Colonization
This economic colony was set up by the Dutch through a purchase from the Natives, and accepted all people of all religions, as the colony was created solely for profit. Later of the British took it over and it became New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
What is the main was the reason that the Puritans moved to the New England Colonies:
To escape religious persecution.
The Mayas and the Incas cultivated it as an important food supply.
Corn
Name a food brought to Europe from the Americas through triangular trade
White and sweet potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, and corn.
This treaty was sponsored by Pope Alexander VI, and split land claims that the Spanish and Portuguese had on the new world.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The first permanent English colony in America.
The first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
The main he name of the Puritan system that segregated men and women into distinct groups wherein men were given more power and rights than women?
What is Patriarchy?
90% of these people were killed off due to this disease.
What is smallpox?
Name the disease contracted in the Americas through triangular trade
Syphilis
This document was signed by colonists onboard the Mayflower making their way to New England, and set up the first democratic form of government in the colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This movement started because of a civil war in England. Nearly 15,000 settlers came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What was the Great Migration?
The form of democracy that the Puritans used to decide local affairs
What is direct democracy?
These powerful, Latin American tribes were killed off by the Spanish during early settlement.
What were the Aztec and Inca tribes?
This system required the Spanish to pay a tax on each slave they imported to the Americas.
What is the Asiento system?
This colonial system offered native people land in return for a percentage of their yield and that they would convert to Christiantity
What is the Encomienda System?
This colony type was under the direct authority and rule of the king's government, such as Virginia after 1624.
What are royal colonies?
The only nonsectarian college founded during the time period of 1746-1769.
What is University Of Philadelphia?
This Native American group was known for creating large earthen mounds.
What is the Adena-Hopewell culture?
As tobacco prices fell, these crops became more profitable
Rice and Indigo
This document served as the constitution for the colony of Pennsylvania, and incorporated enlightenment ideas, such as personal freedoms.
What if the Charter of Liberties (1701)
These ideas lead to murderous fits in pursuit of land, and mistreatment of many different peoples.
What are Puritan values?
The method used by the British to control the colonial economy by limiting the use of money
What is the monetary system?
These were the five Native tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederation.
What were the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk
What were the three type of things the Columbian exchange transferred?
Plants, animals, and germs
Plants, animals, and germs
A series of laws passed between 1650 and 1673 that establish 3 main rules for colonial trade: trade must be conducted through English-built ships, all goods, with a few exceptions, had to be passed through British ports, and specific goods could be exported to England, and England only
What are the Navigation Acts?