Geography
The theoretical location where Native Americans are believed to have crossed into North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Christopher Columbus was determined to spread this denomination of Christianity to the New World.
What is Catholicism?
Name of the first the first European to land in North America.
Who is Leif Erikson of Norway?
These three Gs inspired the explorers of the 1400s.
What is God, glory, and gold?
Name for the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Native Americans who hunted buffalo and lived in tepees were from this geographical region.
What are the Great Plains?
Name for the English Calvinists who sought to reform, or purify, the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521 and claimed Mexico for Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The form of government practiced by the Iroquois Confederacy was the inspiration for this important American document.
What is the Constitution?
A Spanish or Portuguese explorer and soldier who sought to conquer new lands and territories in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What was a conquistador?
Cliff-dwelling Native Americans lived in this geographical region.
What is the Southwest?
This Protestant group felt that the Church of England was corrupt and beyond reform.
Who were the Separatists?
This English explorer was the leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Who is John Smith?
Economic policy of Europe that held that a country’s power depended mainly on its wealth.
What is mercantilism?
This event that affected 10 girls and young women is a horrifying example of mass hysteria and injustice in colonial American history
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Name of the first (permanent English) American colony.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The _____ was a 17th century religious revival movement that may have influenced the American Revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
The first settler to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export in Virginia, but best known for who he married.
Who is John Rolfe?
A self-governing agreement signed in 1620 by male passengers before disembarking to form the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This group, who got their name because they "tremble at the word of God," drafted the first recorded protest against slavery in the Americas.
Who are the Quakers?
The original name for New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
Who is George Whitefield?
British American colonial author who wrote one of the first 17th-century captivity narratives, in which she told of her capture by Native Americans.
Who was Mary Rowlandson?
The White Lion, the first ship carrying enslaved Africans, arrived in the British colony of Virginia in this year.
What is 1619?
The final leg of the Triangle Trade that carried enslaved persons from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?