Pre-Columbian America
These are the Three Sisters.
Maize, Beans & Squash
This Middle Eastern empire blocked European trade with Asia which caused Europeans to sail west in search of new trade routes.
Ottomans
This is the economic worldview which influenced the British relationship with its colonies.
Mercantilism
The signing of this document united the Plymouth colony.
Mayflower Compact
This religious revival broke out in Europe in the 1730s and swept through the colonies in the early 1740s.
The Great Awakening
In this region of North America, Native Americans lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers, following the bison herds.
The Plains
This new world crop caused a population boom in the old world.
The potato
This profitable crop saved the Jamestown colony.
Tobacco
This was the representative legislative body of the Virginia colony.
Virginia House of Burgesses
This famous American wrote a popular almanac under the pseudonym "Poor Richard".
Benjamin Franklin
This was the Native American political alliance which formed around the Algonquian languange.
Iriquios Confederation
This old world livestock changed the way of life on the American plains.
The horse
These settlers made a "pilgrimage" to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution.
Puritans
This New England document was the world's first constitution.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This newspaper editor was acquitted of libel after printing harsh critiques of the New York governor.
John Peter Zenger
These were the dwellings for many coastal Native American groups, like the Iroquois.
Longhouses
The Spanish employed this to convert Natives to Christianity and extract labor from Native Americans.
Encomienda System
The Virginia colony turned to these laborers following Bacon's Rebellion.
Chattel Slaves
William Penn guaranteed religious liberty and established Delaware with this document.
Charter of Liberties
This Lockean enlightenment notion argued that governments and its citizens are engaged in a mutual relationship.
The Social Contract
This is the Native American religious tradition that believed that the land had a spirit and therefore could not be owned.
Animism
This debate raged in Spain over the treatment of Natives in the Americas.
The Valladolid Debate
This "king" organized a Native American army in an attempt to eliminate the New England colonies.
Metacom
Puritans made this concession to maintain the political involvement of New Englanders who didn't regularly attend church services.
Halfway Covenant
These laws forced colonial goods to be transported only on British ships, and sold only through British ports.
Navigation Acts