13 Colonies
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
The resource Christopher Columbus was after in the Americas
What is gold?
What was the major cause of death for Native Americans after European contact?
disease
The name of the route that transported slaves from West Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
Who was the leader of 'Bacon's Rebellion'?
Nathaniel Bacon
What is a cash crop?
any agricultural product grown specifically to be sold for profit in the market
Name one major Empire in South America prior to European contact.
Maya, Aztec, Inca
What was the name of the young girl captured by Jamestown officials?
Pocahontas
What types goods were traded from the Americas to Europe?
Raw/Natural Resources
What were the Middle Colonies referred to as, because of the amount of wheat they grew?
The breadbasket colonies
What are examples of Push and Pull factors for settlers coming to the Americas?
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Where was Columbus originally planning to go on his voyage?
India
What did the Huron Native Americans help the French hunt?
beavers, beaver fur
What are Plantations?
What was the name of the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
What form of government did the The Massachusetts Bay Colony introduce to the Americas?
Representative government
What group did the conquistador Hernan Cortez conquer?
The Aztecs
Groups whose ancestors were the original inhabitants of a specific place or region before it was colonized or settled by other ethnic groups
Indigenous
A labor system where an individual commits to working for a master for a set period, and at the end of the contract gets a sum of money or property known as "freedom dues"
Indentured Servitude
Where was Christopher Columbus born?
Genoa, Italy
The name of the Company that started the Jamestown settlement
What is the Virginia Company?
Refers to the contact and trade of new ideas, goods, and disease, between the old and new worlds
Columbian Exchange
The Native American group that was first contacted by Columbus
What are the Arawaks?
Name the 5 European countries involved in the slave trade
Portuguese, British, French, Spanish, and Dutch
An event in Spain that aimed to enforce Catholic orthodoxy through investigations, torture, imprisonment, and execution of suspected heretics