New to Whom?
The original Lenape name for the island we are currently on.
What is Mannahatta?
What is Welikia?
Populated largely by this strict sect of Protestants.
Who are Puritans?
The Aztec Empire was spread over a large area mostly within the national borders of this modern country.
What is Mexico?
William Penn, the first Lord Proprietor of this colony which bears his name.
What is Pennsylvania?
Lasting from 1756-1763 the French & Indian War turned into a world war known as this.
What is the Seven Years' War?
The New York Times argues that this year is the most important in United States history, and marks its 400th anniversary with the debut of a major project.
What is 1619?
In 2018 Lenape people came to New York to perform what important ritual for the first time in 300 years?
What is a Pow Wow dance?
The biblical command from God that married couples should "Go forth and Multiply" would cause this major societal problem in New England.
What is overpopulation?
This ruthless conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Nieuw Amsterdam, once transferred from the Dutch, was renamed this.
What is New York?
This major rebellion in South Carolina by enslaved people was nearly successful in reaching Florida and freedom.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Disease spread by these animals was likely responsible for the deaths of millions of indigenous people.
What are pigs?
Conflicts over abortion and LGBT rights can be traced to earlier conflicts between these two movements.
What is Pietism and the Enlightenment?
Tomatoes, potatoes, avocados, chocolate, tobacco, were all eastward migrants in this process.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This state, originally settled by Catholics, was named after the English King's wife, Henrietta Maria.
What is Maryland?
This mostly peaceful revolution in England that replaced a Catholic king with the Protestant William of Orange, established a constitutional monarchy and an English Bill of Rights and was an inspiration for later American revolutionaries.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
After this rebellion involving indentured servants in Virginia, white elites lowered taxes for white farmers and bondage became exclusively black.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The valley of this famous American river was home to perhaps millions of native people, many living in fortified cities and towns, complete with temples and public buildings.
What is the Mississippi?
This man sparked the Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses on the doors of churches in Wittemburg, Germany, in 1519.
Who is Martin Luther?
Many conquistadors had spent time fighting against these people who had once crossed the strait of Gibraltar and ruled Spain.
Who are Muslims?
Moors, Arabs?
Illegal settlers in the western parts of the middle colonies became known as this.
What are squatters?
This philosophy popular with many Founders holds that a Creator God made the world, but has then left it alone.
What is Deism?
By the start of the civil war, this fibrous crop would eventually make up 60% of American exports.
What is cotton?
From the Latin words genus -- "people" + cide "to kill", this word is used to describe the mass murder of indigenous Americans.
What is genocide?
This colony, originally called Providence Plantations, was founded by Roger Williams as a more open alternative to the strict Plymouth colony.
What is Rhode Island?
After the collapse of the Aztec Empire, Spanish conquistators were granted control over land and Native peoples through this new system.
What is encomienda?
This city, whose name means "Brotherly Love", was the colonies' largest until New York took over in the early 1800s.
What is Philadelphia?
A protectionist economic policy in which a colonial power forces its colonies in exclusive trade.
What is mercantilism?
Members of this religious order were usually opposed to slavery
Who are the Quakers?
Like many eastern woodlands peoples, a Lenape person inherited their customs, belongings, etc. through their mother, not their father, because Lenape society was this.
What is matriarchal?
Traveling revivalist preachers known by this "i" word.
What is itinerant?
Besides disease, the Spaniards used this tactic employing Aztec enemies to defeat Moctezuma.
What is divide-and-conquer?
Many German immigrants came and worked off their passage through this system.
What is the redemptioner system?
This British policy towards its colonies meant that often trade laws were unenforced in order to keep the economy healthy.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This foundational document's "all Men are created equal," stood in stark contrast to the realities of American slavery.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Lenape language is a member of this larger language family.
What is Algonquian?
What is public education?
This Spanish priest wrote extensively about the atrocities he witnessed being committed against native peoples.
Who is De Las Casas?
This famous Pennsylvanian's face graces the $100 bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Acadian French were banished from Canada and settled mostly in this balmy region.
What is Louisiana?
New Orleans, LA?
A major commodity traded for slaves in West and Central Africa.
What are guns?
These people, which include the Oneida, the Onondaga, and the Seneca, organized an early form of democracy by confederating in what is now upstate New York.
Who are the Iroquois?
This woman was accused of witchcraft and banished from Massachusetts for preaching.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This aggressive and threatening document was read aloud in Spanish to native peoples.
What is the Requerimiento (Requirement)?
New Yorkers rented their land (and still rent their property) under this principle.
What is tenancy?
Disagreements between Britain and its American colonies increased after the French & Indian War when the British wanted the colonists to pay these obligations.
What are debts?
Taxes?
In 1691 this people's assembly in Virginia was the first to legally define white people.
What is the House of Burgesses?