Although born in Genoa, Italy Columbus sailed for this nation-state in 1492 on his fateful voyage west across the Atlantic.
Spain
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in the New World.
This system exploited Native Americans and resources. Eventually, Native American labor was replaced with African slave labor.
Encomienda System
More than any other factor of the Colombian Exchange, this impacted American Indian people the most, decimating their population to only a few hundred thousand in the present day.
Disease
a Spanish missionary, advocated for the rights of Native Americans and criticized the encomienda system, highlighting the moral dilemmas of colonization.
Bartolome De Las Casas
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
Bacon's Rebellion
This type of farming involved planting corn, beans and squash all together.
Three Sisters Farming
During the era before the French and Indian War, this resulted in the colonies being left alone to develop their own economic and political institutions.
Salutary Neglect
This Native American culture established a capital at Tenochtitlan and had a population of about 200,000.
Aztecs
Spanish explorers and soldiers who played a significant role in the Spanish colonization of the Americas, seeking wealth and territory.
Conquistadors
____ ____ companies encouraged investment and economic growth by spreading risk among multiple investors.
Joint Stock Companies
From the 16th century through the American Revolution, this Native group was a powerful force, battling rival American Indians as well as Europeans.
The Iroquois
An organizational system in which Catholic missionaries directed all of the new settlements in the Americas as opposed to soldiers.
The Mission System
This was the first major slave rebellion in the South that resulted in further restrictions on slaves
Stono Rebellion
What did natives call the time period where the Columbian Exchange introduced disease and death to the Americas?
The Great Dying
This individual openly promoted the idea of an individual personal relationship with God without the guidance of church leaders, and was later expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony
Anne Hutchinson
These people traveled alongside explorers and merchants in attempt to convert those they meet through travel to their religion.
Missionaries
Those who parents were Spanish and Native American were called what?
Mestizos