Stephen Armstrong - AP U. S. History Flashcards

Stephen Armstrong

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Introduction

McGraw-Hills 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History Flashcards is designed to provide a portable way for you to build your knowledge of U.S. history in preparation for the AP exam. It contains 600 terms and their definitions that coincide with the chapter chronology in 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History.

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Advanced and wealthy civilization was centered in the Andes mountain region of South America

Aided by smallpox, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro conquered the Incas in 1533

Instrument that enabled navigators to calculate their latitude using the sun and stars

Allowed more accuracy in plotting routes during the Age of Discovery

Advanced Native American society located in central Mexico

Conquered in 1521 by the Spanish conquistador Hernn Cortz

Their defeat was hastened by smallpox brought to Mexico by the Spanish

European attempts to capture the Holy Land in the Middle Ages

Europeans acquired an appreciation of the economic benefits of overseas expansion and slavery

Early societies that existed not by farming but by moving from place to place and gathering food as they went

Some early Native American tribes in northern New England lived as hunter-gatherers

Protestants in France, who by the 1630s were believers in Calvinism

Few Huguenots ended up settling in the Americas, as French officials feared they would disrupt the unity of colonial settlements

Catholic missionary group that established settlements in Florida, New Mexico, Paraguay, and several areas within French territory in North America

Were organized with military precision and order

Catholic missionaries who established settlements in the late 1500s in what is now the southwestern United States

At their missions Christian conversion was encouraged, but Native Americans were used as virtual slaves

Rebellions at the missions began in 1598

Religious dissidents who left England for America to establish a purer church

Settled Plymouth Colony in 1620 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630

Were heavily influenced by John Calvin and his concept of predestination

Also called the Anglican Church

Protestant state church established by King Henry VIII

Religious radicals desired a purer church than was allowed by monarchs in the early 17th century, causing some to leave for the Americas

Protestant faith that preached salvation by faith alone and predestination

The desire of Calvinists in England to create a pure church was only partly successful, so many Calvinist Puritans went to the New World starting in 1620

Calvinist Protestants who did not believe that the Church of England could be purified and hence chose to separate from it