The system of trade exchanged between the old and new worlds
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
The first English colony in the Americas that disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
100
Added about 828,000 square miles of land to the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
Landed in the Bahamas in 1492
Who is Christopher Colombus?
100
Whoever paid the passage for the servants would receive 50 acres of land
What is the headright system?
200
Conquistadors
Who were the conquerors of the New World?
200
An excerpt from George Percy detailing the horrors of the Jamestown settlement.
What is "The Starving Time?"
200
People who wanted to expand into Canada not just Louisiana
What are "war hawks?"
200
Sent by the British to Fort Necessity
Who is George Washington?
200
A type of church membership that admitted people to the church who were not "fully converted"
What is the half-way covenant?
300
A system where the Europeans Christianized and protected the Indians in exchange for their labor.
What is the encomienda system?
300
House of Burgesses
What is the first example of representative self-government?
300
Shawnee Chief who tried to create a N.A Confederation to stop American colonization of their land, backed by the British
Who is Tecemseh?
300
The first massive social movement in America
What is the Great Awakening?
300
A meeting of representatives of half the British colonies, to discuss relations with the Native Americans to boost alliances against the French.
What is the Albany Congress?
400
An event where Indian rebels destroyed Spanish churches and killed over 400 priests.
What is Popes Rebellion (or the Pueblo Revolt?)
400
Protestant Reformation
What event happened in Europe that influenced cross-oceanic settlement in the Americas?
400
The three sectors that were impacted by the Market Revolution
What is communication, transportation, and industry?
400
A colonial governor who refused to protect his colonists from Native American attacks because he had a fur trade monopoly with a local tribe.
Who is William Berkeley?
400
A type of government system where power flowed from the people, not monarchs
What is a republic?
500
The legend says that the conquerors merely tortured and butchered the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left misery in their wake.
What is the Black Legend?
500
The Great Migration
What influenced settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
500
The president who "sparked" the Mexican American War
Who is James K. Polk?
500
An event that established the precedent of "freedom of press" in America
What is the Zenger Trial?
500
9 Colonies sent delegates to NY who wrote a petition and sent it to the British Government-stated only the colonies themselves had the right to tax themselves