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Created a Spanish Colony on the island of Hispaniola to the determent of the Carib people.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Pueblo Indians overthrew the Spanish Colonial settlement of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What is Pope's Rebellion or the Pueblo Revolt?
A colony established by a group of investors who expect to earn a profit from their investment.
What is a joint-stock company?
The first written agreement on government in the British Colonies that established the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Transatlantic route that created the North American slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
Established a school for navigators and sailors in Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
The primary economic activity of the French Colonies in Canada and the Mississippi River valley.
What is the fur trade?
The division of Spanish Colonial society based on racial characteristics.
What is the caste system?
Required the British Colonies to trade ONLY with England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Native American foods: maize, beans, and squash.
What are the Three Sisters?
People who are of American Indian and Spanish mixed heritage.
Who are mestizos?
Conflict between England and France for supremacy in North America?
What is the French and Indian War?
Enlightenment idea that establishes the concept of the consent of the governed.
What are Natural Rights, proposed by English Philosopher John Locke?
Benjamin Franklin's failed proposal to the British Colonies during the French and Indian War.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
The idea that England could benefit from it colonies without having direct, daily control over them.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Led a revolt against the Governor of the Colony of Virginia claiming discrimination by the planters against new immigrants to the western portion of the colony.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Considered to be the opening shots fired during the American Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Basic natural rights outlined in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Required each purchase of a paper good to pay a tax to the British government.
What is the Stamp Act?
These ideas were combined to create the new federal Constitution of the United States.
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
Wrote the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Conflict between colonists and British Troops standing guard at the state house in Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Belief that women should be educated enough to raise the next generation of American political leaders.
What is Republican Motherhood?
The first constitution of the independent American nation.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Order from King George III to attempt to hold the peace between the British Colonies and American Indians in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?