Miscellaneous
The massive Trans-Atlantic exchange of plants, ideas, animals, and food sources, 1400s-1700s.
What is the Columbian Exchange
1492
Voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas (Cuba)
Where region in North America did the Iroquois live before the arrival of the Europeans?
What is present-day northeastern United States
Which colonial region's economy was based on plantation agriculture with cash crops like tobacco, rice, corn and indigo?
What is the Southern region
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament punished the colonists by closing the port of Boston, rescinding self-governance in Massachusetts, but the attempt to restore obedience led to more rebellion.
What are the Coercive Acts
A system of forced labor which was implemented by the Spanish in the "New World"
Encomienda System
1607
Jamestown, Virginia is founded, making it the first permanent English settlement in North America
Which North American Native empire lived in present-day Mexico and built an elaborate city called Tenochtitlan?
Who are the Aztecs?
Which colonial region in England's North American empire was most culturally diverse and was sometimes called the "bread colonies"
What are the Middle Colonies
The first and final battles of the American Revolution?
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Yorktown
English religious faction that embraced Calivinsit ideas and wished to "purify" the Anglican Church of its rituals, migrating to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1620s.
What are Puritans
1754
What is The Start of the French & Indian War
Businesses owned by shareholders that were investing in exploration and colonization of the western hemisphere.
What were joint stock companies?
Which colonial region was initially founded by those escaping religious persecution, but later experienced a "witch hunt" in the Salem Witch Trials?
What is New England
A system of government sharing power between a national government and state governments, with both levels deriving authority from a constitution is called what?
What is federalism
Religious leader who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; later credited with founding Rhode Island
Roger Williams
1619
Virginia establishes the House of Burgesses (first colonial legislature), or Arrival of first enslaved Africans in English Colonies
What were the three "Gs" motivating European expansion into the western hemisphere?
Gold, glory, and god
Name a conflict pitting English colonists against Native tribes over land between 1607-1754
What is the Pequot War, King Phillip's War, Powhatan War...?
Federalists favored a _______ central government, Democratic-Republicans favored a ________ central government.
What is "stronger" and "weaker"
Economic system practiced by European powers in the 17th century which sought a favorable balance of trade promoted economic self-sufficiency, and established colonies for raw materials.
What is Mercantilism
1776
What is "Independence Day" - founding of the United States when Declaration of Independence signed.
Name a deadly disease that arrived in the Americas from European explorers, conquistadors and settlers, that decimated Native populations.
What is small pox (or influenza, or measles, or influenza...)
What was name of the uprising against the Virginia colonial government for not protecting western settlers, and led to a shift from indentured servants to slaves as laborers in the colony
What is Bacon's Rebellion
What were the two major themes of Washington's "Farewell Adress"?