Columbian Exchange
This disease carried by Europeans decimated Native American populations
What is smallpox?
This first of its mother nations' colonies population tragically and mysteriously vanished leaving an empty settlement and the word Croatoan carved in a palisade.
What is the Roanoke colony?
This crop was genetically modified by Native Americans and became a main part of their diet
What is maize?
This cash crop became the foundation of Virginia's economy
What is tobacco?
This man wiped out the Aztecs with 600 men and a whole lot of germs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This cash crop grown in the Caribbean and Brazil increased demand for enslaved African labor
What is sugar?
Spain took a bad blow while trying to root out protestants in the Netherlands when this privateer was hired by Queen Elizebeth to destroy and loot their ships.
Who is Francis Drake?
This house was made for extended families and used by the Iroquois often
What is the longhouse?
This document estabished a basic form of self-government in Plymouth
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Englishman helped Jamestown survive and was later an author
Who is John Smith?
This region of the world had increased populations from American crops like cassava and maize
Where is Africa?
Today we complain about Tariffs jacking prices but between 1550 and 1600 this countries use of slaves in Mining virtually doubled prices in Europe.
What is Spain?
This Native American confederacy in the Southeast interacted often with Jamestown settlers
Who are the Powhatan?
This region of colonies developed around small farms, shipbuilding, and trade instead of plantation agriculture
Where is New England?
This Spanish priest criticized Spain’s mistreatment of Native Americans
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This American crop became a major export from the Chesapeake colonies and exhausted soil over time
What is tobacco?
Nearly every Explorer from every country searched with no success for this fabled water route connecting the Atlantic to pacific
What is the Northwest Passage?
This Native American trade with Europeans in the Northeast intensified conflict
What is the fur trade?
This region of colonies was known as the Breadbasket for producing wheat and grain
Where are the Middle Colonies?
This French expolorer sailed the St. Lawrence River and helped France claim land in Canada
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This European animal often ruined Native American fields and crops in the Americas and was more destructive than horses in many areas
What is the pig?
A crucial mistake in the planning and management of New Spain was this local government system that brewed bureaucracy and corruption.
What is cabildo secular?
This Native American revolt leader organized a resistance against the Spanish in New Mexico
Who is Po'pay?
Before becoming an English colony, this modern-day state was known as New Sweden
What is Delaware?
Following the conquest of Mexico this explorer went looking for the seven cities of gold
Who is Francisco Vazquez de Coronado?