5 Ws
This is the "What" of the era. It's a word that means people from one part of the world take over land in another part of the world.
What is colonization or empire building?
This is the approximate amount of years that Native Americans lived in the Americas BEFORE the Europeans arrived.
What is 13,000 - 14,000 years?
This is an agreement of male Pilgrim colonists that formed the basis for the government of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. It's named after the boat they arrived on.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This European colonial woman is the wife of a man who was a leading delegate to the Continental Congress. She wrote to him asking him to "Remember the Ladies" - meaning that she wanted him to include women's rights in the founding documents of the US government.
Who was Abigail Adams?
THIS WORD is an umbrella term for the sects of Christianity that are not Catholic or Orthodox.
What is Protestant?
This term means the trade of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas, Europe, and Africa after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Hernando de Soto was the first European to discover this MAJOR RIVER that runs through the middle of the US today. The river is also fun to spell.
What is the Mississippi?
European established the 13 North American colonies approximately between what TWO DATES?
What is 1500s - 1700s or the Late Fifteenth Century to the 18th Century?
This is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the US. It was founded in 1565 by the Spanish.
What is St. Augustine?
This document - from Maryland - was the first piece of legislation to include acceptance for Catholics; it permitted any form of Christianity to be practiced.
What is the Act of Toleration?
When HE landed in the Bahamas, he thought he was in Asia. But his discovery introduced Europeans to the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Spain, were members of THIS SECT OF CHRISTIANITY.
Tomatos and Potatoes traveled from _______ to _______ in the Columbian Exchange?
What is from the new world/Americas to Europe?
The Spanish and the Portugese are connected by this TREATY. Its geographic line is the reason why Brazilians speak Portuguese while most other South and Central Americans speak Spanish.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
When we think of "who" and Colonial America, what three groups of people do we generally think of? Be specific.
Who are the European Christians/Colonists, the Indigenous Americans, and the Enslaved Africans?
THIS WORD means a person who entered into a period of labor for another person and who would be freed from that obligation after serving the required number of year.
What is an indentured servant?
A document written by THIS MAN is a famous account of his enslavement in the Caribbean and in North America.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
This ENSLAVED GIRL traveled via the Middle Passage and was eventually brought to Boston and England. She wrote poetry, became the second woman in the colonies to publish her writing, and because of this, we have a first hand account from a young women's perspective about slavery.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
British protestants who were members of Henry VIII's church are called THIS TERM.
What are Anglicans (or members of the Church of England)?
Pigs, Horses, Small Pox and Wheat traveled from ________ to __________ in the Columbian Exchange.
What is from Europe to the Americas?
This conquistador explored much of the American south west while in search of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. He made it to Grand Canyon, but died in Mexico City of disease.
Who was Coronado?
The "Why" of European colonization of the Americas can be explained with these three reasons.
What are the "3 Gs": God, Glory, and Gold?
This TERM means the voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, the Caribbean, and South America.
What is the Middle Passage?
HE established Maryland as a proprietary colony for English Catholics.
Who was Cecilius Calvert?
This Spanish conquistador arrived in Florida and was looking for the "fountain of youth" among other things. he was killed by a band of indigenous Calusas.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leòn?
Members of THIS English protestant sect criticized the Anglicans (or the Church of England) for seeming too Catholic. They fled England and settled in various New England colonies.
Who were the Puritans?
This is the economic system promoted by colonialism. The mother country or metropole benefits, while the colonies are restricted from economic growth because they cannot trade with each other.
What is mercantilism?
The Iroquois League was an alliance of Native American tribes in the northeast who allied with THIS EUROPEAN COUNTRY against France.
What is England or Great Britain?
Name FIVE of the original 13 colonies.
What are: NJ, MD, VA, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NC, GA, DE, SC, and NH
THIS TERM is when a king gives control of a colony to a man or group of men, who then appoint a governor, set up courts, and collect taxes from settlers.
What is a Proprietorship?
According to Benjamin Franklin, young men entered the workforce in colonial America by starting with this job level.
What is apprenticeship?
HE was banished from Massachusetts by the Puritans and later bought Rhode Island from the indigenous Americans.
Who was Roger Williams?
This is a religious denomination of Christianity who are known for their belief in equality and thus not always submitting to authority. Unwelcome in England, they founded Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?
This is a METHOD OF RAISING FUNDS when people buy shares of a business so that the risks and benefits of a business can be shared. Expeditions to the new world were often funded in this manner.
What is a Joint Stock Company?
This Quaker founded the colony where Philadelphia is located. He advocated limited religious freedoms and was known for his treaties with the Lenape Native Americans.
Who was William Penn?