3 reasons the Spanish came to the Americas?
God/spread Christianity, Gold/wealth, Glory/adventure
The first French colonists in N. America were mostly interested in what?
fishing, trapping, trading
Why was Jamestown a good location/ bad location to colonize?
Good - Spanish couldn't see them
Bad - swampy, mosquitoes, malaria
The Quakers believed what?
all people are equal in God's eyes
Why were slaves introduced to the Americas?
better able to grow the crops the Spanish desired
What was the most significant factor in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas?
1. diseases
others:armor, guns, horses
Bacon's rebellion?
Colonists against the government.
Mayflower compact?
Pilgrims were made aware that they needed to make their own gov.
Colonies brought music from Europe.
Enslaved Africans brought musical traditions with them.
How did they influence the colonies?
They both influenced the American religious music
House of Burgesses?
Allows voters to elect representatives to make laws
Who are at the top of the social class?
Gentry - land owners. men.
Roanoke and Jamestown
Lost colony - King James 1, 1st settlement.
Where did New Jersey originate from?
NY to New Jersey
Duke of York gave the land to friends to create colonies to make it more easily to manage instead of one large NY colony
Great awakening inventions?
Ben Franklin - glasses
Mercantilism is?
exporting > importing
What was Cortez's interaction with Moctezuma?
Moctezuma thought they were gods, and greeted them nicely
define indentured servants
A person owing money and paying with work
Compare Tidewater to Back country
Environmental characteristics
The Great Awakening encouraged what?
development of self-rule; reason; opinions
What did the Bill of Rights do?
protect colonists
Fill in:
1. Peninsulares -
2. - European parents, raised in the US
3. Mestizo -
4. Indio -
1. Born and raised in Europe
2. Criollo
3. mix
4. 100 native
Jamestown growth?
Women, slaves, indentured servants
Increase of Africans came from?
the development of plantations
ministers
Most valuable product in the Americas
enslaved africans