Vocabulary & Key Terms
A settlement ruled by a distant nation.
What is a colony?
The three categories of colonial motives are better known by these three G's.
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
What is Catholicism?
The Pilgrims are also known as this word beginning with S:
What are Separatists?
These colonies were known for rocky soil, shipbuilding, and Puritan communities.
What were the New England Colonies?
A powerful nation that controls colonies.
This disease ravaged Europe, leading to the end of the feudal system.
What is the Bubonic Plague? (Or, what is the Black Death?)
This indigenous civilization of Mexico was wiped out by conquistador Hernan Cortez.
What are the Aztecs?
This contract created a form of self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These colonies were called the “breadbasket colonies” for their grain production.
What were the Middle Colonies?
Tobacco is an example of this type of crop.
What is a cash crop?
England and Spain competing for land to use as military bases in the Americas is an example of this type of motive.
What is Glory? (Or, what is a political motive?)
This colony was Spain's first permanent colony in the Americas.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
The last colony to join the 13 colonies:
What is Georgia?
These colonies were founded last and relied on enslaved labor to work agriculture.
What are the Southern Colonies?
After 1492, this two-way transfer of plants, animals, and diseases began.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is God? (Or, what is an ideological motive?)
Columbus landed in the Bahamas and then Hispaniola in this year.
What is 1492?
The "Starving Times" for the Jamestown Colony lasted from: (year to year)
When is 1609-1610?
The geographic location of the Pueblo peoples.
What is present-day New Mexico?
This 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Columbus' motive for forcing the Taino people to work under threat of severe punishment best matches this motive.
What is Gold? (Or, what is an economic motive?)
These are the names of Columbus' three ships.
What are the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
This brutal conflict (1675-76) in New England took place between Native American tribes and English colonists.
What is King Philip's War?
The indigenous people of this region of the present-day U.S. fished for salmon, lived in plank houses, and are known for their totem poles and skilled canoe-building.
What is the Northwest region?