This crop, also called maize, was the most important food grown by many Native American groups.
What is corn?
In 1492, this man sailed the ocean blue.
Who was Christopher Columbus
The route enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
Spanish priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who was Bartolomé de las Casas?
Native American revolt against the Spanish in 1680.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
The Iroquois lived in these large houses made of wood and bark.
What are longhouses?
The Columbian Exchange brought new foods and animals between these two continents.
What are Europe and the Americas?
The three-way trade system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Pilgrims signed this agreement before landing at Plymouth Rock.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Sneak Peak: The 13 colonies became the United States of America as a result of this eight year war.
What is the American Revolution or the American War for Independence
Tribes in the Plains of North America used this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the buffalo?
Spanish forced-labor system that used Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
This economic system said colonies existed mainly to make the “mother country” rich by sending it raw materials and buying its goods.
What is mercantilism?
Puritan woman who challenged religious leaders in Massachusetts Bay.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
The English Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution in Britain led Britain to take this policy on the colonies... No wonder the colonies felt independent
What is Salutary neglect
Many Native American groups, like the Iroquois and Pueblo, practiced this type of farming where they grew just enough food for their families.
What is subsistence farming?
Jamestown was successful because they cultivated this lucrative cash crop.
What is tobacco?
Sneak Peak: This rebellion in Virginia in 1676 showed tension between poor farmers and the colonial elite.
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
This Enlightenment thinker said people have “natural rights” to life, liberty, and property. The United States then based it's Constitution on those principles.
Who was John Locke?
Sneak Peak. The following Amendments were added to the Constitution as a result of this war
13 - No Slavery
14 - Citizenship for all races
15 - Right to vote
What is the civil War
The Pueblo people in the Southwest built these systems to bring water to their farms in the desert.
What are irrigation systems?
This word means when one country or group has major power and influence over others, often controlling politics, culture, or economics.
What is hegemony?
Although many people think of the South when they hear about slavery, this colony and future state also relied on enslaved labor, where enslaved Africans worked on docks, in households, and in construction.... Until 1827 when slavery was abolished.
What is New York?
Sneak Peak: In this type of government, people don’t vote on every law themselves. Instead, they choose leaders to make decisions and laws for them.
What is a representative democracy?
Sneak Peak: The United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end this war in 1945.
What is World War II