European Powers
Settled first in Jamestown in 1607, then later in Plymouth Colony in 1620
Who are the English? / What is England?
This happened to the population of Native Americans after the arrival of European Explorers and their deadly diseases
What is decreased?
This region of colonies had fertile and moist soil with humid springs and summers but mild winters.
What are the Southern colonies?
While not technically slavery, this practice used human labor in exchange for transportation to the colonies and eventually land
What is indentured servitude?
Rejected proposal by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Had claims to much of the land west of the 13 colonies, prominently in the Ohio River Valley
Who are the French? / What is France?
The word Haudenosaunee means "people who build the __________"
What is longhouse?
This region of colonies was mountainous with rocky soil and longer winters.
What are the New England colonies?
Before Africans were captured and sold into slavery, Europeans forced this group of people to do their labor
Who are Native Americans?
This appropriately named conflict took place in North America from 1754 to 1763
Financed Christopher Columbus's expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Used the encomienda system to control the indigenous people.
Who are the Spanish? / What is Spain?
Haudenosaunee people relied on the "Three Sisters" crops for food. These "Three Sisters" are
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This region of colonies consists of mostly flat lands and fertile soil, but moderate temperatures in spring and summer.
What are the Middle colonies?
The second leg of the trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in which enslaved people were crammed tightly together below the decks of the ship in very poor conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
European intellectual movement based on reason; inspires ideas used in U.S. government
What is Enlightenment?
New York (City) was once New Amsterdam under the rule of this country, until 1664 when the English took control.
What is the Netherlands? / Who are the Dutch?
"The English disarmed my people. They tried them by their own laws, determined amounts of fines for damages my people could not pay."
"We threaten them with our guns, steal their farming techniques, steal and corrupt their sources of food, claim their land, land, and imposed our government on them."
These quotes show the effects of this act, in which a group takes over a territory by force
What is colonization?
These 4 colonies make up the New England region.
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
The triangular route between the Americas, Europe, and Africa in which raw materials. manufactured goods, and people were transported around the Atlantic
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
One of the influential English Documents?
What is the Magna Carta?
OR
What is the English Bill of Rights?
These Europeans first arrived to North America almost 500 years before Columbus, led by Leif Erikson.
Who are the Vikings?
The original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Council
Who are Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk?
These 5 colonies make up the Southern colonies.
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
This specific type of slavery is when human beings are legally defined as personal property and can be bought, sold, traded, and inherited
What is chattel slavery?
One of the influential colonial documents
What is the Mayflower Compact?
OR
What is the Fundamental Orders of CT?
OR
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?