Diverse Cultures
This was the leading cause of death among indigenous people in the Americas after the arrival of European settlers.
What is disease?
This cash crop saved the early colonists in both the middle and southern colonies (no so much Massachusetts).
What was tobacco?
This region saw the most use of slavery to the point where giving it up would ruin the economy that had been built.
What was the South?
Treaties between colonists and indigenous leaders always favored this side. (no steals)
Who were the colonists...duh?
This word is used to describe a community of people living in a certain place - it also has connotations that that place did not belong to them.
What is settlement?
True/False (no steals): A universal trait among indigenous cultures was the importance of the land (and plants, and animals) and it belonging to everyone and no one.
Truth.
This was the primary goal of most early European settlers.
What was $$$$? (for their shareholders)
The largest and most violent uprising of the enslaved in the British Colonies.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
One of the most important positive adaptations by indigenous peoples in response to the arrival of European settlers was the introduction of this animal.
What were horses?
The Iroquois Confederacy is an example of this.
What is a coalition?
These were some of the uses of tobacco by indigenous peoples in the Americas. (name at least three, 100 points each, up to 500!)
What are: religious ceremony, medicine, gifts, peace offering, communing with spirits, etc.
This was the colonial region originally established as a "City on the Hill" to be an example of religious morality.
What was New England (or Massachusetts, or Plymouth)?
Before slavery became commonplace in the colonies, labor was mostly done by these almost-slaves.
Who were indentured servants?
This is the common term for the Six Nations that formed the Haudenosaunee.
What is Iroquois?
This was the most common form (category) of resistance by the enslaved in the colonies.
What was covert resistance?
These staple crops are commonly known as the Three Sisters.
This was the name of the first English Settlement in the Americas (that didn't all die).
What was Jamestown?
The term for portion of the triangle trade that was the long and deadly voyage from Africa to the "New" World.
What was the "middle passage?"
What was King Philip's War?
This is a term for the results of an action (both good or bad).
What is consequences? (I know the grammar is awkward).
Name FIVE tribes from your region (from the first project). 100 points each, no local MN/WI tribes (sorry).
I will check them...
Now part of Thanksgiving mythology, this was the native leader who saved the Pilgrims and later died from diseases they brought to the new world.
Who was Squanto?
Jemmy (or Cato) the leader of the Stono Rebellion was most likely from this country in Africa.
What was the Kingdom of Kongo?
He was the (probably mythological) spiritual founder of the Great Law of Peace.
Who was Hiawatha?
This term describes when someone crosses a line (literal or metaphorical).
What is encroachment?