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100
This was the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago
What is Bering Strait
100
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
100

This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I

salutary neglect

100
This complex economic system dictated that a country should export more than it imports and build up its gold/silver reserves
What is Mercantilism
100

Europeans came to the Americas for three main things...

God, Gold, Glory

200
This country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
What is France
200
This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
The name given to the interaction between North, Central, South America and the West Indies, Africa and Europe
What is Columbian Exchange
200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
200
This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
What is Encomienda
300
This country settled primarily in modern day Brazil and many other parts of South America, establishing one of the greatest slave societies in the world
What is Portugal
300
English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors
What are the Navigation Acts
300

A system of trade between Africa, the Caribbean, and American colonies that involved slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods.

Triangular Trade

300
This group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century
Who are the Puritans
300

Spanish soldiers who conquered Indian civilizations.

conquistadors

400

Infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish that devastated native populations.

Small Pox

400
This group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York
Who are the Iroquois
400

The first social contract for a New England colony. Drafted and signed by 41 adult male Separatists fleeing religious persecution by King James of England. Granted political rights to all male colonists who would abide by the colony’s laws.

Mayflower Compact, 1620

400

An elected lawmaking body, established by the Virginia Company to allow representative government in Virginia.

House of Burgesses, 1619

400

Spaniard who fought against the enslavement and colonial abuse of native Americans.

Bartolomé de Las Casas

500
This labor intensive, yet profitable crop was grown in South Carolina and other areas of the south in the early and mid-18th century - leading to an explosion in the slave population of the colonies
What is rice
500

First attempt by the English to establish a colony in America. The settlers on this island, which is located off the coast of North Carolina, managed badly and when an expedition with supplies arrived in 1590, the colonists were gone. What happened to the colonists remains a mystery.

Roanoke, 1586

500
This term is used to describe the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans
What is the Middle Passage
500

System of labor in which a company or individual paid a person’s passage to America in return for a contract of repayment through servitude (usually seven years).

Indentured servitude

500

name of the hierarchical structure established by the Spaniards

caste system