Geography
Native American Culture
Colonizing a New World
British North America
Transatlantic Slave Trade
French & Indian War
100
Describe the following landscape using descriptive vocabulary we learned in class.
Arid, rural
100
What word describes a society where property is inherited and familial bonds are traced through the mother's line?
Matrilineal
100
What are the three G's used to describe the intentions of early European colonizers (Spanish & Portuguese)?
1) God
2) Gold
3) Glory
100
What was the name for the Winter in Jamestown when colonists, in order to avoid starvation, turned to eating pets, leather, and even each other?
The Starving Time
100
What is the name used to describe crops that could be mass produce and sold for a high price?
Cash Crops
100
Who represented Virginia, leading a group of soldiers to confront the French over encroachment into English territory, resulting in a skirmish that kickstarted the 7 Years War?
George Washington
200
Describe the following landscape using descriptive vocabulary we learned in class.
Frigid, Seasonal, Urban
200
A word that describes an economic system where resources are traded directly without the use of money.
Barter System
200
Who were the first Europeans to "discover" the Americas, settling an area called Newfoundland?
The Vikings
200
Before English settlement, how did England obtain wealth from the New World?
Privateering
200
What is the name for the system of trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that dominated the 17th and 18th Century global economy?
Triangular Trade
200
What was the name of the territory that the English colonists wanted to settle because of its fertile soil, temperate climate, and location?
The Ohio River Valley
300
What was the name of the structure that members of the Iroquois Tribe lived in? (Great Lakes Region)
Longhouse
300
Word to describe a government that is controlled by religious leaders.
Theocracy
300
What was the name of the first permanent European settlement in North America, settled by Spain?
St. Augustine, Florida
300
Who were the two main groups that settled New England seeking religious freedom?
1) Pilgrims (Separatists)
2) Puritans (Reformers)
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300
What is the name for the system of slavery utilized by the Spanish, forcing enslaved peoples to work in fields, as well as in gold and silver mines, to the point of exhaustion and death.
Encomienda System
300
What was the name of the meeting where delegates from each of the Colonies met to organize the war effort against the French, establishing an alliance with the Iroquois Confederation?
The Albany Congress
400
What is a word that refers to the practice of supplying water from a water source to crops through human-made means in order to support farming.
Irrigation
400
Which Native American group is responsible for the creation of the world's oldest living democracy?
Iroquois Confederacy
400
What was the name of the group of Indigenous Americans that Columbus encountered after landing somewhere in the Bahamas?
The Taino
400
What was the name of the system of indentured servitude that was used in the Jamestown Colony prior to Bacon's Rebellion?
The Headright System
400
What is the racialized system of slavery that was utilized in North America, dictating that enslaved status is inherited from the mother?
Chattel Slavery
400
Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union at the Albany Congress, suggesting that the English colonies should unite under a legislative body?
Benjamin Franklin
500
What are the primary three crops that many Native American societies relied upon, and together, what are they referred to as?
Three Sisters
1) Corn
2) Beans
3) Squash
500
What word means to produce a surplus of something that is easily available so that it can then be traded for items that are more difficult to obtain in a given area?
Specialization
500
What is the name of the Spanish priest who spoke out against the brutality of the encomienda system in the New World, playing a major role in the spread of the Black Legend throughout Europe?
Bartolome' de las Casas
500
What is name of the Puritan leader who delivered the "City Upon a Hill" sermon, which acts as one of the earliest examples of American Exceptionalism?
John Winthrop
500
What is the name of the formerly enslaved man who became a prominent actor in the early abolitionist movement and wrote of his experience as an 11-year-old the brutal Middle Passage?
Olaudah Equiano
500
What was the name of the name of the Native American prophet whose ideas inspired Pontiac's Rebellion?
Prophet Neolin
1000
Name two tribes, one from two different regions that we learned about in class.
- Northeast (Mi’kmaq)
- Great Lakes (Iroquois)
- Midwest (Osage)
- Great Plains (Comanche)
- Great Basin (Paiute)
- Deep South (Cherokee)
- Southwest (Pueblo)
- California (Pomo)
- Pacific Northwest (Chinook)
1000
The belief that natural objects, animals, people, plants, bodies of water, and celestial bodies all have spirits or spiritual power.
Animism
1000
Excluding Portugal, who were the four primary European powers responsible for colonizing the Americas?
1) English
2) Spanish
3) French
4) Dutch
1000
What are the four theories that we uncovered during the Lost Colony Investigation that could explain the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Colony?
1) Wiped out by Native Americans
2) Wiped out by Spanish
3) Assimilated with Croatoan Tribe
4) Moved inland
1000
Name three disadvantages that enslaved Africans faced in North America making escape difficult.
1. Kept uneducated
2. Unfamiliar with terrain
3. Unarmed & exhausted
4. Brutal punishment
5. No representation in government
6. Difficulty blending in
7. Family bonds
1000
What were three contributing factors to colonial unrest following the French and Indian War?
1) Proclamation of 1763
2) Colonial unity
3) Taxation to cover war debts