Native American Societies
What is a Matriarchal society
through the mother
This economic system enslaved natives to commonly work in the mines.
What is the Encomienda System?
What is Jamestown?
This Portuguese explorers who sailed around Africa to find another way to the Indies
de gama
dias
An individual who spoke up for the spanish cruelty against the Natives
De las casas
Native American tribe that was located in what is now Mexico City
aztecs
3 reasons for Spanish colonization
What is the Three G's? (Gold, Glory, and God)
The French mostly focused on this when colonizing North America
What is the Fur Trade?
native american revolt on the eastern coast
Metacom's (king phillips) war
This exchange of goods between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Native American Group live in arid climates and relied on maize for survival.
Who are the Southwest Native Americans? (Will also take Pueblo and Navajo)
This was the biggest reason the Spanish were to conquer as they did
What is disease?
This was famously considered the "lost colony"
What is the Roanoke Colony?
pueblos w/ irrigation
eastern woodlands with woods
Mississippian w/ river valleys
This labor service was used to get poor whites working for wealthy land-owners
What is Indentured Servitude?
crop that helped sustain many early native american tribes
maize
Triangular trade
trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
crop that saved Jamestown
What is Tobacco?
This person took control over Jamestown after settling
Who is John Smith?
This group settled the New England colonies for religious reasons
pilgrims
puritans
event where natives overthrew the Spanish for over a decade in the southwest
pueblo revolt
legislative governing body in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?
name for spanish social system in the colonies
casta system
headright system
promised 50 acres of land to each male who came over and for each family member