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The country that first explored, colonized, and took advantage of the Americas through claiming territiories, setting colonies, and exploiting land resources.
What is Spain?
An Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and is credited with discovering the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The first permanent establishment of an English settlement in North America. (Was a Colony)
What is Jamestown?
An economic system where private individuals and businesses controlled trade and production for profit.
What is Capitalism?
A disease brought by Europeans that had a devastating impact on Native American population.
What is Smallpox?
Established colonies in the Americas pursuing profitable ventures like tobacco farming, additionally they expanded their empire to compete with other European powers in the race for colonization.
What is England?
A Native American woman who played a role in the early English Colonization of Virginia.
Who is Pocahontas?
The conquest that allowed the Spanish to establish control and begin colonizing the region.
What is the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernan Cortes?
An economic theory and practice promoting governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the mere purpose of increasing its power and wealth.
What is Mercantilism?
An animal introduced from Europeans to the Natives during the Columbian Exchange that had a significant impact on the Native's societies for transportation and labor.
What are horses?
Focused on trading and establishing profitable trade routes, aswell as interested in spreading Catholicism and converting Natives to Christianity.
What is France?
An English explorer who helped start the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
Who is John Smith?
A massive transfer of various products between the Americas and Europe, where they traded things like plants, animals, and diseases.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
A labor system established by the Spanish in the Americas, where Spanish colonists gained land and Native American laborers in exchange for converting them to Christianity.
What is the Encomienda System?
An innovation that played a crucial role in enhancing navigation for sea voyagers during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, providing a reliable method to determine longitude.
What is a Compass?
Motive was to find a trade route to Asia and establish fur trading networks in North America, also wanted to challenge Spain and Portugal's dominance in the Americas.
What is Netherlands (Dutch)?
A religious dissenter who founded the colony of Rhode Island, advocating for religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
Who is Roger Williams?
Millions of Africans forcefully taken from their homes and brought to the Americas as slaves, significantly impacting development of the American colonies.
What is the Transatlantic slave trade?
Mediated by the Pope, an agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between them.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?
The three regions primarily involved in the Triangle Trade.
What are The British Colonies, West Africa, and the Caribbean?
Mainly only focused on also finding new trade routes to Asia, but particularly through the exploration of Africa.
What is Portugal?
A Native American who played a crucial role in helping the Pilgrims survive in Plymouth Colony by teaching them farming techniques.
Who is Squanto?
A conflict between the English settlers and Native American tribes in New England that resulted in the near destruction of the Pequot people.
What is The Pequot War in 1637?
An uprising of Pueblo Native Americans against Spanish colonizers (1680).
What is the Pope's Rebellion?
An agriculture technique widely used among Eastern Woodlands tribes before European colonization.
What is Slash-and-burn farming?