Spanish Empire and Conquest
Which system developed in Hispaniola in the early 1500s was designed by the Spanish empire to reward conquistadores for their service by giving them rights to indigenous land, labor, and resources?
Encomienda system
What theory has the United States adopted as the predominant means for human migration into North America despite evidence to the contrary?
Bering Land Bridge Theory
Tituba, a Caribbean born enslaved woman was the first person to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93. Whose home did she live and labor in?
Hint: He was a famous religious leader in Salem.
Samuel Parris
According to Bernal Diaz, after being invited into the city of Tenochtitlan, Hernan Cortes held which Aztec ruler captive? Aztec historians dispute these claims.
Moctezuma II
What word did carved in a tree did the governor of Roanoke, John White, find upon his return to an empty colony in 1590? Historians surmise this word is connected to local indigenous groups that aided the colony in White's absence.
Croatan
The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Pope Alexander IV, divided the new world between which two kingdoms?
Spain and Portugal
Which early culture discovered in New Mexico in the 1920s is most often associated with a specific type of projectile points?
Clovis
Which 1676 rebellion in Virginia decreased class conflict between planters, indentured servants, and merchants, but increased reliance on enslaved African labor?
Bacon's Rebellion
What is the defining feature of settler colonialism?
Indian dispossession or land hunger
Which northeastern Indian confederacy became powerful allies of the English and came to dominate the fur trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Hint: Their alliance with the British disappeared after the War of 1812.
Iroquois
Which Spanish clergyman who witnessed Columbus's atrocities in Hispaniola railed against the encomienda system and in his later years became a staunch advocate for Indigenous rights?
Bartolome de las Casas
What early culture created pottery that still sells for large sums of money at auction in the present day?
Hint: Women created this pottery and their distinct pattern served as their signature.
Southwest or early Puebloan peoples
Which Puritan leader who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, gave a now famous speech that included the phrase "a city upon a hill." It is often used in contemporary political discourse to promote the idea of American exceptionalism.
John Winthrop
in 1664, the English took over which Dutch colony? The Dutch were more than happy to hand it over.
New Amsterdam
Which Wampanoag was kidnapped by Europeans and sold into slavery only to find his way home with the ability to speak some English and a familiarity with European traditions and customs?
Tisquantum
Isabella and Ferdinand received which title from the pope after Isabella finished out the centuries long reconquista in the 1490s?
Catholic Monarchs
Hopewell, Adena, and Mississippian cultures are all examples of what?
Hint: They shared similarities with the ziggurat's often found among Indigenous cultures and empires in Mexico and Central America.
Moundbuilders
Anne Hutchinson
The contributions of which institution in the Arabic world gave rise to the European age of exploration?
Islamic House of Knowledge
What was the name given to Pocahontas after she married widower John Rolfe and left for London to be paraded around royal courts as proof savages could become "civilized?"
Rebecca or Rebecca Rolfe
What 1680 revolt was organized by Indigenous peoples entirely in the language of their oppressor?
Pueblo Revolt
Mississippian
Chattel slavery
What is the word used to describe the home colony--or central hub-- of an empire?
Metropole
King Phillip's War