Events
The transfer of plants, animals, food, diseases, populations, and culture between America and the Old World
The Colombian exchange
An Italian navigator/explorer who "discovered" the new world, whilst looking for a western passage to Asia
Christopher Colombus
Colonies exist to benefit their mother country
Mercantilism
One of the major English religions in the colonies, mostly in Massachusetts
Puritans
A colony where colonists hoped catholics and puritans could live in peace
Maryland
The first time the Indians successfully revolted against the Spanish, driving Spanish out of their territory
The Pueblo Revolt
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs, causing the fall of the Aztec empire and conquered Mexico
Hernando Cortes
A system of forced, cheap labor used by the Spanish, in “return” they gained protection and teachings of Christianity
The Encomienda System
An idea formed to be open to other Christian religions in Maryland
Religious tolerance
the location where the pueblo revolt took place (as a state)
New Mexico
An armed rebellion in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon's rebellion
A Spanish friar who spoke out against the mistreatment of Natives and the Encomienda system
Bartolomé de Las Casa
The three reasons/motivations for European Colonization of the “New World”
God, Glory, and Gold
People who would would disagree with the Anglican church; mostly catholics
Dissenters
Where Columbus originally arrived in the new world
The Bahamas
The signing of the document of the Plymouth Colony, by the male passengers of the Mayflower
The Mayflower Compact
was governor, ran a corrupt regime in alliance with wealthy tobacco planters which led to Bacon's rebellion
William Berkeley
An English joint-stock company which allowed the colonization of the North American Coast
The Virginia Company
A break off of the regular english Christian church founded by King Henry VIII
Anglican Church
The largest Native American city in pre-columbian times; located in what is now Mexico
Tenochtitlan
The Treaty stating the division of the New World signed by Spain and Portugal
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
A minister who was one of the first to criticize Massachusetts on the basis of religious toleration.
Roger Williams
European who signed a contract to work without wages in exchange of getting passage overseas to the New World
Indentured Servants
Key values and aspects of Native American religion, defined how they lived
Animism & Nature
The colony which settled in North Carolina in 1587, but mysteriously disappeared in 1590
Roanoke colony