Before Columbus
After Columbus
Early British North America
The Thirteen Colonies
The American Revolution
100
The first Native Americans arrived in Alaska by crossing a land connected to this country.
What is their Russia?
100
The first governor of the Spanish Colony of Hispaniola.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
These religious refugees came to Massachusetts after being forced from England for claiming the Anglican Church had to be purified.
Who were the Puritans?
100
George Whitefield was a leading figure in this 18th century religious movement
What is the Great Awakening?
100
John Locke was a leading figure in this movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This Native American tribe established an empire with millions of subjects in the area of present-day Mexico
Who were the Aztecs?
200
This historical development brought plants like tomatoes, potatoes, and corn to Europe, while bringing horses, cattle, and terrible diseases to the Americas.
What is the columbian exchange?
200
This plant would become the most valuable product of the Chespeake Bay colonies after the British colonists were taught how to harvest it by native Americans.
What is tobacco?
200
The middle colonies were known for being more _____ than the New England or Southern Colonies; for having more different kinds of people living there.
What is diversity?
200
The Stamp and Sugar Acts were examples of this kind of law; established to raise money from the colonists to pay off British debt.
What are taxes?
300
This pair of monarchs, also known as Los Reyes Catolicos, funded the journey of Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who were the King and Queen of Spain?
300
This disease, brought over by Europeans, is suspected of killing around 90% of the indigenous population of North America.
What is smallpox?
300
Before the shift to African slavery, landowners in Virginia predominantly relied on this group of contracted workers to farm their fields.
Who were indentured servants?
300
The main market for goods from the southern colonies was this European Island.
What is Great Britain?
300
This conflict, waged from 1754 to 1763, would end in a British victory, but one that put their empire in massive amounts of debt.
The French and Indian War
400
Before they developed agriculture, the first Native Americans lived by doing this.
What is hunting and gathering?
400
This economic system involved Native Americans being forced to work on the plantations of Spanish Colonists in exchange for their 'protection'.
What is the Encomienda system?
400
This state, known as "The Holy Experiment" was founded by William Penn under the principles of his Quaker faith.
What was Pennsylvania?
400
This southernmost of the original 13 colonies, was the last to be established, by James Oglethorpe, in 1732.
What is Georgia?
400
In 1775, Thomas Jefferson wrote this foundational document of the United States of America.
The Declaration of Independence.
500
In Pre-Enlightenment Europe, Kings claimed their power and authority came from what source?
Who is God?
500
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"A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" was written by this Dominican Friar, who would go on to be appointed 'Protector of the Indians' by the King of Spain.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
500
This revolution of indentured servants in Virginia would lead the planters to embrace slavery rather than indentured servitude.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
These laws, passed in the 1600s prevented American colonists from trading with anyone outside of the British Empire.
What were the navigation acts?
500
According to John Locke, government exists to preserve this.
What is property?