Native American Societies
This crop was central to the diets of the Mayas and Aztecs
What is Corn (maize)?
This name is given to the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This system involved transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This Protestant group founded Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What are Puritans?
This was the primary reason for the cultural diversity among Native American tribes
What are geographic and environmental differences?
This 1494 treaty divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This 1620 document was an early form of colonial self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This crop became Virginia’s most profitable export in the 1600s
What is Tobacco?
This 1649 law granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This Native American confederation was a political alliance in the Northeast
What is the Iroquois Confederation?
This economic theory motivated European powers to control colonial trade.
What is Mercantilism?
This 17th-century conflict marked Native American resistance to New England colonization
What is King Philip’s War?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This term described a laborer who worked for years in exchange for passage to America.
What are Indentured servants?
He founded Providence, Rhode Island, after being banished from Massachusetts
Who is Roger Williams?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This early North American civilization was known for large earthen mounds.
Who are the Adena-Hopewell?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This technological advance helped spread knowledge across Europe in the 15th century
What is the printing press?
This colony was founded as a haven for Quakers
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the three-legged trade route called between the Americas, Africa, and Europe
What is the Triangular Trade?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This colony's Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered the first written constitution in America.
What is Connecticut?
This Native group in the Southwest developed irrigation systems and lived in multistory buildings.
Who are the Anasazi or Pueblo?
This reason is why Protestant nations like England and Holland wanted to colonize the New World beyond economic motives.
To spread their version of Christianity
(DAILY DOUBLE) These two colonies joined to form Connecticut in 1665
What is Hartford and New Haven?
This company lost its monopoly on the British slave trade in the late 1600s
What is the Royal African Company?
This religious dissenter founded Portsmouth and believed in antinomianism.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?