Pre-Colonial North America
Colorful Colonies
Grand Governance
Religious Zeal
Economics
Random APUSH Stuff
100
This crop enabled the Aztec Empire to grow and flourish.
What is maize or corn?
100
This highly profitable crop, introduced in Virginia in the 1620's by John Rolfe, much to the chagrin of the King who found an abhorrent habit, becomes a King crop in the Chesapeake region.
What is tobacco?
100
This was the first elected legislative body in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
100
These two people were banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for dissenting religious beliefs and their conflict with the Puritan clergy of the colony.
Who were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?
100
This region of colonies establishes itself with aid of fertile soil and prime geographic location and goes by this other name.
What are the "Breadbasket Colonies"?
100
This was the main cause of death among the hopeful colonists of Jamestown.
What is starvation?
200
These three G's were strong motivators for early explorers in the New World.
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
200
Carolina had a hospitable climate for this labor intensive crop, requiring the knowledge of its cultivators and became Carolina's main export.
What is rice?
200
This short but powerful document is born of necessity for people coming to colonize in North America and establishes a framework for further self-governance in the future. (hint: Think NE colonies)
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
This group of separatists leave England to find sanctuary in the Netherlands only to seek further refuge and isolation in North America.
Who are the Puritan separatists?
200
This clever system granted people acreage in some colonies, usually 50, if they paid for the passage of indentured servants from England to the colonies, leaving little financial opportunities for non-landowning folk.
What is the headright system?
200
Group of Scots-Irish who protested the lenient treatment of Natives by the Quakers, were violent at times.
What is the Paxton Boys?
300
This "meeting" of the Old and New Worlds, that included ideas, as well as flora and fauna, is known to historians as this term.
What is the Columbian Exchange.
300
This colorful character began a rebellion in the Virginia Colony after the seemingly corrupt Governor Berkley refused to allow an all out attack on nearby Native Americans; this rebel died of dysentery not living to see the results of his efforts.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
300
The colonies see the emergence of a new idea, freedom of the press, when sedition and libel are discussed in a court case, which the jury found the accused innocent.
What is the Zenger trial?
300
This colony was created as a Holy Experiment for an egalitarian religious sect by a sole proprietor.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
This route winds its way between western ports of Africa, to the Caribbean, and finally to southern North America carrying precious and captured cargo.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
New England saw a new sort of family because of the long life expectancy of its colonists; this type of family member becomes more viable.
What are grandparents?
400
This method of farming was successfully utilized by different cultures in North, Central, and South America.
What is three-sisters farming?
400
In what year was the colony of Plymouth founded?
What is 1620
400
This was the first written Constitution in the Americas.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
400
The colony of Massachusetts was a forerunner in establishing compulsory education among its population. This institution is one of its important legacies.
What is Harvard College?
400
The system of indentured servitude became difficult to maintain because people's desire for free will overpowered their desire to be indebted to others and as a result a new system of labor emerges on a larger scale in the colonies.
What is the slave labor economy?
400
These new laws of the sea began to be a source of smuggling in the colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
This particular type of ship changed travel on the high seas and was developed by this country.
What is Portugal?
500
The New England region was compromised of these colonies.
What is Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire?
500
This new movement among intellectuals in Europe greatly influenced the purpose and design of independence and self government. Thinkers such as John Locke had a great part in this.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
This man was an integral part in establishing an identity in the Massachusetts Colony, with speeches he shared with the colonists such as "The City Upon the Hill" that influence American identity today.
Who is John Winthrop?
500
Transatlantic trade between Africa, the Americas, and Europe where raw materials, manufactured goods and enslaved persons were traded.
What is triangular trade?
500
Name the man who is seen as the leader of the Great Awakening....
Who is George Whitefield?