The first peoples to populate North America crossed a land bridge coming from this country
What is Russia
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 (they administered each colony)
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/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 North, Central, South America and the West Indies, Africa and Europe that resulted in the exchange of goods
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
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
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 that there is a personal God who controls are lives.
What is the Great Awakening
400
This famous female Native American was important to the success of Jamestown
Who is Pocahontas
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
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
What is royal 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
Women in this area were often subject to arranged marriages and strict male control
What is New England
500
This agreement by the Pilgrims was one of the first governing documents in America