APUSH-WAY

• The Great Awakening also contributed to the development of American democracy by promoting individualism and self-expression.
• Columbian Exchange: transfer of goods


  diseases ideas and people from the Americas to Europe and
• Maritime Advancements: astrolabe


  caravel Prince Henry the Navigator’s School of Navigation
• Spanish Colonization
• • Colonization was focused in South America
• Caribbean


  Mexico FL and SW region of N.
• • Focus was on converting the natives to
• Christianity


  specifically Catholicism
• o Encomienda System: Spanish would
• enslave natives in order to use them to
• mine minerals and to work plantation-
• based agriculture with the end goal to
• convert them
• • Caste-like system was put into place in order to
• keep social order among people
• o Peninsulares: plantation owners that own
• o Creoles: small farm owners


  owned land
• few slaves
• o Mestizos / Mulattoes: landless whites
• indentured servants
• o Native Americas / African Slaves: slaves
• • First city in North America was St. Augustine


  FL
• French Colonization
• • Focused on the Fur Trade and interactions with
• the Iroquois natives
• • Colonize along the St. Lawrence River (AKA Canada)
• English Colonization
• • Joint-Stock Companies: focused on making money in the colonies – initially looking for gold
• • Roanoke Colony: founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587


  but was a failure due to the mysterious
• ending of the colony. Once Raleigh returned

  everyone had disappeared.
• • Jamestown: King James I approved the founding of the colony


  but once the crew arrived in May
• 1607


  John Smith took over as the leader once the colony started to struggle during the winter.
• o Struggles include:
• § horrible location


  lack of clean water problems with diseases spread by
• mosquitoes


  severe drought and “lazy” colonists and unprepared for manual labor
• o Relationship with the Powhatan Confederacy
• § Chief Powhatan wanted to consolidate his power and conquer neighboring tribes so
• he thought that the colonists of Jamestown could help him do it due to their
• resources: traded food for guns and knives.
• § Eventually


  the relationship broke down because of the marriage between