Native American Societies
Exploration & Colonization
Slavery & Trade
Ideas & Beliefs
Wars & Rebellions
100

This crop, also called maize, was the most important food grown by many Native American groups.

What is corn?

100

In 1492, this man sailed the ocean blue.

Who was Christopher Columbus

100

The route enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Middle Passage?

100

Spanish priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans.

Who was Bartolomé de las Casas?

100

Native American revolt against the Spanish in 1680.

What was the Pueblo Revolt?

200

The Iroquois lived in these large houses made of wood and bark.

What are longhouses?

200

The Columbian Exchange brought new foods and animals between these two continents.

What are Europe and the Americas?

200

The three-way trade system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is the Triangular Trade?

200

Pilgrims signed this agreement before landing at Plymouth Rock.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

200

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

300

Tribes in the Plains of North America used this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.

What is the buffalo?

300

Spanish forced-labor system that used Native Americans.

What is the encomienda system?

300

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?

300

Puritan woman who challenged religious leaders in Massachusetts Bay.

Who was Anne Hutchinson?

300

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

400

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?

400

Jamestown was successful because they cultivated this lucrative  cash crop.

What is tobacco?

400

Sneak Peak: This rebellion in Virginia in 1676 showed tension between poor farmers and the colonial elite.

What was Bacon’s Rebellion?

400

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?

400

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

500

The Pueblo people in the Southwest built these systems to bring water to their farms in the desert.

What are irrigation systems?

500

This word means when one country or group has major power and influence over others, often controlling politics, culture, or economics.

What is hegemony?

500

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?

500

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?

500

Sneak Peak: The United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end this war in 1945. 

What is World War II