Dates
Hernan Cortez and his army charged the walls of Tenochtitlan on this date?
1519
The corporation of capturing people and selling them for profit.
What is the slave trade.
Plantations
a place where large quantities of slaves would live and work to create a product. Ex: sugar, corn, tobacco.
People that believed the Church of England was hypocritical. They started their own systems of belief.
Separatists
Why did Europeans want to find a sea route to Asia?
Traveling by sea was faster than on land. Asia had luxurious goods like rugs, tea, and porcelain.
On this date only 18 members of the original 270 crew and Ferdinand Magellan, survived the three-year journey to sail across the world.
1522
Where did the largest population of slaves come from between the mid 1400s and the mid 1800s?
The African Gold coast.
Colombian Exchange
The system of transferring plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic.
These are explorers who made their way to the Americas seeking land and riches for Spain.
Conquistadors
How were the colonists of Jamestown similar to the colonists of Plymouth?
Each group was seeking a new home and both had great difficulties surviving the new world. Each had to form a relationship with the Indigenous people.
When did Christopher Columbus leave Portugal to navigate a faster way to reach India?
1492
Where did the majority of slaves go in the height of the slave trade?
The majority went to Central and South America.
House of Burgesses
The Spanish established these places with the intention of converting the local natives to Christianity.
Missions
How were the colonists of Jamestown different from the colonists of Plymouth?
The colonists of Jamestown were motivated by the business of the Virginia Company. They grew Tobacco and created the House of Burgesses. The Pilgrims were Separatists motivated by the fear of prosecution by the Church of England. The new world would have given them the freedom to exercise their Puritan beliefs
St. Augustine, modern day Florida, was established by the Spanish on this date?
1565
Why was the slave trade so successful in the East Indies and South America.
Sugarcane was a very profitable product from the Spanish and Portuguese. Slaves were free labor to harvest and process the highly demanded plant.
Montezuma
Jamestown didn't find gold in modern day Virginia; however, they did find this.
Tobacco
What were the early interactions between the Europeans and the native tribes like?
Europeans brought a lot of diseases that killed the Indigenous populations. There were conflicts over land. the Spanish established missions to convert the Indians to Christianity. However, there is record of the native tribes helping colonists survive the challenges of the new world.
Jamestown was settled by the Virgina Company on this date?
1607
How did the first African slaves get to Jamestown?
English pirates raided a slave ship bound for Columbia. The Pirates sold them to the settlers for supplies.
Athalupa
Wampanoag
What is the Mayflower Compact? Why is it important?
The Mayflower Compact was a set of laws and guidelines on how the Pilgrims would follow. It is important because it was intended to align with the goals of the colonists.