Shaped by the Land
This is the main reason Indigenous societies across North America developed such different economies and ways of life before European arrival.
What is adaptation to their environment/available resources?
This cash crop made Jamestown profitable.
What is tobacco?
This document was signed aboard ship to establish government for Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Indigenous nation cooperated with the English at the 1621 harvest celebration in Plymouth.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This type of worker served for a fixed period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
These three West African empires grew powerful through trade.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
This earlier English colony disappeared before Jamestown was founded.
What is Roanoke?
This town depended economically on this other town, sparking tension in 1692 Massachusetts.
What are Salem Village and Salem Town?
This Indigenous nation was the target of the Mystic Massacre.
Who are the Pequot?
This term describes slavery that is permanent, hereditary, and based on race.
What is chattel slavery?
This ruler of Mali took a famous pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This system gave land to colonists who paid for a worker's passage to the colonies.
What is the headright system?
This rebellion in Virginia (1676) involved conflict over Indigenous land and colonial government policy.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This war (1675–1676) was fought between New England colonists and Indigenous nations.
What is King Philip's War?
This colony passed laws over several decades that increasingly restricted the rights of Africans and their descendants.
What is Virginia?
This is what West African rulers were able to do with the wealth they gained from controlling trade routes.
What is strengthen their government and influence?
This is what wealthy colonists were able to do because of the headright system.
What is gain large amounts of land?
This is one reason Edward Winslow's account of the 1621 harvest celebration is a limited historical source.
What is that it only shows the English colonial perspective?
This is the shared theme connecting King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion.
What is tension over Indigenous land and colonial government responses to expansion?
This 1739 South Carolina rebellion involved enslaved people organizing armed resistance.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
These three factors shaped why the colonies developed different regional economies.
What are geography, climate, and available resources?
Tobacco sent to England in exchange for English manufactured goods is an example of this economic system.
What is mercantilism?
This is the connection between Salem Village's economic dependence on Salem Town and the witch trials.
What is that the tension it created helped set the stage for accusations/conflict in the community?
This is what comparing the 1621 harvest celebration to later events like the Mystic Massacre and King Philip's War shows about colonist-Indigenous relations.
What is that relationships shifted from cooperation to conflict as competition over land grew?
This is what the Stono Rebellion shows about enslaved people, even under harsh colonial laws.
What is that they still found ways to resist?