Early Colonization
These people came here to make money or start religious communities; had relatively hostile relations with indigenous people; their colonies became our first 13 states.
Who are the English?
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown?
This area was founded by mostly Puritans, a group of like-minded individuals. These colonies tended to be close-knit and had longer life expectancy than other English colonies. The economy was a mix of farming and trade.
What are the New England colonies?
This crop changed Jamestown from a struggling colony to a successful one.
What is tobacco?
Sought tight control over the colonies and focused on
converting and exploiting the Natives. (Think 3 Gs)
Who are the Spanish?
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in their colonies. This system exploited Native Americans and resources in favor of the Spanish settlers.
Encomienda System
This group created Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims (or Seperatists?)
These people were who the Spanish first encountered when they arrived in Hispaniola. Their language gave us words like canoe, hammock, and hurricane.
Who are the Taino people?
Fewer colonists than other colonial powers; focused on trade, alliances, and intermarriage with Native Americans. Heavy focus on furs (beaver)
Who are the French?
This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system from indentured servants to enslaved people from Africa.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This system attempted to get more people to the southern English colonies by offering 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new indentured servant to the colony.
What is the headright system?
These people agreed to come to the English colonies to work for someone for a set term of years (3-7 years), after which they were freed and given some materials and land to set up their new life.
Who are indentured servants?
European powers competed to find this (imaginary) water route through Canada to China to establish a faster trade route.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This Native American leader fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most of his people and the neighboring tribes had either been killed off by disease or displaced
Who is King Philip or Metacom?
This indigenous man was kidnapped by the English as a teenager, made his way back to his people, helped the English plant corn and find fish, and then played both sides of a dispute to get his own way.
Who is Squanto?
He said this about the indigenous people he encountered: "with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want"
Who is Columbus?
This is an example of how we know that indigenous groups who were living here before colonists came were complex civilizations with farming, architecture, trade, religion, etc.
What is (Cahokia, the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people / Mesa Verde, farming practices of the Plains people, canals and irrigation in the desert, etc.)?
Native American revolt in the late 17th century in present-day New Mexico against the Spanish. The Spanish were expelled for around 12 years. Once they regained control, the Spanish began to take a more accommodating approach to Natives and allowed some religious accommodation.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
In this year, the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, beginning North American slavery in the English colonies.
What is 1619?
Native Americans resisted English Colonial expansion leading to numerous wars such as (Name one)
Pequot War, Beaver Wars, & King Philip's War