People
A person of pure Spanish or Portuguese descent who were born in the Americas, not their home country.
What is a Creole?
Name the three locations that were connected by the triangular trade system.
What is Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
The trip African slaves were forced to take across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The first people group to capture and sell enslaved Africans?
Who are Arabs/Muslims?
The country with the most slaves of any in the world.
What is India?
A Christian people group who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620 and highly prioritized education.
Who are Puritans?
The country that colonized eastern Canada, the Great lakes region, and the Mississippi river.
What is France?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The estimated number of African slaves taken across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is 12 million?
The crop Portugal needed lots of labor to grow.
What is sugarcane?
A Spanish merchant who is the first recorded person to have shipped an African slave to the Americas, in 1502.
Who is Juan de Cordoba?
The country whose people colonized the Atlantic coast, independent of the king.
What is England?
A war named after a body part, between England and Spain, that was settled by the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle.
What is the War of Jenkins' Ear?
The individuals who saw great profit in selling African slaves to Europeans.
What is African kings?
A style of warfare involving ambush tactics and suprise attacks, used by Native Americans.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
A Roman Catholic missionary to Latin America who defended the native peoples from slavery and abuses.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
A large plantation estate in Latin America where native peoples provided the labor.
What is a Hacienda?
Part of the Seven Years' War between France and England, in North America.
A system where indigenous people of the Americas paid tribute and provided labor for the Spanish in return for the promise of protection, wages, and spiritual care.
What is the Encomienda System?
Name 3 diseases taken from Europe to the Americas.
Measles, typhus, smallpox, whooping cough, influenza, malaria, mumps, yellow fever
A French explorer who discovered two of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The place where Portuguese captains bought African slaves for the first time in 1441.
What is Mauritania?
Three ways in which English colonies differed from French and Spanish ones.
What are private sponsorship, families, and Protestantism.
The decree by Pope Nicholas V that gave the Portuguese the authority to perpetually enslave pagans and unbelievers.
What is the Dum Diversas?
The exit from a slave fort in West Africa.
What is The Door of No Return?