Important Events
This early American document outlined self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was an English philosopher whose ideas about natural rights influenced the American colonies. Hint: Social Contract Theory
Who is John Locke?
This system involved the exchange of goods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony was founded in 1607 as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This Native American agricultural crop was crucial to many tribes and the development of societies in North America.
What is maize (corn)?
This 1492 event marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the Americas.
What is Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas?
This Spanish priest spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans in the 1500s.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
This trade route involved the export of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This Native American region was home to the Pueblo peoples, who lived in adobe cliff dwellings in present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Southwest?
This religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional, personal faith and revitalized Protestantism.
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1649 Maryland law granted religious freedom to all Christians, aiming to protect Catholic settlers from persecution.
What is the Act of Toleration?
He led a failed 1689 rebellion in Virginia that could also be identified by this popular breakfast food
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This economic system encouraged colonies to provide raw materials to the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This region was inhabited by nomadic tribes who relied heavily on buffalo hunting and lived in teepees.
What is the Great Plains?
This policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws in the colonies allowed for greater colonial autonomy before 1763.
What is salutary neglect?
This 1619 event was significant as the first representative legislative assembly in English America.
What is the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This religious group, known for their beliefs in equality, pacifism, and fair treatment of Native Americans, founded Pennsylvania under William Penn.
Who are the Quakers?
This labor system was used primarily in the Spanish colonies and involved the forced labor of Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
Coastal tribes in this region depended on fishing, whaling, and cedar trees to build totem poles and longhouses.
What is the Pacific Coast?
These are the three main motivations—Gold, Glory, and God—that drove European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
What are the Three G’s?
This 1675–1676 conflict was the result of tensions between Native Americans and New England settlers.
What is King Philip’s War?
He was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and famously envisioned the colony as a “city upon a hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
These are crops grown primarily for sale and profit rather than for personal use, like tobacco in the Chesapeake colonies.
What are cash crops?
This Native American region included tribes like the Iroquois and Algonquin, who lived in longhouses and had matrilineal societies.
What is the Northeast?
This 1754 event marked the start of a conflict between Britain and France over territory in North America.
What is the beginning of the French and Indian War?