Columbian Exchange & Native Americans
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Labor system used by Spain to organize Native labor.
What is the Encomienda System?
French colonists generally differed from Spanish colonists by developing these with Native Americans.
What are alliances?
Labor system increasingly used in the colonies during the 1600s and 1700s.
What is African slavery?
English settlement founded in Virginia in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The primary cause of Native population decline after European contact.
What are diseases/epidemics?
Spanish colonial wealth focused heavily on extracting these resources.
What are gold and silver?
Major economic activity connecting the French and Native Americans.
What is the fur trade?
Demand for this fueled the growth of slavery.
Agricultural cash crops.
John Smith wrote his account largely to gain support from these groups.
Investors and the monarchy.
A crop from the Americas that transformed European diets.
What is corn, potatoes, or tomatoes?
Priest who criticized Spanish treatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
Native confederacy referenced in the SAQ that was important to British-French competition.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This 1676 uprising exposed tensions between frontier settlers and Virginia's elite leadership and accelerated the transition toward racial slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
One major lesson learned from Jamestown's early struggles.
Increased attention to farming/agriculture.
The most direct effect of Native population decline on colonial labor systems.
Importation of enslaved Africans.
The Spanish Empire expanded primarily because European nations competed for this.
Economic and political power.
French missionaries and traders helped France gain this among many Native groups.
Influence/alliances.
Most immigrants to the Chesapeake during the early colonial period.
Young single men.
Governor criticized by Nathaniel Bacon.
Who is Sir William Berkeley?
Native groups along the Eastern Seaboard demonstrated this characteristic according to John Smith's account.
Complex societies with permanent settlements.
To maximize profits, Spanish colonial leaders often did this to Native populations.
Subjugated them as laborers.
The French and British competed primarily for control of this.
Trade and territory in North America.
This group generally gained the most economic opportunities in the colonies.
White male migrants.
Bacon accused Berkeley of failing to protect settlers from whom?
Native Americans.