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This was the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago

What is Bering Land Bridge

100
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
100
Title given to the governmental representative of the King in the colonies
What is Governor
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
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 rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
The name given to the interaction between North, Central, South America and the West Indies, Africa and Europe
What is Columbian Exchange
200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
200
This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
What is Encomienda
300

This country settled primarily in modern day Brazil and many other parts of South America, establishing one of the greatest slave societies in the world

What is Portugal

300
English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors
What are the Navigation Acts
300

This is the term used to describe individuals that would trade years of service in order to secure passage to Virginia. 

Indentured Servants 

300
This group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century
Who are the Puritans
300
This Native American fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most Native Americans had either been killed off by disease or displaced
Who is King Philip or Metacom
400

A major conflict between English colonists in South Carolina and local tribe. Fueled by Indian slave trade abuses, mounting debts, and economic exploitation by the colonists

Yamasee Wars

400
This group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York
Who are the Iroquois
400

These organizations across Europe during 11th to the 16th centuries that were association of individuals who practice a similar skill or trade, forming for mutual benefit, to control training and quality, and to advance their collective interests

What are Guilds 

400
This system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival
What is the headright system
400
This 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 uprising in Santa Fe was the most successful against Spain in New Spain until Mexico gained independence from Spain. 

The Pueblo Revolt

500

An English colony chartered granted to an individual in America.   

What is a Proprietary Colony 

500
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
500

Settlers of Connecticut attacked a local native tribe in what became known the Mystic Massacre which lead an end to this war. 

Pequot War

500
This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I
What is Salutary Neglect
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