Who Am I
A South American Indigenous group conquered by Francisco Pizarro in Peru
Incas
An agricultural system where beans, maize, and squash are grown together to maximize the harvest.
Three sisters farming
Young Virginia planter who led a rebellion against Governor Berkeley to protest his refusal to protect frontier settlers from Indian attacks.
Nathaniel Bacon
Plantations
Native American Revolt that drove away the Spaniards from New Mexico.
Pueblo Revolt
A Mexican Indigenous group conquered by Hernan Cortes
Aztecs
The exchange of foods, people, goods and disease from the old world to the new world.
Columbian Exchange
English man who took control of Jamestown in 1608 and ensured the survival of the colony.
Captain John Smith
Mestizos
Organizational system established by the Spanish that directed all new settlements in the Americas.
Mission System
A explorer for Spain who stumbled upon the West Indies in search of a new water route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
A Spanish government policy of to provide Natives to colonists as labor for the land in exchange of converting them to Christianity.
Encomienda
Chief and father of Pocahontas and led a war against the colonists of Jamestown.
Powhatan
This legal document from 1513 served as the basis for Spanish interaction with American Indians.
Requerimiento
First permanent English settlement founded by the Virginia Company.
Jamestown
English Protestant who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals.
Puritans
Migrants in exchange for transatlantic passage bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service of 4 to 7 years.
Indentured Servants
First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and devout Puritan and ensured its prosperity.
John Winthrop
Set of laws in 1662 that established hereditary nature of slavery and limited rights and education of slaves.
Slave Codes
Colony established by Puritans that became the largest and most influential of the New England Colonies
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Small group of Puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England.
Separatists
Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the Americas.
Middle Passage
Spanish missionary who tried to abolish the encomienda system by documenting the mistreatment of the Natives.
Bartolome de Las Casas
The term used to describe the period of time in which disease, warfare, and enslavement led to the death of millions of Native Americans.
the Great Dying
A rebellion of farmers protesting the Governor's refusal to protect them from attacks by the Natives.
Bacon's Rebellion