Native Societies
This agricultural practice involved planting corn, beans, and squash together.
What is Three Sisters farming?
This explorer's 1492 voyage initiated sustained contact between Europe and the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term describes the widespread exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony was founded in 1607 and became Britain's first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Workers who agreed to labor for a specified number of years in exchange for passage to America were called these.
Who were indentured servants?
This Mesoamerican civilization built its capital at Tenochtitlan.
Who were the Aztecs?
This 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Potatoes, maize, and tomatoes were examples of these types of goods transferred from the Americas to Europe.
What are New World crops?
This region developed around religious communities founded largely by Puritans.
What is New England?
This system granted colonists land based on the number of people they brought to the colony.
What is the headright system?
This civilization built the famous city of Machu Picchu in the Andes.
Who were the Inca?
Spain's colonial system that granted colonists control over Native labor was called this.
What is the encomienda system?
This disease, brought by Europeans, devastated Native American populations.
What is smallpox?
William Penn founded this colony as a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia was led by Nathaniel Bacon.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Native societies in this region often developed complex irrigation systems because of the dry environment.
What is the Southwest?
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The introduction of American crops contributed to this major demographic development in Europe.
What is population growth?
Tobacco became the major cash crop in this colonial region.
What is the Chesapeake?
Bacon's Rebellion contributed to the Chesapeake colonies' increasing reliance on this labor system.
What is racial slavery / enslaved African labor?
This geographic feature is often associated with the migration of humans into the Americas during the last Ice Age.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
European exploration was motivated in part by the desire for "God, gold, and glory." Explain one of these motivations.
Religion, wealth, or national power/prestige
The Columbian Exchange had opposite demographic effects on Native Americans and Europeans. Explain.
Native populations declined dramatically from disease, while European populations increased partly because of improved food supplies.
Compare the economies of New England and the Chesapeake.
New England had small farms, fishing, trade, and shipbuilding; the Chesapeake relied heavily on plantation agriculture, especially tobacco.
Explain two reasons why plantation owners increasingly turned toward enslaved African labor in the late 1600s and early 1700s.
Declining availability of indentured servants, the desire for a permanent labor force, economic demand for plantation crops, and the development of racial slave codes.