The Spanish
These natives were famously conquered by Hernán Cortes in the 16th century.
Who are the Aztecs?
The first permanent English settlement in America was called this.
This broad group of reformist Christians rejected the reforms of the Anglican Church.
Who were Puritans?
Migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service were called this.
This term refers to the night when the Spanish were forced out of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán by the chieftain Moctezuma.
What is noche triste?
These small Portuguese ships revolutionized seafaring by enabling ships to sail against prevailing winds.
What are caravels?
What is the Canadian Shield?
This group of Puritans who wanted to break away from the Church of England.
Who were seperatists?
This compact was made by the pilgrims as an early promise to form a majoritarian government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Spanish Armada was defeated by this nation in 1588.
What is England?
This treaty divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This ancient Indian city was located near modern-day St. Louis.
What is Cahokia?
Calvinists believed in this, which meant that someone was already going to heaven or hell regardless of their acts.
What is predestination?
This group founded Pennsylvania and settled heavily there.
Who were Quakers?
This uprising was sparked by country farmers' and indentured servants' anger about Governor William Berkeley refusing to protect farmers from Indians, but grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite.
What is Bacon's rebellion?
This Spanish name was the process of gifting natives as a gift that was essentially slavery.
What is encomienda?
This was the largest and most influential of the early colonies.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Also known as sumptuary laws, these were designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality.
What are blue laws?
The transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies was called this.
What is the middle passage?
The North American theater of the greater War of Austrian Succession was called this.
What is King George's War?
This battle was fought between Spaniards and Pueblo Indians in 1609.
What is the battle of Acoma?
These were vast tracts of land given to wealthy promoters in exchange for bringing settlers.
What are patroonships?
Anne Hutchinson was a prominent believer in this, which held that the elect need not follow the laws of God or man.
What is antinomianism?
The headright system encouraged the importation of indentured servants by allowing individuals to acquire this if they paid for a laborer's passage.
What is fifty acres of land?
This war was led by Metacom which slowed the colonists' advances, it is named after his Anglicized name.
What is King Phillip's War?