Indigenous Civilizations
Cultivation of this crop helped create settled, urban societies across the Americas.
What is corn (maize)?
This colony, founded by Lord Baltimore, provided safe haven to Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This trip across the Atlantic ocean to the New World displaced millions of Africans in terrifying conditions.
Middle Passage
This rebellion in early 17th century Virginia started saw colonists attacking both Native Americans and colonial authorities. Some sources say it started over a pig.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This system provided Spanish conquerors with tracts of land and exploitable indigenous laborers.
What is encomienda?
This Mesoamerican civilization was centered in the Yucatan Penninsula of Mexico.
Who are the Mayans?
Though they never found the silver and gold they were looking for, this cash crop saved the Jamestown settlers economically.
What is tobacco?
These communities of escaped slaves were actively independent of European colonies.
Maroon communities
Partially because it exposed tensions between colonists and the colonial governments, Bacon's Rebellion is sometimes called a "dress rehearsal" for this later event.
What is the American Revolution?
This Wampanoag chief (or king) gives his name to a brutal conflict between Native Americans and colonists that effectively ended Native resistance in New England.
Who is King Philip (Metacom)?
This great Mississippian mega-city was long abandoned by its original inhabitants by the time European settlers discovered it.
What is Cahokia?
In 1614, the British captured this colony and renamed it "New York".
What is New Amsterdam?
This religious group, most populous in Pennsylvania, were early critics of American slavery.
Quakers
This revolt in present day New Mexico saw Native Americans violently resisting the Spanish missions.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This Dominican friar's protest of Spanish treatment of indigenous peoples would merit reforms of encomienda under King Charles V.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This language group forms the Northern portion of the "Eastern" or "Woodland" cultures.
Who are the Algonquin?
An exile from Massachusetts, this charismatic woman and her followers would later settle in Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Tituba was an African and/or indigenous woman who was central to this tragedy in the New England colonies.
What were the Salem Witch trials?
During the English Civil War, supporters of the English monarchy crashed with factions supporting this other branch of the government.
What is Parliament?
In 1637, English Puritans led a massacre in Mystic village, leading to a war with this Native American nation.
Who are the Pequots?
This indigenous group were early converts to Christianity and proved a key ally in Cortes' war against the Aztecs.
Who are the Tlaxcalans?
On their way to Plymouth, the pilgrims drew up this document promising the future colony would be run with the consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Decree of Sanctuary of 1623 by this country granted freedom to enslaved persons fleeing from the English colonies if they swore loyalty and converted to Catholicism.
What is Spain?
During Bacon's Rebellion, this member of the colonial elite supported the rebels and even advocated for the colonies to separate from Britain.
Who is Sarah Drummond?
The 1724 massacre of the Abenaki of Norridgewock, Maine by the British also led to death of this Catholic priest.
Sebastian Rasle