1. APUSH UNIT 1

2. 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

3. 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

4. Continental Drift

5. 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.

7. 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?)

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

10. The Columbian Exchange

11. Explorations of Hernán Cortés

13. 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

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