Exploration & Colonization
This Italian explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, sought a westward route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This early crop, also called maize, was crucial to Native American diets.
What is corn?
This colony, founded in 1607, was England’s first permanent settlement.
What is Jamestown?
The economic system designed to benefit the mother country by regulating trade.
What is mercantilism?
Colonists used this system to encourage immigration by granting land per indentured servant.
What is the headright system?
đź“Ł DAILY DOUBLE! The Spanish crown issued these laws in 1542 to end the enslavement of Natives and reform encomiendas.
What are the New Laws of 1542?
This term refers to the land connection that once joined Asia and North America.
What is the land bridge?
These separatists founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
These British laws restricted colonial trade to only English ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This leg of the Triangular Trade brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Spanish system that granted land and labor of Native Americans to colonists.
What is the encomienda system?
đź“Ł DAILY DOUBLE! This group of Native Americans in the Great Plains became highly mobile after the introduction of the horse.
Who are the Lakota Sioux?
He helped lead the “Holy Experiment” in Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This religious revival swept through the colonies in the 1730s–1740s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This brutal conflict in New England was led by Metacom against colonial expansion.
What is King Philip’s War?
He conquered the Aztec Empire in the early 1500s.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The three major Native civilizations of Mesoamerica.
Who are the Mayas, Aztecs, or Incas?
This rebellion exposed tensions between backcountry farmers and Virginia elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
He was a fiery preacher of the Great Awakening, known for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
đź“Ł DAILY DOUBLE! This uprising of enslaved people in 1739 South Carolina led to harsher slave codes.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This Spanish priest debated SepĂşlveda over the rights of indigenous peoples.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
These ancient mound-building societies developed in what is now the Midwest.
Who are the Adena-Hopewell?
đź“Ł DAILY DOUBLE! This dissenter was banished from Massachusetts and later helped found Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
đź“Ł DAILY DOUBLE! This English policy allowed colonies some autonomy in trade until the mid-18th century.
What is salutary neglect?
This type of slavery treated enslaved people as property, passed down through generations.
What is chattel slavery?