Native Americans pre-conquest
Explains the growth in Native settlements before 1492
What is the spread of maize cultivation?
The transmission and interchange of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, human populations, and technologies between the New World and Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
European colonies where there was little to no evangelism
What are England and the Netherlands?
1st permanent English settlement is established in VA
What is Jamestown?
Regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy by restricting trade between colonies. English colonist often smuggled goods to get around this restriction
What is Navigation Acts?
the first "Americans" came over via this landmass
What is the Bering Strait?
stimulated European curiosity about the outside world, led to intellectual and economic transfers beg. in the 1100s
What are the Crusades?
One characteristic common to BOTH French & Dutch colonies in the Americas
What is the fur trade OR generally peaceful relations with the Natives?
Massachusetts (ships, lumber, fishing)
New Hampshire (ships, livestock, lumber)
Connecticut (rum, iron, shipbuilding)
Rhode Island (livestock)
What are the New England colonies?
What are Connecticut & Rhode Island?
Tribe in Central Mexico, Capital city of Tenochitlan, performed human sacrifice rituals.
Who are the Aztec?
Property differences between the Europeans and the Indians
What is tribal vs. individual ownership?
The large number of African slaves in Brazil and the Caribbean can be attributed largely to this
What is the growth of sugar plantations?
Virginia (tobacco, wheat, cattle)
Maryland (tobacco, wheat)
North Carolina (tobacco, furs)
South Carolina (rice, indigo, silk)
Georgia
What are the Southern colonies?
The first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in Colony of Virginia in 1619, first instance of a democratic political system
What is the House of Burgesses?
the three staple crops that many native tribes in North America used ... Name 2 of 3
What are Beans, Corn, and Squash?
involved a grant of land to a Spanish settler which came with forced labor by the Indians, eventually abolished after Indian revolts & protests by priests such as de las Casas
What is the encomienda?
English dissenters from this church founded several colonies in North America, such as Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, & Pennsylvania
What is the Anglican Church? OR Church of England
First enslaved people arrive in VA via this route.
What is the Middle Passage?
Religious revival occurring in 1730 that resulted in the first unifying experience for the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
Five (later six) Northeastern Indian tribes formed this loose alliance around 1450
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
the first European circumnavigation of Africa was completed in 1497 by a voyage led by this Portuguese sailor
Who is da Gama?
Main weakness of New France & Louisiana
What is a small population that was spread to thin, and thus could not defend from outside attack etc.?
This rebellion in 1676 marks the beginning of the end of indentured servitude
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
this event ended French influence in North America and set the stage for the imperial crisis - which later led to a rebellion in the American colonies
What is the French & Indian War or Seven Years War?