Pocahantas
term for a wandering way of life, often involving hunting or herding
nomadic
the European explorer who tried to reach Asia by sailing west but "discovered" the Americas instead
Christopher Columbus
large farms usually producing cash crops which were labor-intensive
plantations
the economic focus of the Southern colonies
cash crop agriculture
the leader of the Jamestown colony
John Smith
term for a settled way of life, often involving farming
sedentary
the Viking explorer who was probably the first European to reach the Americas around A.D. 1000?
Leif Eriksson
the economic focus of French settlements in North America
fur trade
the economic focus of the Middle Colonies
grain agriculture
the first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony
John Winthrop
Native American empire conquered by Hernan Cortes in Mexico
the Aztecs
Ferdinand Magellan
the first permanent European settlement in the United States
St. Augustine
the economic focus of the New England colonies
fishing/manufacturing
the joint-stock company first authorized by England to settle in the New World
the Virginia Company
the Incas
The Spanish model of colonization was based on the exploitation (taking advantage of) this
Native American and African slave labor
grants which awarded Indian labor to wealthy colonists (primarily used on plantations for cash crops)
encomiendas
Name the three regions of English colonies.
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
the first representative assembly in the English colonies
the House of Burgesses
the Iroquois
the Roman Catholic priest who spent his life preaching against the exploitation of Native Americans
Bartolome de Las Casas
What were the global results of contact between native populations and European settlers?
Good: plants, animals, food exchanged
Bad: diseases, slaves exchanged
What two developments prompted England to consider North American colonization in the early 17th-century?
social and economic change
English Reformation
(give some details on both)
the document establishing the first self-governing society in America
the Mayflower Compact