Exploration, Contact, Native Peoples
This was the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony evolved over time into a hybrid culture that was based on intermarriage between the native peoples, the settlers, and, later, the African slaves, in the area.
What is New Spain?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This colony's success was due to tobacco.
What is Virginia?
The consumer revolution meant that even modest farmers could afford to purchase these types goods.
What are books, ceramics, fine fabrics, tea, etc.?
OR
What are luxury goods?
Mound-building tribes flourished here.
What are the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys?
After the English seized it, this Dutch colony was renamed New York.
What is New Netherlands?
This is a social problem that England experienced between 1580 and 1650.
What is overpopulation?
OR
What is the land loss due to the "enclosure movement"?
This colony's success was due to the cash crop of rice.
What is Carolina?
During the colonial period this social class held most of the political power.
What is the social elite?
These Native Americans used irrigation systems to aid their agricultural production and lived in what is now the American southwest.
Who are the Pueblo Indians?
This was the first permanent European settlement in what became the American Southwest.
What is Santa Fe?
These settlers were mostly Separatist families who left England because they wanted to completely separate from the Church of England because they thought it retained too many Catholic practices.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This region had more economic equality because more of the colonists were landowners.
What is New England?
This series of religious revivals encouraged people to challenge the elite.
What is the Great Awakening?
This was the initial motivation for European exploration?
What is a search for a new sea route to Asia to obtain trade goods.
This colony remained largely unpopulated and was characterized by settlers who often adopted Indian ways.
What is New France?
These were the motivations for the establishment of Jamestown.
What is a desire for gold and plunder?
This theory states that the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
What is mercantilism?
This was one of the main lines of social difference and division in seventeenth-century England and the English colonies.
What is religion?
Indian women sometimes selected tribal leaders. This is one example of a difference between Native Americans and Europeans in _______ .
What are gender relations?
This is the only completely successful Native American uprising in North America.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This was a motivation for the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What is to establish a "City Upon a Hill"?
OR
What is religious freedom?
This is a form of slavery in which a slave is actual property that can be bought, sold and inherited, and in which the children of slaves are usually also slaves.
What is chattel slavery?
This refers to a woman surrendering her legal
identity to her husband when she marries.
What is coverture?