Native Americans
This major city was one of the largest in the world at its time, and the pinnacle of Mississippian culture.
Cahokia
This European colonizing country used a mission system in order to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.
Spain
This group of people surrendered several years of hard labor in exchange for passage to colonies like Jamestown.
Indentured Servants
This figure is the namesake for the bloodiest per capita war in American history.
Metacomet / King Philip
English settlement in the colonies prior to 1754 was mostly contained by this massive mountain range to the west.
Appalachian Mountains
According to this Eastern Woodlands peoples' folklore, Hiawatha and "Peacemaker" worked together to unite several tribes and curb conflict by creating an alliance.
Iroquois Nation / Haudenosaunee Confederacy
This company, which originated in the Netherlands, was one of the earliest joint-stock companies involved in colonizing the Americas.
Dutch West India Company
This term is used to describe a form of Christianity in which followers organize into local self-governing church communities.
Congregationalism
This figure strongly protested the treatment of indigenous peoples by the conquistadors.
Bartolome de las Casas
Virginia and Maryland surround this estuary (body of water).
Chesapeake Bay
Name one Native American tribe based in the Great Plains.
Ex: Pawnee, Lakota Sioux, Comanche, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, and Arapaho
Name the two large indigenous empires that were conquered by the Spaniards in the 1500s, and name their capitals.
Aztec (Tenochtitlan), Inca (Cuzco)
Enslaved Africans cultivating rice would have likely labored under this system.
Task System
This figure was kicked out of Massachusetts for her dissenting views on the Puritans, and was instrumental in founding the Rhode Island colony.
Anne Hutchinson
This bygone geographical feature was critical in the arrival of humans into the Americas between 15,000-20,000 years ago.
Bering Land Bridge
This was one of the first major wars fought between Native Americans and the inhabitants of the New England colonies between 1636-1637.
Pequot Wars
This fast, 15th-century ship with triangular sails was instrumental in seafaring during the Age of Exploration.
Caravel
Name the first British colony in North America.
Roanoke
This one-named figure led the largest slave revolt in the British colonies.
Jimmy (or Cato)
This body of water, initially controlled by France and later by Britain, facilitated one of the largest fur-trading networks in the world. It is located in present-day Canada.
Hudson Bay
This cave dwelling complex was inhabited by the Ancestral Puebloans until it declined around 1150 due to prolonged drought.
Chaco Canyon
Prior to their arrival in the Americas, the Spanish colonized this territory in West Africa home to the Guanche peoples, where they established plantations.
Canary Islands
Name the three charter colonies that were allowed to mostly self-govern without direct interference from the Crown.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
This figure was an itinerant preacher whose sermons increased religious zeal during the First Great Awakening.
George Whitefield
This geographical feature, in which watersheds flow into lakes rather than into the ocean, encompasses Utah, Nevada, and parts of California and Oregon.
Great Basin