Indigenous Societies and Contact
The primary biological factor introduced during the Columbian Exchange that caused a catastrophic population collapse of up to 90% among Native Americans.
What are Old World pathogens/diseases (such as smallpox or measles)?
The 1620 agreement signed by Pilgrims aboard their ship that established an early precedent for colonial self-government based on majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The colony founded by Quaker William Penn as a "Holy Experiment" based on religious freedom, broad land ownership, and peaceful relations with Native Americans.
What is Pennsylvania?
The single labor-intensive cash crop that financially rescued Jamestown and dominated the 17th-century Chesapeake economy
What is tobacco?
The city Mr. Lowenstein grew up in
What is New York City?
The agricultural crop that spread northward from Mexico into the Southwest, allowing Native societies to build permanent, settled communities.
What is Maize (Corn)?
The Salem minister banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636 for advocating complete separation of church and state, who went on to establish Providence and Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
The unofficial British policy of loosely enforcing trade laws like the Navigation Acts during the 1600s and 1700s, which allowed the American colonies to build independent economies and self-governing assemblies.
What is salutary neglect?
The assembly created in Virginia in 1619 that established the first elected representative self-governing institution in English North America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The number of years Mr. Lowenstein has been at Murrow (inlcuding this one)
What is four?
The colonial Spanish labor system that granted conquistadors land and Indigenous laborers in exchange for promising to convert them to Catholicism.
What is the Encomienda System?
The famous phrase used by Governor John Winthrop in 1630 to describe his vision for Massachusetts Bay as a moral, model Christian society for the world to watch.
What is a "City Upon a Hill"?
The 1730s–1740s transatlantic religious movement that used emotional preaching to challenge traditional church authority across all 13 colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The 1676 Virginia uprising led by landless former indentured servants against Governor Berkeley over frontier land, voting rights, and Native conflicts.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Mr. Lowenstein's age (+/- 2 years)
What is 26?
The 1680 Southwestern uprising in which Indigenous alliance forces successfully expelled the Spanish for over a decade following the suppression of Native religious practices.
What is the Pueblo Revolt (or Popé’s Rebellion)?
The term used to describe Massachusetts Bay Colony because political voting rights and civic laws were strictly restricted to male church members.
What is the Bible Commonwealth?
One group who benefited from the Navigation Acts and one group who was hurt by them
Who are:
(Benefit) New England shipbuilders, British merchants/government
(Hurt) New England merchants/distillers, Southern plantation owners, enslaved Africans
Unlike New England, colonists settling in Jamestown typically did so for this motivation
What is wealth/economic prosperity?
The city Mr. Lowenstein was in when he fractured his ankle this summer
What is Copenhagen?
The intentional environmental management practice used by Indigenous nations to clear forest underbrush, enrich soil nutrients, and create open, park-like grazing habitats for game animals like deer and bison.
What is controlled burning (or cultural fire management)?
The 1675–1676 New England conflict triggered by English land encroachment that resulted in the destruction of dozens of colonial towns before Indigenous resistance in the region was broken.
What is Metacom’s War (or King Philip’s War)?
The primary purpose of government according to John Locke in Second Treatise on Government (1689)
What is protecting people's rights?
The main reason why early Jamestown colonists built James Fort with heavy wooden walls, defensive cannons, and a triangular shape along the river.
What is fear of attacks by local Powhatan Native Americans
One movie mentioned on Mr. Lowenstein's First Day slides
(Either top 4 or top 4 movies of 2026 at that point)
What is the Matrix, the Zone of Interest, Starship Troopers, Dune pt. 2, the Drama, Obsession, Send Help, the Odyssey