The Natural World
The Spanish, the French, and the Dutch
Economic Activity
Culture and Society
Conflict and Migration
100
This food was among the first to be farmed in the Americas, spreading north and east from what is now Mexico and the Southwestern US.
What is maize?
100
French settlers in North America made money primarily through this industry.
What is fur trade?
100
Britain's colonial philosophy, that colonies should exist to enrich their mother country, was known by this term.
What is mercantilism?
100
One of the main characteristics shared by most indigenous cultures in the Americas prior to colonization was this practice of responding to the world around them.
What is adaptation?
100
The movement of people, animals, plants, and microbes from one side of the Atlantic to the other, beginning in the 1490s, was named this (after the man given the credit for starting it.)
What is the Columbian exchange?
200
People who lived in dry areas, such as the Southwestern portion of North America, developed this technology to bring water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
200
European colonizers and explorers were generally motivated by these three things.
What are "gold, glory, and god"?
200
The Chesapeake region, where Virginia was the most significant British colony, became extremely wealthy as a result of this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
200
While some groups of indigenous Americans who lived in similar climates may have shared some ways of life, indigenous culture in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans can best be described as this.
What is diverse?
200
The traffic in molasses and other natural resources, rum, and human beings that greatly profited European traders and resulted in the death and enslavement of huge numbers of African people and their descendants in the Americas was known by this geometric nickname.
What is the triangular trade?
300
What about this painting tells you that it depicts a time after the Columbian Exchange?
What is the horse?
300
This Spanish system of controlling colonies by granting both land and power to men who would maintain Spanish rule in the Americas was similar in structure to European feudal systems.
What is the encomienda system?
300
An important economic innovation, this business structure enabled colonial investors to share the risks and rewards of colonization.
What are joint-stock companies?
300
The demographics of the New England colonies included many more of these than British colonies in other regions and colonies belonging to France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
What are families (women and/or children)?
300
These formed the major boundaries between civilizations in the Americas prior to European colonization.
What are geographic features like mountains, plains, and deserts?
400
This term, meaning "dryness", describes the climate in the Southwestern United States.
What is aridity?
400
Europeans hoped to locate this route to Asia through North America, but it did not exist.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
Islands in the Caribbean were considered desirable colonial properties because they could produce this lucrative crop.
What is sugar?
400
Maryland was created as a colonial haven for this group of people.
Who are Catholics?
400
This 1676-1677 uprising in colonial Virginia was due to the demand of the poor and working class for more land.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
People who were indigenous to the Great Plains and hunted large animals like Buffalo lived this type of mobile lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
500
This (imaginary) line around the Earth was set by the Pope to settle territorial conflicts between Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
These laws, passed in the mid-1600s, were part of Britain's desire to grow its own wealth by limiting colonial trade.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
This organization, known today as the first American democracy, gave its member groups autonomy while building collaborative power through a system of dual local and federal control.
What is the League of Five Nations, "Iroquois League", or Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
500
In this conflict, Pueblo people successfully rose up against Spanish colonizers and shifted the balance of power in present-day New Mexico in favor of Pueblo culture and religion.
What is Pope's Rebellion?