The World in 1500
European Exploration of America
The English Establish 13 Colonies
The Colonies Develop
Beginnings of an American Identity
100
Tools and other objects made by humans.
What are artifacts?
100
A person sent by the Catholic Church to convert native peoples to Christianity.
What is a missionary?
100
A business or project organized by investors who pool their wealth in order to turn a profit.
What is a joint-stock company?
100
The far western region of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies that ran along the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Backcountry?
100
A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master.
What is an apprentice?
200
To move from one location to another
What is migration?
200
An economic system in which a nation increases its wealth by exporting more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
200
A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
200
A farm that produces only enough food for a family to eat and trade.
What is a subsistence farm?
200
A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
300
A way of life shared by people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs.
What is culture?
300
An explorer who set out in 1501 for a sea route to Asia, but instead came to a land that was later named for him, America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
300
Term for trading route between Africa, the West Indies, and New England.
What is triangular trade?
300
A preacher who stressed inner religious emotions with sermons such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
A complex culture characterized by five advanced systems, including city trade centers and specialized jobs.
What is civilization?
400
Soldiers who explored America and claimed the land for Spain.
Who are conquistadors?
400
An adventurer who took control of the colony of Jamestown, announcing that "He that will not work shall not eat".
Who is John Smith?
400
Laws passed by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to ensure that England made money from its American colonies' trade.
What are the Navigation Acts?
400
A minister who inspired colonists to help others and raise funds to build a home for orphans.
Who is George Whitefield?
500
The practice of bringing water to crops.
What is irrigation?
500
A Spanish soldier who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico in 1521.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
500
A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America.
What is an indentured servant?
500
To illegally import or export goods.
What is smuggling?
500
An 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge.
What is Enlightenment?
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