AGE OF EXPLORATION
This type of factor motivated Europeans who wanted to escape persecution.
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What is a religious factor?
This person started the Jamestown colony.
Who is John Smith?
Ancient Greece had this type of government where legislative bodies included all citizens.
What is direct democracy?
An African slave trade developed when plantation owners needed a new labor source after this happened to Native Americans.
What is large numbers died from diseases?
The French established this settlement in 1714 as a trading post.
What is Natchitoches?
This was the biggest challenge for explorers trying to find the Northwest Passage.
What are cold weather and icy waters?
This happened to many Jamestown colonists during the winter of 1609-1610.
What is they died?
Ancient Rome had this type of government with Senate and assemblies as legislative bodies.
What is representative government?
The French government passed this law in 1724 to control the lives of free and enslaved African people
What is the Code Noir?
This group responded to the French settlement by establishing missions around it
Who are Spanish colonists?
Europeans brought these to North America that changed how Native Americans farmed, hunted, and fought
What are technological advancements?
This person arrived with supplies in 1610 and helped the colony succeed by growing a cash crop.
Who is John Rolfe
These three reasons explain why wealthy colonial landowners shaped the U.S. government foundation.
What are slave labor gave them free time to meet, they were usually the only people allowed to vote, and they elected themselves to government positions?
These four consequences resulted from importing enslaved people to the Americas.
What are greater profits and plantation system growth, forced relocation of millions of Africans, great pain and death for millions, and centuries of discrimination and prejudice?
During Spanish rule, this replaced the Superior Council and allowed many Creoles to join.
What is the cabildo?
This European item was far superior to Native American versions and helped Europeans conquer Native people
What are weapons?
This crop helped John Rolfe make Jamestown successful.
What is tobacco?
The delegates made this decision at the Constitutional Convention instead of simply revising the Articles of Confederation.
What is create a new document (the Constitution)?
These four statements accurately describe African Americans' role in the Revolutionary War.
What are they fought on both sides, contributed to Continental Army success, both free and enslaved people fought on both sides, and Britain promised freedom to enslaved people who fought for them
These four groups migrated to Louisiana: those forced from Nova Scotia, refugees from a slave revolt, people offered land grants, and those escaping locusts and drought.
Who are Acadians, Haitians, Spanish, and Isleños?
These three types of factors motivated European exploration: escaping persecution, spreading power and influence, and finding new natural resources to make goods.
What are religious, political, and economic factors?
When the animal population declined, this happened to fur supply, which worsened competition between France and England and hurt Native American relationships with European settlers
What is the supply became limited?
The colonists created a weak central government under the Articles of Confederation to avoid this, but it made the government ineffective for running the country, leading delegates to create a new document at the Constitutional Convention.
What is avoiding a government with a strong, tyrannical leader?
This woman carried water to soldiers and took her husband's place as a cannon loader when wounded, while another disguised herself as a man to serve in the Continental Army, and a third was asked to create the first American flag.
Who are Mary Ludwig-Hays, Deborah Sampson, and Betsy Ross?
The cabildo replaced the Superior Council established by the French, allowed many Creoles to join, and focused on local matters while Spanish officials focused on judicial matters and military concerns.
What is the Spanish administrative system during colonial Louisiana?