Early Colonialism
This Lenape subgroup gave its name to a present-day Brooklyn neighborhood.
What is Canarsee/Brownsville
This three-word phrase summarizes European motivations for exploration: religious, economic, and political glory.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
This Chesapeake based colonial cash crop made up nearly half of all Southern export value by the mid-1700s.
What is tobacco?
This 1215 English document established that the king could not tax without the consent of a representative council.
What is the Magna Carta?
This term describes an outbreak of disease among a population with no prior immunity, explaining the catastrophic Native population decline after contact.
What is Virgin Soil Epidemic?
This 1494 treaty, brokered by the Catholic Church, divided newly explored lands between Spain and Portugal along a line of demarcation.
What is the Treaty of Tordesailles?
This Spanish colonial labor system granted conquistadors the right to demand labor and tribute from conquered Native populations.
What is the encomienda system?
Signed in 1620 before colonists even landed, this document established self-government by majority rule aboard the Mayflower.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These diseases were most significant in the demographic collapse of the Native peoples (name at least 2)
Small pox, measles, mumps, infleunza, typhus
This religious/legal framework justified European claims to land inhabited by non-Christians.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery
Unlike Spain, this European power (along with the Dutch) relied on fur trade and alliances/intermarriage with Native nations rather than large-scale conquest.
Who are the French?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued in 1690 that legitimate government is founded on the consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
These three crops, part of the "three sisters" agricultural system, were grown by Mississippian and later Lenape farmers.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This type of ship, developed by the Portuguese, was key to enabling long transoceanic voyages.
What is a caravel?
Unlike indentured servitude, this labor system was lifelong and hereditary, solving planters' need for a permanent, uninterrupted labor force and has the word for "property" in it
What is chattel slavery?
What is the "Radical Whig"?
This Pacific Northwest food source allowed peoples like the Chinook to build permanent villages without farming.
What is salmon?
The 1493 letter from Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella described the Caribbean almost entirely in terms of gold, spices, and land, with little acknowledgment of this indigenous group's sovereignty.
Who are the Taino people?
This low-lying coastal plain, cut through by wide, slow-moving rivers, allowed Southern planters to load cash crops directly from private plantation docks.
What is tidewater?
Colonial governments were becoming more like the British, which is what this key term means.
What is Anglicization?