Native Societies & Regions
These nomadic Great Plains tribes depended on this animal even before widespread horse use
What is the bison (buffalo)?
Spain’s primary religious motive for colonization was to spread this faith.
What is Catholicism?
This transfer of goods, animals, and germs across the Atlantic dramatically reshaped the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Chief Powhatan criticized English settlers for stealing this basic resource.
What is food?
Spanish priests like Bartolomé de las Casas criticized this practice toward Natives.
What is forced labor and abuse?
Tribes along the Pacific Coast, like the Chinook, relied heavily on this food source.
What is salmon?
This Spanish system forced Native Americans into labor under the guise of “protection.”
What is the encomienda system?
This deadly European disease devastated Native American populations after 1492.
What is smallpox?
This 1680 revolt temporarily pushed the Spanish out of New Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Unlike Spanish or English settlers, the French built these types of structures to control trade.
What are forts?
This Native American group built irrigation systems in the arid Southwest.
Who are the Pueblos?
This economic system justified European countries competing for resources and colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This American crop became a major staple food in Africa after the Columbian Exchange.
What is maize (corn)?
This Wampanoag leader organized resistance against English encroachment in New England.
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
Spain mainly colonized regions populated by these advanced indigenous civilizations.
What are the Aztecs and Incas?
This Native culture is known for building large earthen mounds near river valleys.
What is the Mississippian culture?
English promoters like Richard Hakluyt argued exploration would weaken the empire of this European rival.
Who is Spain?
Europeans introduced this large domesticated animal that transformed Native hunting.
What is the horse?
Some tribes, like the Ho-Chunk, maintained early friendly trade relations with which European group?
Who are the French?
The French primarily focused their North American settlements around this economic activity.
What is the fur trade?
The Iroquois Confederacy lived mainly in this region of North America.
What is the Northeast Woodlands?
France’s earliest explorers, like Samuel de Champlain, focused mainly on spreading this religion.
What is Catholicism?
The spread of this cash crop to the Caribbean fueled plantation slavery.
What is sugarcane?
Disease, displacement, and fragmented tribal identities made it hard for Native Americans to form this.
What is a unified resistance?
English colonization differed because it attracted this type of migrant.
Who are families?