Native American Civilizations
A group of people who share a government, culture, traditions, and way of life.
What is a civilization?
The explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 under the Spanish flag.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The year and colony where the English established their first permanent settlement in North America.
What are 1607 and Jamestown?
The colony founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth Colony?
The founder of Pennsylvania, who established it as a place for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
A system in which people exchange goods and services.
What is trade?
The three motivations for exploration
What are the three Gs?
This cash crop helped Jamestown become economically successful
What is tobacco?
The religious group that founded Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a community based on its beliefs.
Who are the Puritans?
The colony founded partly as a refuge for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This practice allowed many Native American communities to grow crops and establish permanent settlements.
What is agriculture?
A navigation tool that helped sailors determine direction at sea.
What is a compass?
Virginia's elected representative assembly, established in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Local gatherings where community members discussed and voted on town issues.
What are town meetings?
These two colonies became known for growing rice and indigo.
What are South Carolina and Georgia?
Climate, landscapes, and natural resources caused Native American groups to develop these.
What are different regional lifestyles?
European nations competed to gain wealth, control trade routes, spread religion, and increase this.
What is national power?
A person who agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage or other support.
What is an indentured servant?
Two important industries in the New England colonial economy.
What are fishing and shipbuilding?
The colony founded in 1733 as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
Two ways Native American societies organized their communities, leadership, or spiritual lives
councils, chiefs, confederacies, ceremonies, and oral traditions.
The exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This system expanded as plantation owners sought labor for tobacco farming, and colonial laws made enslavement permanent and hereditary.
What is racial slavery?
These strongly influenced laws, education, community rules, and daily life in many New England colonies.
What are religious beliefs?
One major way European settlement and territorial claims affected Native American peoples.
What is loss of ancestral lands, displacement, warfare, disease, or disrupted trade?