs?)

Portugal asks for extra 200 miles West and receives what becomes Brazil.

The Columbian Exchange

Explorations of Hernán Cortés

Why England colonized Americas late Initially allied with Spain so didn’t 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

KEY FACTORS FOR ENGLAND’S COLONIZATION Defeat of Spain Enclosure Acts Primogeniture Laws Joint-Stock Companies