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?
During the 1700s, this colonial region's economy required larger numbers of laborers for cash crops.
What was the South? or Southern colonies?
This region was so resource rich that Native Americans had densely populated, permanent settlements but got most of their resources from hunting and gathering, NOT farming
What was California/Northwest Coast?
This was the primary goal of most early European settlers, especially in the middle colonies.
What was $$$$? (for their shareholders)
The largest and most violent uprising of the enslaved in the British Colonies.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
One of the most important positive adaptations by indigenous peoples in response to the arrival of European settlers was the introduction of this animal.
What were horses?
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is an example of this type of government (which would also become the future United States model).
What is a democracy?
The colonists changed the indigenous uses of tobacco for religious ceremony, medicine, gifts, peace offering, etc. to this instead.
What was profit ($$$$$)?
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 name for the form of government and also the founding document of the Five (then Six) Nations that formed the Haudenosaunee.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
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.
Prior to European colonization most indigenous peoples had this type of relationship with the land.
1. Ownership (private property)
2. Stewadship (protection)
3. None (they were nomadic and always moving)
What was stewardship?
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?
Most indentured servants brought to the British colonies were from this category of people.
(i.e. rich/poor, men/women, skilled/unskilled workers)
What were poor, unskilled, men (and criminals)?
Indigenous people of this region built thick walled adobe houses or lived in canyon settlements.
What was the Southwest?
French and English conflict over control of North American territory led to this war. (The Colonial name)
What was the French and Indian War?
This region of the Americas saw the most enslaved peoples shipped to it by way of the Triangle trade, mostly exporting sugar cane.
What was the Caribbean?
He was the (probably mythological) spiritual founder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Who was Hiawatha?
This was the population of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans.
What was 'we have no idea' or 'historians can't agree on a number'?