American Indians and Early Encounters
Native American and European Relations
European Colonies Expand
The American Colonies Take Shape
100
This is one of the two theories explaining how people migrated to North America.
What is land bridge theory or coastal-route theory?
100
This European power conquered the Aztecs and most of Latin America.
What is the Spanish?
100
This was the main reason most European explorers originally set sail west towards the Americas.
What is to find a Northwest Passage (a water route to Asia)?
100
Many poor immigrants got their passage to the Americas paid in exchange for becoming...
What is an indentured servant?
200
This big innovation helped lead to a population explosion in North America.
What is agriculture?
200
This European power treated the Native Americans the most fairly.
What is the French?
200
This is what most Spanish conquistadors where looking for in the Americas.
What is gold?
200
This area of the colonies had the least amount of churches and schools.
What is the South?
300
When slavery first began in West Africa, slaves were almost always...
What are criminals and POW's?
300
This "exchange" fueled European population growth and triggered enormous population shifts around the world!
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
This crop made the colonial experiment worth while for the British.
What is tobacco?
300
Explain Pontiac's Rebellion.
What is an uprising by Native Americans that took place after the French and Indian War. The Indians rebelled because the British cut off trade with them and were moving onto Indian lands?
400
Sometimes referred to as a Holy War between Christians and Muslims this collection of events indirectly led to an increase in trade and exploration.
What is the Crusades?
400
This man had a crazy idea...pay Indian's fair prices for their land!
What is Roger Williams? He bought the land that would become Providence, Rhode Island.
400
The first English colony to survive.
What is Jamestown? Roanoke was the first settlement but it failed (twice).
400
This was the purpose of the Navigation Acts.
What is a set of laws made by the British to control trade with and in the colonies and to make dolla-dolla bills?
500
This world power was the first European country to trade for slaves on a large scale in West Africa.
What is Portugal?
500
This rebellion was the Native Americans response to the British moving into the Ohio River valley after the French and Indian War (aka the 7 Years War).
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
500
Define castas.
What is a complex system of racial heirarchy set up by the Spanish in their colonies?
500
Explain all three parts of the triangular trade. (Answers will vary)
What is Europe shipped manufactured goods (textiles, metalware) to Africa in exchange for slaves, the slaves would then be shipped across the middle passage to South America, the West Indies, and the American colonies in exchange for raw goods/materials (tobacco, sugar cane, etc.)?
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