NATIVE SOCIETIES
This civilization built a powerful empire centered around Tenochtitlan in present-day Mexico.
What is the Aztec Empire?
In 1492, this explorer sailed west across the Atlantic seeking a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This colony was established by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
This 1739 uprising was one of the largest slave rebellions in colonial British North America.
Stono Rebellion
Unlike many Great Plains societies after European contact, these peoples lived in permanent settlements and relied heavily on agriculture along the Mississippi River.
Who are the Mississippians?
This exchange transferred crops, animals, diseases, and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a refuge for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This document established a form of self-government among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Mayflower Compact
This Puritan leader founded Massachusetts Bay and described the colony as a model Christian community.
Who is John Winthrop?
The development of this crop allowed many Native American societies to support larger populations and develop more complex societies.
What is maize/corn?
The introduction of horses by Europeans dramatically changed the lives of many Native societies, particularly those living in this region.
What are the Great Plains?
This economic system used by the Spanish relied on forced Indigenous labor in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
This system granted large amounts of land to settlers in exchange for bringing laborers to the colonies.
What is the headright system?
This Puritan dissenter argued that Massachusetts should separate church and state and respect religious freedom.
Roger Williams
This Pueblo civilization built large settlements and irrigation systems in the present-day American Southwest.
Who are the Pueblo Tribe
This disease devastated Native American populations because Indigenous peoples had little prior exposure or immunity to it.
What is smallpox?
This cash crop helped make the Chesapeake colonies economically successful and contributed to the growth of plantation slavery.
What is tobacco?
This 1676 uprising demonstrated tensions between wealthy colonial elites, poor farmers, indentured servants, and Native Americans in Virginia.
Bacon's Rebellion
This movement in the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional religious experiences and contributed to the growth of evangelical Christianity.
The First Great Awakening
Unlike the Spanish, French, and English, many Native American societies organized political and economic life around this concept rather than private land ownership in the European sense.
What is communal/shared land?
European colonization of the Americas produced population growth in Europe partly because of the introduction of these American crops. Name two.
What are corn, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, squash, etc.?
Why did slavery develop differently in the Chesapeake and New England colonies?
What is that the Chesapeake developed plantation agriculture and relied increasingly on enslaved labor, while New England's economy was more diversified and less dependent on plantation agriculture?
Bacon's Rebellion helped encourage Virginia elites to increasingly rely on this labor system instead of indentured servants.
What is racialized African slavery?
Explain one way the Great Awakening challenged traditional authority in colonial America.
It encouraged ordinary people to question established churches and ministers and emphasized personal religious experience over traditional religious authority.