Early America
Events/Places/People
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Misc.
100

This term is used to describe the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans

What is the Middle Passage?

100

This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony

What is Jamestown?

100

What religious group initially settled in Maryland?

What is the Roman Catholics or Catholics?

100
This complex economic system dictated that a country should export more than it imports and build up its gold/silver reserves
What is Mercantilism
100
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies/Caribbean
What is sugar
200

This country's goal was NOT to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism

What is France?

200

This crop was established in Virginia to great economic success

What is tobacco?

200

The name given to the interaction between Europe and the America's after discovery.

What is the Columbian Exchange

200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims
200
Many Native Americans died from this disease, brought by the Spanish to the New World
What is smallpox
300

System of labor utilized by the Spanish to force Native Americans to work in mines or on large plantations

What is the Encomienda System?

300

This colony was established originally as a penal colony, in addition to acting as a buffer between the British colonies and Spanish Florida

What is Georgia?

300
Slaves were traded for rum, tobacco, and guns in this trade
What is the triangle trade
300
This hysteria resulted in the deaths of hundreds of "witches" in 17th century New England
What are the Salem Witch Trials
300
This philosophical movement believed the supremacy of human reason
What is the Enlightenment
400

The religious movement that believed most people are sinners who won't be saved, and preached emotionally and emphatically.

What is the Great Awakening?

400

This Spanish priest protested the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish

Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?

400
This New England colony was founded by Puritans
What is Massachusettes
400
These people came to the colonies owing a debt to those who paid their passage, and had to work off the debt before being considered free
What are indentured servants
400

This peaceful group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that all people (Native Americans, Africans etc.) were holy

Who are the Quakers?

500

This labor intensive, yet profitable crop was grown in South Carolina and other areas of the south in the early and mid-18th century - leading to an explosion in the slave population of the colonies

What is rice or indigo?

500

Name a dissident who got in trouble with Puritan leaders and were forced to leave Massachusetts.

Who is Roger Williams or Anne Hutchinson?


500

This itinerant preacher upset local clergymen, but his outdoor sermons were so moving that he even captivated the attentions of slaves, Native Americans, & religious skeptic Ben Franklin.

Who is George Whitefield?



500

What kind of crop is sold for money and not food?  Give an example.

What is a Cash crop?; i.e. tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar, indigo

500
This agreement by the Pilgrims was one of the first governing documents in America
What is the Mayflower Compact
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