What You Need to Know
Vocabulary word that was used to describe exchanges between the two hemispheres. Example: Disease was spread to native populations.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
What would you call these group of people?
Cartier explores St. Lawrence River
Hudson explores Hudson River Valley
Champlain sets up fur trade in New France
Who were European explorers of North America?
This invention helped to spread ideas in Europe.
What is the printing press?
Agreed to work without pay for a landlord if the landlord paid for their passage to America.
Who were Indentured Servants?
New Englanders made a living by this.
What is at sea, fishing, ship building?
Journey the slaves took from African to America.
What is the Middle Passage?
There were the first Europeans to bring enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Who were the Spanish and Portuguese?
This put in writing a set of laws to govern the Pilgrims.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This economy was based on plantations and slavery.
What were the Southern Economy?
England viewed its North American colonies as a place where England could make money for their country.
What is an economic resource?
They sought profit and adventure through exploration and discovery.
Who were Europeans?
This region was also called the breadbasket of the colonies.
What were the middle colonies?
This was the first representative government in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses
The movement of the Puritans from England to the New England Colonies.
What was the Great Migration?
Nearly everything that was needed was produced on the plantations in this region.
What was the Southern plantations?
Spanish Conquistadors such as Pizzaro and Cortez were looking for this while exploring.
What were civilizations rich in gold? (3Gs)
These series of wars led to increased trade with Asia, prompting exploration and adventure.
What were the Crusades?
Why the Puritans and Pilgrims settled in the Americas.
What is Religious Freedom?
This job required people to supervise and manage work crews of enslaved Africans.
Who was the overseer?
Pennsylvania was established as a tolerant colony. A place for all people to practice this.
What is Religious Freedom?
The purpose of ("favorable balance of trade") mercantilism was to
What is to help increase a country's treasury (money/wealth)?
It was too difficult to grow crops in New England soil. They did this type of farming instead.
What is subsistence farming?
American colonists were ordered to import or export goods only on British ships by enforcing this law. (Act of 1660)
What are the Navigation Acts?
This offered land grants to any person who bought 50 settlers to the colony.
What was the patroon system?
These were large farms on the islands in the Caribbean where Native Americans were forced to produce cash crops such as sugar.
What were plantations?