This region was dependent on slave labor to do the work.
What is the South (Southern Colonies)?
100
Official Religion of Spain
What is Catholic?
100
Limited the power of King John in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
Longest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi?
200
Disease that decimated Native Americans because they did not have resistance.
What is smallpox?
200
This staple crop was the heart of the Middle colonies.
What is wheat?
200
English Monarch who broke with Roman Catholic Church after the Pope would allow him to divorce.
Who is Henry VIII?
200
First constitution in the Colonies- had a preamble and a set of laws.
What is Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
300
Voyage between African and the Americas. 15% of all Africans died , and those who survived were sold in to slavery.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This crop was grown in the wet environment of the south by slaves who were familiar with it from Africa.
What is rice?
300
Event where British Parliament brought in Protestant Monarchs William and Mary to replace Catholic King.
What is the Glorious Revolution.
300
Resulted in the death of 20 and the imprisonment of nearly 100 New Englanders.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
400
This South American country was settled by the Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
400
First English colony in the New World. What became of it's inhabitants is still a mystery.
What is Roanoke?
400
Mainstay of New England economy. "Farming the Sea".
What is fishing?
400
Religious revival in the 1730s and 40s that preached that inner religious emotion was more important than outward behavior.
What is the Great Awakening?
400
Oldest European permanent settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
500
Aztec capital city
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
Men and women who sold their labor to the person who paid their passage to the colonies. After a few years of work, they were free to get their own land.
What is indentured servants?
500
Term for when people are able to take care of all their own needs.
What is self-sufficient?
500
Intellectual movement that arose in Europe and stressed reasoning and science as more important than religious belief.