The World Before 1500
Men and women who migrated from Asia to America 15,000-35,000 years ago by crossing a land bridge
Who are "The First Americans"
The ruler of the Spanish empires in America who ruled in the kings name
What is a Viceroy
The first colony attempt and lost colony
What is Roanoke Island
The most populated colony, very wealthy and had whaling, fishing and shipping
What is the New England colony
The practice of one person being owned by another
What is Slavery
The first Empires in the Americas
What are the Aztec and the Inca
People in the Spanish colonies that were mixed Spanish and Native American
What are Mestizos
Soldier and adventurer that took over Jamestown to save it
Who is John Smith
All goods have to be carried on english ships, products grown in colonies could only be sold to England, European imports had to pass through English ports
What are the Navigation acts
Contract from a king giving permission to start a colony
What is a Charter
Less complex northern societies that included the Inuit, Pueblo and Iroquois people
Who are Native North Americans
Forced Native American labor, Spanish did this as a collection for defeating the Natives
What are Encomiendas
Jamestown colonists ate rodents and snakes during this. Relief ships had to be sent in.
What is the Starving Time
Exchange of goods with Europe, involved trading humans for things like rum, sugar and molasses, many slaves traveled in this
What is Triangular Trade
The identity of large plantations, large slave population and a less diverse population is
What is The south
The Sahara, Savanna and Midway
What are Africa's 3 large zones
Large farms The Native Americans that grew cash crops like sugar and coffee
What are Haciendas
Woman from the Powhatan Tribe, married settler John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Salem Mass. girls accused women of being witches. Many innocent people were hung
What is the Salem Witch trials
The first people to declare slavery as bad
Who are Quakers
Large complex societies in Africa with slavery including Ghana and Mali
What are West African Kingdoms
The church in the Spanish colonies built these to convert Native Americans to Christianity
What are Missions
Crop that brought wealth to the Virginia colony when the did not find gold, this crop was shipped to England
Tobacco
What changed in the Americas to increase the amount of Slaves?
What are more Large Plantations
Rebellion against Governor Berkley by his cousin over Native Americans
What is Bacons Rebellion
A place that experienced much change between 1300-1500 including the Black Death, increase in population and trade, the renaissance and reformation
What is Europe
The movement of plants, animals and diseases that also brought disease
What is the Columbian Exchange
The elected representatives that would meet in the colonies. Was taken by the crown and then given back
What is the House of Burgesses
People who watched over and directed slaves
Who are overseers
Which group of people placed more value on religion than anything, were not tolerant and were involved in the Salem Witch Trials?
Who are the Puritans
Famous explorer from Spain, reached the Caribbean, thought he was in Asia
Who is Christopher Columbus
The practice of taking slaves from Africa and trading them for other goods and using them for labor in colonies
What is the Slave trade
The ship that Pilgrims traveled on to get to America after leaving England because of their religious laws
What is the Mayflower
Slaves gather at the Stono River, killed plantation owners to get freedom and burned
What is the Stono Rebellion
Native Americans were wiped out by what when europeans came to America
Disease
Spread Christianity, Expand Empires, to get rich
What are the 3 Main Goals of Explorers
The name for the voyage from Africa to the Americas, in the middle of the Triangular trade
What is the Middle Passage
colonies who used agriculture as their primary part of their economy
What city had the largest number of free black people living there
What is New York City
These people were the best for slavery because they were immune to disease, had no friends or family in the America, and they were used to working on farms
Who are Africans
The explorer after Columbus that found America looking for Asia
The Spanish Government passed these laws to regulate the treatment of slaves that were mainly designed to keep them as slaves
What are the Slave Codes
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
What are the Middle Colonies
Which of the colony region had the most tolerance
What is the Middle Colonies
People from the boarder of Scotland and England that traveled in families to the Backcountry of America
Who were the Scots-Irish
The country to have the most control over the Americas at this time
What is Spain
Groups of dissenters speaking out against the king and church who wanted to reform the church
Who are Puritans
The dense forest, streams and Appalachian Mountains make up what region?
11 ships carried 1000 passengers to Massachusetts bay and later carried 2000 more across the Atlantic ocean
What is the Great Migration