The Spanish Empire
The year in which Columbus discovered the island of Hispaniola?
What is 1492?
The year in which African slaves arrived in modern day United States.
What is 1619?
What is colony expansion?
The first permanent colony established by the British in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
The name given to the transferring of goods, people, ideas, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean in the 15th-17th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The system of forced labor used by the Spanish in which Native Americans were forced to work in exchange for protection and education on Christitanity.
What is the Encomienda System?
The movement emphasizing the use of reasoning and science opposed to tradition and religion.
What is the Enlightenment?
The group of religious dissenters that established Plymouth colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
Who was John Smith?
The system of racial hierarchy in which people born in Spain were at the top and Native Americans and enslaved Africans were at the bottom.
What is the Casta or Caste System?
This event caused the British colonies to move away from indentured servitude toward African slavery.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
The trial of John Peter Zenger focused on this "culture" that developed in the colonies, allowing for widespread communication.
What is Print Culture?
What are the different reasons for establishing the Virginia Colony and the New England colonies?
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, famous for his "City on a Hill" sermon.
Who was John Winthrop?
This treaty divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The parent that determined the free/enslaved status of their child.
Who is the mother?
The movement of religious revivals, characterized by enthusiastic preaching on having a personal relationship with God.
What is the Great Awakening?
The Native American tribe that helped the British in New England survive in the early years of their colony?
Who are the Wampanoags?
The Governor of the Virginia colony in 1676.
Who is William Berkeley?
The debates between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gine de Sepulveda.
What were the Valladolid Debates?
This rebellion in 1739 was the largest slave rebellion in the British colonies.
The series of British acts passed in the 17th century intended to regulate colonial trade and boost British profits.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The 1676 conflict ending a long period of relatively peaceful relations between the Massachusetts colony and the Natives in the region.
What was King Philip's War?
The individual who founded Rhode Island colony after being exiled from Massachusetts for having radical beliefs on religious tolerance.
Who was Roger Williams?