VOCABULARY
Spanish explorers and conquerors in the new world are called what?
Who are conquistadors?
Who sailed on a voyage in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This system became the first slave system in the New World called what?
What is Encomienda or “Entrusted” system?
System where cash crops were traded to Europe, manufacture goods to Africa, and slaves to America
What was Triangular Trade?
These investors came to the US and established a land that later became New York
Who were the Dutch?
Native Americans built societies around what crop?
What is Maize?
This town was established in 1607
What is Jamestown?
In 1519 Hernan Cortez, a Spanish conquistador, began his war against who?
Who are the Aztecs?
This was the primary cause of death of Native Americans
What is disease?
The blending of cultures and religions
What is syncretism?
What disease was introduced to the Americas by Europeans?
What is Smallpox?
The English settlers of Roanoke became known as
What is the Lost Colony?
What was a common expression used by European colonists exploring the Americas?
What is “God, Gold and Glory?”
The Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade during this war
What were the Beaver Wars?
A system of religious settlements established by the Spanish to convert and control Native Americans.
What is the Spanish Mission System?
Was a slave for ten years before buying his own freedom and publishing the book, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of _______ ________”
Who was Olauduh Equiano?
Enslaved Africans were forcibly transported from West Africa to the Americas and faced harsh conditions on board
What was the Middle Passage?
This company was responsible for the establishment of Jamestown
What is the Virginia Company?
The exchange of goods, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
What is Columbian Exchange?
The colonies settled here because the climate and soil were well-suited to tobacco cultivation.
What is Chesapeake Bay?
The first English person to circumvent the globe
Who is Francis Drake?
In 1525 the first shipment of what arrived to America?
What are African Slaves?
This chief allowed the English to build Jamestown
Who is King Powhatan?
This crop was introduced to Europe as a cure and later became a stimulant
What is tobacco?
What alliance formed in 1660 to protect themselves from Europeans?
What is the Iroquois Alliance?