Native American societies
What crop, introduced by Native Americans, became essential to European diets?
corn (maize)
This route facilitated the exchange of slaves, raw materials, disease, ideas and manufactured goods between three continents. What is the name of this?
Triangular trade (Columbian Exchange)
What cash crop became vital to the success of Jamestown?
Tobacco
What was the dominant religious group in Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Puritans
"The atrocities committed by the Spaniards against the indigenous peoples… are beyond description.”
Bartolomeo de las casas
Name the Native American civilization in present-day Mexico known for their capital, Tenochtitlan.
Aztecs
Which disease brought over from Europeans wiped out close to 90% of the Natives during the 16th century?
Smallpox
Which religious group founded Pennsylvania? Give the term used to describe their way of life:
Quakers, egalitarianism
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics
We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
John Winthrop
Name the Native American revolt in 1680 against Spanish colonization in the Southwest.
Pueblo Revolt
What is the name of the Spanish system that forced Native Americans into labor in the colonies?
Encomienda
What was the name of the first representative government in the American colonies?
VA House of Burgesses
What religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s led to increased evangelical beliefs in the colonies?
Great Awakening
"...the sudden and unexpected beginning of this rebellion, that hath been fatal to the colony."
Bacon's Rebellion
Explain how Spanish interaction with the Natives differed from English:
They intermarried with the Natives and established a caste system
Name the economic theory that drove European colonization.
Mercantilism
Which colony was known as the “buffer colony”?
Georgia
This doctrine, adopted by many Puritans, preached a concept that Anne Hutchinson would challenge.
Predestination
"We, being desirous to make profit from the resources of the New World, do establish a colony to exploit the riches of the land and to promote trade for the benefit of our company and nation."
John Smith
This Native American group, known for their matrilineal society, lived in longhouses and promoted unity among tribes in the Northeastern woodlands.
Iroquois
This 1588 confrontation resulted in a significant shift in power and the decline of Spanish dominance in Europe and the New World
The Spanish Armada
What is the term for the period of relaxed British enforcement of trade laws before the mid-1700s?
Salutary Neglect
What law passed in a Chesapeake colony allowed freedom of worship for all Christians, but sentenced those who denied Christ to death?
Act of Toleration
"Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God; I have found that the soul is free to choose its own path to salvation."
Roger Williams