Category 1: Native Societies & Geography
This crop transformed Native American societies in the Southwest into settled farming cultures.
What is maize?
This European country led early colonization efforts in the Americas and established the encomienda system.
What is Spain?
Colonists in the Southern colonies primarily grew this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
This group founded Massachusetts Bay Colony and wanted to create a "city upon a hill."
Who are the Puritans?
This 1676 conflict showed tensions between frontier farmers and colonial elites in Virginia.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Native American tribes in the Great Plains were mostly:
What are nomadic hunters (or “buffalo-hunting” tribes)?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas was called:
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This system granted land and labor to Spanish settlers in exchange for “civilizing” Native people.
What is the encomienda system?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams and promoted religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
This uprising in 1680 saw the Pueblo people drive the Spanish out of New Mexico temporarily.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
The Mississippian culture was known for building these large structures.
What are mounds?
French colonization efforts focused mainly on this economic activity.
What is the fur trade?
This labor system was used in early British colonies before slavery became dominant.
What is indentured servitude?
This colony was known for being tolerant of Quakers and other religious groups.
What is Pennsylvania?
British colonists often justified taking Native land by claiming Native Americans didn't do this.
What is "improve" the land or settle permanently?
This was the primary reason why different Native groups developed diverse societies.
What is geography/environment?
The Dutch established this colony in the early 1600s, later taken by the British.
What is New Netherland?
This British policy allowed the colonies to self-govern as long as they remained profitable.
What is salutary neglect?
The Half-Way Covenant was a Puritan attempt to:
What is maintain church membership by allowing partial participation?
This system of trade connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This Native confederacy was known for a political system that influenced early American ideas of government.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These religious Spanish settlers aimed to convert Native peoples to Catholicism.
Who are missionaries?
By 1750, this region of the British colonies was the most diverse in economy, population, and religion.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This 1730s–1740s movement increased religious enthusiasm and new denominations.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This set of laws was designed to control colonial trade and enforce mercantilism.
What are the Navigation Acts?