Native Societies & Early Encounters
This Caribbean Native group was one of the first to encounter Spanish explorers.
Who are the Taíno?
Spain and Portugal were motivated to explore partly because of this desire.
What is gold/acquisition of wealth?
The first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
A labor system where workers traded labor for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
The war between Britain and France that increased tensions between Britain and the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This exchange brought crops, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This term describes people of mixed European and Native American ancestry in Spanish colonies.
What is mestizo?
The English company created to fund and run Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company?
The deadly ocean journey enslaved Africans were forced to endure.
What is the Middle Passage?
A British law that taxed printed materials and angered colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
A major negative effect of European contact on Native Americans caused by contagions and spreading rapidly across the continent over time.
What is Smallpox?
These voyages connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas and reshaped world trade.
What are transatlantic voyages or triangular trade?
This 1619 assembly was the first representative government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through trade.
What is triangular trade?
The 1776 document that explained why the colonies were breaking away from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Spanish system that forced Native Americans to work for colonists in exchange for “protection.”
What is the encomienda system?
This former enslaved African wrote about the horrors of slavery in his autobiography.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
A 1620 agreement that established self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
British laws that limited colonial trade to benefit England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The battle considered the turning point of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
A rebellion led by Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley after the French and Indian War.
What is Pontiac’s Rebellion?
Spanish culture in the Americas was influenced by earlier contact between Christianity and this religion.
What is Islam?
A 1676 uprising caused by tensions between poor farmers and Virginia’s elite.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
A law change in colonial Virginia that changed the status of enslaved children to status inherited from this.
What is their mother?
This addition to the Constitution protected individual liberties like speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?