Early America
This term means the period of American history before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.
What is Pre-Columbian?
This good was traded between African Tribes and Europeans during the Slave Trade in exchange for Slaves
What are firearms?
These 3 G's were the main reasons for Europeans to come to the Americas.
What is Gold, Glory, and Gospel (God)?
This English settlement was founded in Virginia in 1607 and most popular for the cash crop called Tobacco.
What is Jamestown?
This was America's first elected legislature in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This land formation allowed early peoples to migrate from Asia into North America.
What is Beringia?
This West African ruler was famous for his enormous wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Spanish explorers who traveled to the Americas to find wealth, spread Christianity, and gain fame were called these.
What are conquistadors?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a place of religious tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
This economic system was designed to increase England's wealth by controlling colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This Mississippian city was the largest Native American city in North America.
What is Cahokia?
This trade route crossed the Sahara Desert and connected West Africa with North Africa.
What is the Trans-Sahara trade?
This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This colony was founded partly as a place where debtors could get a fresh start.
What is Georgia?
These English laws were designed to control colonial trade
What are the Navigation Acts?
Native Americans in this region depended heavily on the buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter.
What are the Great Plains?
This religion spread into West Africa largely through trade with North African merchants.
What is Islam?
This French explorer founded France's first permanent settlement in the New World.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This set of colonies would be home to those seeking religious freedom and would include the likes of those who called themselves "Puritans".
What are the New England Colonies?
This policy allowed the colonies to govern themselves with relatively little interference from Britain.
What is salutary neglect?
This belief system held that spirits existed in nature and inanimate objects.
What is animism?
The Atlantic slave trade weakened African societies by causing population loss and disrupting political and economic development.
What is the impact of the slave trade on African society?
This Dutch explorer searched for a Northwest Passage and explored the river that now bears his name.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This law protected the right of Christians to practice their religion in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that government should protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?