S.P.E.G.
The labor force used by Southern Planters to maximize profits.
What is slave labor?
a popular Native American crop first grown by the Woodland Indians
What is Maize (Corn)?
the 3 'colonial regions' of pre-independence America
What is the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies?
reasons for European exploration
What is Religion, New trade routes, Silver & Gold, and raw materials?
History is the measure of
What is change?
Indigo, cotton, rice, and tobacco are examples of these grown in the Southern Colonies
What are Cash Crop?
disease that killed millions of Native Americans after the arrival of the Europeans
What is smallpox?
Colonial region considered the "breadbasket"
What are the Middle Colonies?
the lost colony
What is Roanoke?
There are how many geographic regions in SC
What is 6?
1st form of self-government in Colonial America
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The passage between Asia and North America where early Native Americans came to America
What is the Bering land bridge?
colonial region which was extremely religious
What is the New England Colonies?
South Carolina's first permanent settlement
What is Charlestown?
An important event that causes change
What is a turning point?
The economic system between Britain and their colonies.
What is mercantilism?
Which Native group lived here at the time of European contact
Who are the Mississippians?
Colonial group known for opposing violence and treating everyone equally
Who were the Quakers?
This was a long voyage that shipped slaves from Africa into the Americas. Disease and starvation prevented hundreds of slaves from completing the voyage
What is the Middle Passage?
another word for time periods
What is Periodization?
People who worked for 7 years to pay off debts
What is Indentured Servants?
Squash, beans, corn were called
What was the three sisters?
These colonies had a long growing season and mild climate which led to the development of a plantation economy
What is the Southern region?
These people were given the permission by the King and Queen of Spain to explore and conquer America, to spread Christianity in exchange for a cut of the treasure they found.
Who were the conquistadors?
Four categories that Historians use to measure time
What are social, political, economical, and geographical?