Pre-Columbian Civilizations
Spanish Colonization
European Colonial Powers
Transatlantic Trade
Colonial Regions
100
What were the "three sisters" crops?
Maize, Beans, Squash
100
term for a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry in Spanish Colonial society
Mestizo
100
This was the economic activity the French were mostly interested in when they colonized North America
Fur Trade
100
The name for the journey from Africa to the Americas that millions of enslaved people had to endure
Middle Passage
100
What was the name of the document that the Pilgrims signed to create a democratic government and community in colony in America?
Mayflower Compact (1620)
200
What animal did Native Americans in the Great Plains follow and hunt?
Buffalo/Bison
200
Author of Historia de las Indias, questioned the legitimacy of Spain's conquest and fought for better treatment of Native Americans.
Bartolome de las Casas
200
the first English colony attempt that failed
Roanoke
200
The name for the economic system in which a mother country uses colonies to extract wealth/resources and to compete with other countries
Mercantilism
200
Name two of the people the Puritans banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for having religious beliefs that did not match the strict codes of Puritan society
Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Mary Dyer
300
What innovation did Southwest Native Americans do to help cultivate their crops when the climate was so dry?
irrigation system
300
The pope signed this agreement regarding Spain and Portugal deciding which country could colonize which parts of the world, including the Americas
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
300
The name of the colony the Dutch established in the Northeast
New Amsterdam
300
What event happened that led to British colonies transitioning away from indentured servants for labor to enslaved African people?
Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
300
What law did the Catholics in Maryland pass to establish freedom of religion when they started to get outnumbered by Protestants?
Act of Toleration (1689)
400
How did the Columbian Exchange impact Native Americans? (multiple possible answers)
Death (smallpox, war)
Horses transformed hunting and warfare
400
Native Americans in the Southwest violently fought back against the Spanish mission systems and forced conversion to Catholicism in this event in 1680
Pueblo Revolt (Pope's Rebellion)
400
Name one similarity between the Spanish and French in their colonization of the Americas
multiple possible answers (intermarriage with natives, goal of spreading Christianity)
400
the name for crops that are grown not for food but for trade, like tobacco
cash crops
400
Religious leader Jonathan Edwards of the Great Awakening wrote this very influential sermon
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
500
How did the Columbian Exchange impact Europe? (multiple possible answers)
Population Growth (from better diets), Wealth
500
Supporter of the Harsh Treatment of Native Americans by Spain. Wrote Just Causes of War Against the Indians
Juan de Sepulveda
500
In order to encourage more settlers to move to America, England used this system offering planters 40 acres of land for every new person they brought to America
Headright System
500
The name for the laws the British Empire passed on its American colonies to restrict their economic activities
Navigation Acts
500
This was the name of the Wampanoag Chief who led Native Americans in an armed conflict against New England settlers in the 1670s
Metacom aka King Philip