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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

The first written governing document in British colonies in North America developed by the Pilgrims.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

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
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
What is sugar
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 traditional Native American agricultural practice where corn, beans, and squash are planted together in a mutually beneficial way

What is three-sisters farming?

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
This Native American fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most Native Americans had either been killed off by disease or displaced
Who is King Philip or Metacom
400

A group of investors who received a charter to create a colony in the New World for profit

What is a joint-stock company? 

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

These three terms are often considered the motivating factors for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

What is God, Glory, & Gold?

400
This system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival
What is the headright system
400
This group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that all people (Native Americans, Africans etc.) were holy
Who are the Quakers
500

Brought to Jamestown by John Rolfe, the cultivation of this cash crop saved the colony, and became the staple cash crop of the Southern colonial region.

What is tobacco?

500
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
What is royal colony
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

The first elected representative government in the British colonies in North America

What is House of Burgesses?

500
This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I
What is Salutary Neglect