European Colonization
Colonial Regions
Transatlantic Trade and Slavery
Interactions with Native Americans
Colonial Society and Culture
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100
This Spanish labor system granted colonizers the right to demand labor or tribute from indigenous peoples in exchange for "protection" and Christianization.
What is the encomienda system?
100
This region's plantation economy, centered on rice and indigo, relied heavily on enslaved Africans — some specifically valued for rice-cultivation skills from their homeland.
What are the Southern Colonies?
100
This economic theory, holding that colonies existed to enrich the mother country through a favorable balance of trade, guided European colonization policy.
What is mercantilism?
100
This disease, brought by Europeans and to which Native Americans had no immunity, caused catastrophic population losses among indigenous peoples.
What is smallpox?
100
This intellectual movement, emphasizing reason, science, and natural rights, influenced educated colonists' views on government and society.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This is Spanish for "library."
What is biblioteca?
100
What is Sweden?
200
This 1494 treaty, brokered by the Pope, divided New World territorial claims between Spain and Portugal along a line of demarcation.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
This region's settlement pattern centered on tight-knit towns organized around a church and a town meeting.
What are the New England colonies?
200
This brutal sea voyage transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas under horrific, often deadly conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
This series of attacks on English settlers in Virginia, occurring in 1622 and 1644, reflected growing resentment over land encroachment.
What is the Powhatan Uprising / War?
200
This series of Protestant religious revivals in the 1730s–1740s emphasized emotional preaching and a personal relationship with God.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
6 - (3 x 7) + 3(18/2) + 1 = what
What is 13?
200
These are the names of all my Pokemon plushies.
What are Chansey, Snorlax, Gengar, Charizard, Pikachu, Clefairy, and Vulpix?
300
This is the predominant resource that French colonists traded for in their Canadian outposts.
What is fur?
300
This region was founded partly as a haven for Quakers and became known for its unusual ethnic and religious diversity, including Dutch, German, and Scots-Irish settlers.
What are the Middle Colonies?
300
This 1739 slave uprising in South Carolina, in which enslaved people seized weapons and killed several colonists, led to stricter slave codes throughout the Southern colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
300
This 1675–76 conflict, one of the deadliest in colonial New England, pitted a Wampanoag-led coalition against English colonists over land and autonomy.
What is King Philip's War / Metacom's War?
300
This devout English politician, after his banishment from Massachusetts, established Rhode Island explicitly to practice religious toleration.
Who is Roger Williams?
300
These are all the planets in order from closest to the sun to furthest.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
300
These are the names of two animes that have over 1000 episodes each.
What are (ex. One Piece, Pokemon, Doraemon, Detective Conan, etc.)?
400
This document, signed by Pilgrim settlers aboard their ship in 1620, established a basis for self-government before landing at Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This region included colonies where family grain farms coexisted with tobacco plantations.
What are the Chesapeake Colonies?
400
This system of forced labor, in which enslaved Africans and their descendants were treated as legal property, became the economic backbone of many colonial economies.
What is chattel slavery?
400
This alliance of Native nations in the Northeast used diplomacy and trade relationships with the French and English to maintain power and independence.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
This 1735 court case, in which a printer was acquitted of libel for criticizing New York's royal governor, set an early precedent for freedom of the press.
What is the Zenger trial?
400
This Austrian neurologist founded psychoanalysis and developed theories about the unconscious mind, including concepts like the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
These are two movies or TV shows in which the protagonist becomes the antagonist.
What are (???)
500
This Dutch colony, centered on New Amsterdam, was established primarily for fur-trading profit before becoming a British colony in 1664.
What is New Netherlands?
500
By the 18th century, this region's population grew mainly through natural increase rather than continued immigration, unlike others, which relied longer on new arrivals to offset high mortality.
What are the New England colonies?
500
This English trading company held a monopoly on England's slave trade and transported enslaved Africans to the American colonies during the late 17th century.
What is the Royal African Company?
500
This 1680 uprising in Spanish New Mexico saw Native Americans successfully expel Spanish colonizers from the region for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
500
This is one of the two English preachers, famous for open-air revivals across the colonies, who helped spread the Great Awakening and drew massive, diverse crowds.
Who are Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield?
500
In the sentence, "Lebron will be remembered as the Greatest of all Time," the "as" is this grammatical term.
What is a preposition?
500
This is the solo musical artist with the most albums sold of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley?