First Humans
the theory that humans crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America
What is the Bering Strait theory?
It was the movement of new goods, diseases and foods from Europe to North America and vice versa.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The French traded this with the Huron so that they could send it to Europe to make hats.
What are beaver furs?
the son of a chief who grows up with the English and later gathers allies to resist colonization.
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
a unified rebellion made up of enslaved Africans, indentured and freed British.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
the movement of ships and migration of humans down the west coast of North America
What was the coastal migration theory?
Who was Marina (Malinche)?
a route to Asia that the Dutch, French, Spanish and British were all looking for.
What was the Northwest Passage?
a brutal attack by the Puritans and their Native allies against the Pequots in 1637
What was the Mystic Massacre?
a young princess who becomes her father's ambassador with the English
Who was Pocahontas?
the 3 main agricultural crops of North American indigenous societies.
What are corn, beans and squash?
The Emperor of the Aztecs who has long been thought of as surrendering to Cortes.
Who was Montezuma?
The Dutch colonized this place even though they had a booming economy and strong trade with Indonesia.
What was New Amsterdam?
John Winthrop named his colony this because he wanted everyone to admire it as an ideal city.
What is the "City on a Hill"?
The population of Jamestown before Bacon's Rebellion included "six parts of seven at least are Poor, Indebted, Discontented, and..."
one of the largest indigenous cities in North America before colonization
What is Cahokia?
What was Tenochtitlan?
What is Spain?
They formed an alliance with the Wampanoag and celebrated "Thanksgiving" after their first successful harvest.
Who were the Pilgrims?
the shift from a society with slaves to a slave society
What was the Terrible Transformation?
a source that is from that time period, used in historical analysis
What is a primary source?
the plots of land given to conquistadors and Aztec nobility
What are encomiendas?
one of the first French explorers to travel down the St. Lawrence River
Who was Cartier?
defiance
What was something the Puritans feared?
this determined a child's status based on if the mother was enslaved or free
Virginia Slave Code Law