Native Americans
This Mississippian city near present-day St. Louis was the largest in North America north of Mexico, famous for its giant earthen mounds.
What is Cahokia?
In 1492, this Italian sailor crossed the Atlantic looking for a western route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Fertile soil and wheat exports earned this region (NY, NJ, PA, DE) the nickname "breadbasket colonies."
What are the Middle Colonies?
The brutal ocean voyage that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This 1700s intellectual movement stressed reason, science, and natural law over tradition.
What is the Enlightenment?
Myth: Europeans defeated Native Americans mainly through war. In reality, this was the biggest killer of Native peoples.
What is diseases?
A positive portrayal of Columbus credits him with starting this transfer of plants, animals, and ideas between the hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This religious group settled Massachusetts Bay hoping to build a model Christian "city upon a hill."
What is the Puritans?
This trade route linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas, exchanging manufactured goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This English thinker argued all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
Myth: The Americas were an empty, untouched land before 1492. What was actually true?
Lots of Native American tribes lived there.
A negative portrayal of Christopher Columbus involves what happening to Native Americans as a result of his exploration?
Dying or being enslaved
Plantations growing tobacco, rice, and indigo with enslaved labor defined the economy of this region.
What is the Southern colonies?
Which region of colonies had the most African slaves?
What is the Southern colonies?
This French thinker argued government power should be separated into three branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
Myth: all Native Americans were basically the same. In reality, there were hundreds of distinct nations speaking hundreds of these.
What is languages?
What is more exports than imports.?
This region of colonies is known for shipbuilding and being very strict about religion, other religions besides Puritan were not welcomed.
What is the New England colonies?
What is one way that enslaved Africans displayed cultural resilience in the New World?
What is maintained families, formed the Gullah language, continued to practice their religions, or blend their religions?
In The Social Contract, this thinker argued government should follow the "general will" of the people.
Who is Rousseau?
Many Native American tribes had elements of this in their religions.
What is animism or female-centered worship or worshipping multiple gods.
These laws were passed to restrict colonists from doing business with other countries besides Britain.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This region of colonies was religiously tolerant and had the Quaker religion in it.
What are the Middle colonies?
Why did plantation farmers turn to African slaves rather than indentured servants?
Many people who would have become indentured servants stopped coming to the Americas, Africans were used to the weather and knew the land, had farmed before.
This traveling English preacher drew huge outdoor crowds with emotional sermons during the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?