Wild Card
Name the development that brought foods and animals to and from the Eastern and Western hemisphere.
The Columbian Exchange
Name one reason for the decline of Native American population
Disease
Name the colonizing country that settled in present day Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Spain
Why did the southern colonial region have more enslaved than the other regions?
climate and geographic conditions increased opportunity for cash crop agriculture
Describe the experience in Jamestown before the introduction of agriculture and farming
The Starving Time
Spanish - subjugation and exploitation
English - pushed off land
Describe Native American relations with French colonizers
Good relations (inter-married)
Why were the British colonies divided up into 3 distinct regions?
Different economies, geographies, societies
What is the purpose of mercantalism
economically benefit the mother country
Describe Native Americans before European colonization.
The Native Americans were a diverse people with a diverse way of life depending on the environment in which they lived.
Name 1 effect of European colonization
Europeans and Native Americans clash
Enslavement of Africans
Spread of disease
Exchange of food and animals
Cultural diffusion
The first governing document of the Plymouth colony that helped the establishment of local representative assemblies
The Mayflower Compact
A system based on racial differences that determined social class. The more Spanish blood, the higher you were on the pyramid.
Caste System
Name on example of Native American resistance to European Colonization
Metacom's War
Pueblo's Revolt
Name 1 cause of European colonization.
Population increase in Europe
Desire to find new trade route to Asia
Wealthy Europeans want luxury goods
Desire to spread Christianity
European competition for trade
Which economic system was regulated through the Navigation Acts
Mercantilism
Which event was a turning point for religion in the British colonies and brought the colonists together under a shared experience
The First Great Awakening
Which event caused permanent settlement, advanced, diverse societies with less emphasis on hunting and gathering?
The Introduction of Maize Cultivation
Name the Spanish labor system that exploited and subjugated Native Americans to work the land.
The Encomienda System
Name one cause for the increase in African enslaved labor.
The decline of indigenous labor and indentured servitude by enslaved Africans in New World colonies
OR
The increase need for agricultural goods