Native Americans Pre-Contact
What crop was the most important to Mexican and Southwest American Natives?
Maize (corn)
What disease was brought from Europe to the Americas that proved the most fatal to Native life?
Smallpox
Samuel de Champlain
What was the first English settlement in the New World?
Roanoke
What was the challenge facing British colonialist goals of westward expansion?
French colonies west of the Appalachian Mountains
The most common type of house Iroquois Native Americans lived in is called the ____.
longhouse
What was the name of the labor system that the Spanish used on Native Americans in their colonization of the Americas?
Encomienda
The French
What was the leading labor force in the British colonies during the early and middle of the 17th century?
White indentured servitude
What group founded the Plymouth Colony?
Radical Puritans known as Separatists.
What is one of the names that refers to the governmental group of Native American tribes of the Northeast?
The Iroquois Confederacy, the Great League of Peace, or Haudenosaunee.
What were two of the most common products of Spanish plantations in the New World?
Rice, sugar, coffee, and indigo.
How did the French, English, and Spanish colonies make money for their mother countries early on?
The French relied heavily on fur trade. The English made money for Britain with tobacco exports, ships built in New England, and cash crops (any of these answers will suffice). The Spanish gained great wealth through precious medals.
What was the major difference between the type of people colonizing in English colonies from those colonizing in French, Dutch, or Spanish colonies. (the answer is not that they were English)
Far more women settled in English colonies than in those of the other imperialist powers.
What were the three G's of exploration?
Glory, Gold, and God.
The strongest tribe of what is now known as southwest United States was the ____.
Pueblos
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas establish?
This document decided how the New World would be divided between Spain and Portugal.
Which colonies were involved in the Anglo-Powhatan War?
The Chesapeake colonies
What were the original thirteen British American Colonies?
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.
Which enlightenment thinker introduced the idea of the separation of political powers in government?
Montesquieu
What was Three Sisters farming and what were the specific three sisters?
Three Sisters farming was a system used by many Native American tribes of North American. This farming technique increased productivity as corn, beans, and squash worked together to benefit growth.
Once the Spanish introduced slave labor into their colonies, many communities formed in the Americas of escaped African slaves of Spain. What were these communities called?
Maroon Communities
What was the goal of the Dominion of New England?
To increase British royal control over its colonies.
What was Ferdinand Magellan's most famous achievement.
He was the first to circumnavigate the Earth.