Vocabulary
This term describes the treatment of people as property.
What is slavery?
Indigenous Peoples in the Great Plains region relied on this animal for food, shelter, and clothing.
What are bison/buffalo?
This Italian explorer landed in the Americas and mistakenly believed he had reached the East Indies. He claimed the land he found for Spain.
Who was Christopher Colombus?
This leader of Jamestown reportedly declared that, "He who shall not work shall not eat." When he was injured in a gunpowder accident, he had to return to England to recover.
Who was John Smith?
Colonists grew these crops with the primary goal of making money. (Provide at least 3 examples)
What are indigo, rice, tobacco, and cotton?
This term describes a system of government in which people have the power to rule themselves, often through elected representatives.
What is a democracy?
This Indigenous woman helped the colonists in Jamestown survive. She was later kidnapped by the English and coerced into adopting many aspects of European culture.
Who was Pocahontas?
This Spanish explorer led one of the first Spanish expeditions to Florida. He was seeking a legendary fountain of youth.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
This man established the colony of Georgia as a refuge for English debtors.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
In the early colonies, formal education was available almost exclusively in this colonial region.
Where is New England?
This was a document issued by the king granting permission to establish a colony and outlined the boundaries and government of the colony.
What is a charter?
These three crops, sometimes known as the "three sisters" were an important source of food for many Indigenous Peoples.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
These men were Spanish soldiers who accompanied ship captains to the Americas. They took land and resources from the the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Peru, usually by violent means.
Who were the conquistadors?
These two men were the most important leading figures of the Great Awakening. (Name at least one.)
Who were Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
This European disease wiped out entire Indigenous populations.
What is Smallpox?
French fur trappers called themselves by this name.
Who were coureurs de bois? (or "wood runners")
This Indigenous tribe was one of the 5 "civilized" tribes. Sequoyah developed a system of writing for this tribe's language.
Who are the Cherokee?
This European nation claimed much of the land that is now Canada.
Where is France?
This preacher established the colony of Providence (part of Rhode Island) after being banished from Massachusetts.
Who was Rodger Williams?
These people agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for passage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who were indentured servants?
Under this economic system, nations sought to maximize exports, minimize imports, and possess as much gold and silver as possible.
What was mercantilism?
This group of Indigenous people established a powerful empire in what is now Mexico. This empire was overthrown by the conquistador Hernan Cortes.
Who were the Aztecs?
This early English colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh disappeared without a trace, and the fate of the colonists remains a mystery.
What was the Roanoke Colony?
Peter Stuyvesant, an important figure in the history of New York, was know by this nickname.
Who was Peg Leg Pete?
This document signed by King John in 1295 was an important predecessor to some of the United State's most important documents and had a great influence on the ideas English colonists had about their rights as English citizens.
What is the Magna Carta?