Columbian Exchange
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Intermixing of the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas)
Why did the Pequot war start?
Differences in views of the land
Differences in religion
Europeans wanted the resources
Natives had killed some Europeans
Who was King Phillip?
Leader of the Pokanokets
Leader of Native tribe
What is the term used for the voluntary forced labor system that allowed Europeans to come to the Americas in return for land and a house after they serve their time?
Indentured Servants
What were the motivating factors for Europeans to come to the new world (Hint there are 3)
Gold, God, Glory
Horses
Old World
What was the jewelry/beads called that the Natives used for trade?
Wampum
What was one reason the Natives claimed that King Phillips war started?
Giving up their weapons
Europeans getting the natives drunk and tricking them
No fences for cattle
What years were Bacon's Rebellion fought?
1676-1677
What event took place in Mystic Connecticut
Pequot War
What percentage of Native Americans died from the spreading of diseases in the Columbian Exchange?
50-90% of all Native Americans
Who aided the Europeans in the fight against the Pequots?
Other Native American groups (Mohawks, Narragansets)
What was one reason the Europeans claimed caused King Phillips war?
Trying to convert the Natives to Christianity
God is punishing the Europeans
Training the Natives to use guns
Destruction of European property
What was the area where all of the rich people living in the Chesapeake region?
Tidewater
What was the name of the person (First and Last) that led Bacon's Rebellion?
Nathanial Bacon
What is the one and only disease that was spread FROM the New World TO the Old World?
Syphilis
What is one outcome of the Pequot war?
Few Pequot survivors getting sold into slavery
Europeans gaining land/resources
What happened to the Native population in New England after King Phillips war?
Gone
Dead, left, sold into slavery
What issues were the indentured servants facing which led them to rebelling?
Had to live in the bad parts
Attacked by Native Americans in the Chesapeake region
What was King Phillips name?
Metacome
Which plant would become the staple cash crop that American colonists heavily rely upon to create their economy in the early stages?
Tobacco
Who was the Pequot war fought between?
Pequots and the Puritans
What was done to King Phillip after the War?
Head was put on a spike and displayed publicly to scare people into submission
What was the major outcome of Bacon's Rebellion?
Outlawing of Indentured Servitude and the increase in slaves imported from Africa in the United States
How did Bacon Die?
Dysentery
On the toilet