Indigenous America & First Contact
This large Indigenous city near the Mississippi River contained monumental earthen mounds and demonstrates the complexity of pre-Columbian North American societies.
What is Cahokia?
This term describes the movement of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following European contact.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
"_____, God, and Gold" is the famous phrase used to summarize Spanish motivations for colonization.
What is Glory?
The Pueblo Revolt was partly a response to Spanish attempts to suppress these two aspects of Pueblo life. (name one)
What are religion and culture?
This characteristic had the largest impact on the development of different Native American societies, as well as the development of different British Colonial Regions.
What is geography?
In 1492, this explorer crossed the Atlantic under the sponsorship of Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This animal had a massive, transformational effect on Native American societies.
What is the horse?
This Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This labor system required workers to labor for a set period of time, often in exchange for transportation to the colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
This type of agriculture quickly took hold in the Southern British Colonies.
What is plantation agriculture?
These are perhaps Cahokia's most defining feature.
What are earthen mounds?
Sugar Cane moved in this direction during the Columbian Exchange.
What is from the Eastern Hemisphere/Europe to the Western Hemisphere/Americas?
Founded in 1607, this settlement was established by the Virginia Company as a business venture.
What is Jamestown?
This 1676 Virginia uprising is important because its aftermath contributed to changes in colonial labor systems and increased reliance on enslaved African labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Two examples of violent Native American resistance in New England include The ____________ War and King Philip's War.
What is Pequot?
Columbus first landed in an island group that is today known by this name.
What are the Bahamas?
This disease caused the most death amongst the Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
Spanish colonization often emphasized conquest, while French colonies often formed these with Native Americans.
What are alliances?
The development of laws and social practices that increasingly divided colonial society into categories such as "white" and "Black" is known by this term.
What is racial formation?
This term translates from Spanish to English as "Conqueror."
Conquistador
Geography, climate, natural resources, and agriculture all help explain why Indigenous peoples developed cultural _____________ across the Americas.
What is diversity?
European diseases were particularly devastating to Indigenous communities primarily because Indigenous peoples lacked this.
What is previous immunity to the diseases?
This cash crop eventually made Jamestown commercially successful and increased the demand for both land and labor.
What is tobacco?
This Indigenous leader played an important role in organizing the Pueblo Revolt.
Who is Popé (Po'pay)?
This religious group was closely associated with the New England Colonies.
Who are the Puritans?