Chapter 1
What was the name of the land bridge that spanned from Asia to North America, which allowed early Native Americans to migrate to the continent?
Beringia or the Bering Strait Land Bridge
What was the name for the spread of ideas, people, diseases, etc. across the Atlantic from Europe and Africa to the Americas?
Columbian Exchange
What was the name for the transit across the Atlantic Ocean for millions of African slaves being taken to the Americas?
Middle Passage
What were the "Three Sisters?"
Corn, Beans, Squash
What settlement experienced a namesake witch trial in 1692?
Salem
What was the name for the centuries long conflict where Christian kingdoms in Spain fought against Muslim ones for control of the Iberian peninsula?
Reconquista
Roanoke, the famous failed company and first attempt by the English to set up a colony in North America, was on an island off the coast of what U.S. State?
North Carolina
What was the Barricado?
The giant wall that split the slave ship in two which separated males from females
Quakers
During what rebellion did Jamestown nearly burn to the ground following a civil war between Jamestown resident and rebels?
Bacon's Rebellion
What Spanish Conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
The Puritans founded what colony in New England?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What large Native American conflict saw Native Americans fight against New England colonists, and was led by a namesake Native American leader?
King Phillip's War or Metacom's War
What was the first permanent settlement in North America for the English?
Jamestown
Roger Williams founded what colony in New England after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Rhode Island
What was the name of the forced system of labor in which Spaniards would extract forced labor from the Native Americans?
Encomienda System
Portugal introduced what new and improved trading ship that made travel faster and could carry more cargo?
Caravel
What colony was founded by English Catholics?
Maryland
What Spanish Conquistador conquered the Inca Empire in South America?
Francisco Pizarro
What was the name for the network of churches that the Spanish set up in California and the American Southwest?
Mission system
What King and Queen of Spain sent Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic to find riches?
Ferdinand and Isabella
What was the name of the French merchants who came to North America and lived and hunted in the wilderness, mainly to trap and sell furs?
Voyageurs
What did the 1662 Virginia Slave law state?
Children born to slave mothers were considered slaves at birth. (Slavery for life)
What person introduced Tobacco to the Jamestown colony?
Thomas Hooker founded what colony in New England?
Connecticut