European Exploration
This was a major cause of the decline of native populations in the Americas after 1492.
What is epidemics and diseases that were spread by Europeans.
In this region, Native Americans lived in tipis made of buffalo hides.
What is the Great Plains?
This colonial region was most likely used indentured servants because of their reliance on tobacco.
What is the Chesapeake region?
The goal of this system was to gain more wealth for England through trade and exchange of goods with the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This inspired ideas about science, liberty, equality, and laws of nature in colonial America.
What is the Enlightenment?
This system was used by the Spanish to force indigenous people to do labor in order to generate more wealth.
What is the encomienda system?
This is how Native Americans reacted to early efforts by colonists in attempts to force them into labor.
What is resisted and defended their territory?
The settlers of Plymouth wrote this to agree to self-govern their colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These laws restricted who the colonists could trade with and imposed taxes on trade.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This movement caused a revival of religious beliefs and led to new denominations of religion in the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
This was the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the New world and Old world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Due to lack of native resistance, both the Spanish and American colonists found new sources of labor from...
What were enslaved Africans?
This group of settlers came to New England to purify the church of England but were intolerant of other religions.
What are the Puritans (old lights)?
The high demand for agricultural goods from the colonies led to this aspect of the transatlantic trade system.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This evangelical New Light preacher traveled to inspire religious revivals, mainly in the Middle colonies.
Who was George Whitefield?
This was one of the most significant successes of the Columbian Exchange on the Old world.
What is Europe got new crops and raw materials that resulted in population growth and economic development?
This was the outcome of Metacom's War (also known as King Philip's War).
What is the Wampanoag tribe was decimated, and many moved west or sold into slavery.
This colonial region was most reliant on the labor of enslaved Africans.
What is the Southern region?
The colonists were able to establish trade with other European countries because of this British policy.
What is salutary neglect?
One thing in common between the Great Awakening and Enlightenment was their belief in this idea that would later inspire the American revolution.
What is liberty (freedom)?
This was a direct result of the large number of natives living in Spanish colonies that died of disease, and therefore were not fit for labor.
What is the emergence of the slave trade?
Of the two competing theories of Native American societies before European colonization, what similarity did both theories share?
(Hint: This was from the reading from the first day of class that compared sources about the same time period.)
Native Americans established complex societies, and adapted and transformed their enviroment.
This colonial region has the most ethnic and economic diversity.
What are the Middle colonies?
This is how Africans who were subject to the harsh conditions of the Atlantic Slave trade reacted.
Resistance, including incidents of rebellion and fighting.
These people embraced Enlightenment ideas and hoped they would bring them more freedom and equality.
Who were indentured servants and those who were poor and lacked power.