Period 1A
Where were the Pueblo Indians located?
Southwest (modern day New Mexico)
Disease that wiped out almost 90% of the Native population?
Smallpox
Why was Jamestown failing prior to John Smith's assumption of leadership?
Men in Virginia had an obsessive desire to find gold rather than work.
What allowed settlers in New England to grow crops effectively?
Squanto showed them how to use corn as fertilizer
______ were established to try and convert natives to Christianity.
Praying Towns
_____refers to the flow of goods between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that the “discovery” of the New World.
Columbian Exchange
St. Lawrence River Valley
Introduction of tobacco
What is John Winthrop famous for?
Issuing the City Upon a Hill Speech while on the way to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What was the main effect of King Phillips War?
It opened expansion into the interior of the North America and led the way to wars with France.
Issued by Pope Alexander VI and stated that any land not inhabited by Christians could be claimed and exploited by Christian rulers.
The Doctrine of Discovery
Founder of New France
What was the first legislative body in the American Colonies?
House of Burgesses
_______ was established to train the clergy in Massachusetts.
Harvard
What is one example of events/occurrences that led to the demise of the New England Way?
1. Roger Williams calling for separation of church and state
2. Anne Hutchinson claim of faith only
3. Fundamental order of Connecticut
4. Salem Witch Trials
Agreement between Spain and Portugal to divide the New World
Treaty of Tordesillas
Settlement founded by Sir Walter Raleigh?
Roanoke Island
Daily Double!
This event to the decline of indentured servitude and the corresponding rise of slavery within the British American colonies.
_______ allowed partial membership into the church to allow voting rights.
Half-Way Covenant
What led to a more "gentle" ruling of the Spanish in modern day New Mexico?
Pueblo Revolt
System that allowed Conquistadors to receive land grants and exact tributes from the Natives on that land. First implemented by Columbus.
Encomienda System
_____ is where each shareholder invests some money in the company and, in turn, receives a share of the company's profits.
Joint-Stock Company
an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
What is the term given to the New England style of Government?
Town Hall Meetings
What was the largest Slave Rebellion in the South?
Stono Rebellion