Category 1
This year Columbus stumbled upon the Americas.
What was 1492?
This was the transatlantic trade of biological, environmental, and cultural goods established by European colonization.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Pelts from this North American animal became a trading commodity.
What are beavers?
These were laborers in English colonial America who worked off their debt and voyage for a set time.
Who were indentured servants?
Eventually, England was able to set up this number of colonies on the Atlantic coast.
What is 13?
This was the first Spanish settlement in the future United States.
What was St. Augustine, Florida?
This was the Spanish labor system enforced upon Indigenous groups.
What was the encomienda system?
These three European countries competitively colonized North America.
What were England, Spain, and France?
Dissenting pilgrims founded this English colonial settlement.
What was Plymouth - New England?
This was a mass colonial religious revival in the early 18th century.
What was the First Great Awakening?
This was created through the trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
In this event, Natives from the Southwest successfully rebelled against Spanish colonizers.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
He exposed the mistreatment of Indigenous groups in Spanish America in his writings.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
This was the first successful English settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown - Chesapeake Bay?
These English laws mandated that the colonies traded goods solely with England, using English ships, manned by English sailors.
What were the Navigation Acts?
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
His tough and relentless leadership pushed Jamestown beyond the brutal winters.
This became the first signed document establishing a form of representative government in the English colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This economic system stresses that a colony's primary purpose is to enrich its mother country with resources.
What is mercantilism?
This provided anyone who paid for a voyage across the Atlantic 50 acres of land in Virginia (1618).
What was the headright system?
This was the system used by the Spanish to facilitate Native conversion to Catholicism.
What was the mission system?
In this event, the Powhatan tribe attacked the most famous Chesapeake settlement, leading to bloody warfare between the tribe and the colony.
What was the Jamestown Massacre?
This was a massive conflict between Natives and the unified New England colonies.
What was King Philip's War?
These were the two sides during the First Great Awakening.
Who were the New Lights vs. the Old Lights?
This work, written by John Winthrop, outlined his moral and virtuous expectations for the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What is "City Upon a Hill?"
This Plains tribe was nomadic, known for following the buffalo.
Who were the Crow?
This was the most influential urban Indigenous center of the Mississippian people, known for its massive mound in modern-day Illinois.
What was Cahokia?
This was the most powerful Indigenous alliance during the Beaver Wars.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
He was the influential leader of the Plymouth Colony (Quote of the Day)
Who was William Bradford?
This was the first attempt at an English colonies in North America.
What was Roanoke?