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This is the place (city and state) where over 20 people were killed after being deemed guilty of witchcraft.
Salem Massachusetts
This is the year of Columbus' first expedition to the new world.
1492
This animal was the staple of many Plains Indian Tribes. There are well over 100 uses for the animal once it has been processed
This was the first English colony. It did not end well for the settlers.
Roanoke
This term means prejudice or favor towards one thing over another.
Bias
A means of communication that is meant to persuade an audience toward something. Often times through emotions.
Propaganda
These are the Spanish or Portuguese soldiers who explored the new world.
Conquistadors
The major mountain range that runs along the Eastern and North Eastern United States
The Appalachian Mountain Range
These people colonized Massachusettes
The Puritains
Colorado River
The process of occupying a land with settlers to suck out the economic potential.
Colonialism
This is the time period, started by the Spanish, that involves people from Europe sailing to the New World in search of new land and resources.
The Age of Exploration
Age of Discovery
Exploration
This is the piece of land that many scientists believe is the way humans were able to reach the American Continents 10,000 years ago.
Bering Strait
These are the three Colonial Regions
New England
Middle
Southern
These are three cash-crops grown in the Southern Colonies
Tobacco
Cotton
Indigo
Sugar
Rice
A land in which the ruler is a king or queen.
Monarchy
The three G's of exploration
God
Gold
Glory
In class, we discussed these four advantages of Conquistadors over Native Americans.
Guns
Steel (Weapons and Armor)
Horses
Resistance to most Diseases
This document was the first to establish self governance in the new world.
The Mayflower Compact
The form of slavery practiced in America
Chattel Slavery
This word means to be ruled by a priest or by religious law
Theocracy
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
The Native American cultural area that encompasses modern day Utah, Nevada, and parts of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
The Great Basin
This was the name of the trading system between Europe, Africa, and America
Triangular Trade
An agreement made between two people in which one agrees to work for the other for a set period of time without pay.
Indentured Servitude