Pre-Columbian
The Spanish
The Rest of 'em
British regions
Everything else
100

This region was most likely to have to have built extensive irrigation systems

What is the Southwest?

100

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1547) defended this institution that the Spanish developed.

What is the encomienda system?

100

Individual investors that pooled resources and money to send expeditions to the Americas were known as this.

What is a Joint-stock company?

100

The large numbers in the New England region can be most attributed to this.

What is they came in family groups and could increase population more easily?

100

The map shows that the two regions that imported the largest number of people who were enslaved.

What are the West Indies and Brazil?

200

Northwestern communities were most likely to have benefitted from this resource.

What is the ocean?

200

The person who opposed Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda's (1547) arguments at the Vallodolid debate was him.

Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?

200

The French and Dutch were similar in these two ways when it came to American colonization.

What is they primarily wanted to participate in the fur trade, they had "decent relations" with the Native populations, they tended to come in small numbers?

200

The population trend in terms of people who were enslaved was that the further south this occurred.

What is the higher the percentage of people enslaved?

200

The horrific voyage from Africa to the Americas onboard slave ships is referred to as this.

What is the Middle Passage?

300

Cahokia with a very dense population, mounds, and a hunter-gatherer society was based in this region.

What is the Northeast? What is the Mississippian?

300

“Most of the microbes responsible for the infectious diseases of crowded human societies evolved from the very similar ancestral microbes ... producers having coming into close contact with around 10,000 years ago.  Eurasia harbored many domestic animal species and hence developed many such microbes, while the Americas has very few of each.”

- Jared Diamond, historian, Guns, Germs and Steel, 2005.

This development is described above.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

300

French and Dutch trading posts were in these areas of the Americas.

What is the French in Canada/Great Lakes and the Dutch in New York?

300

Region most likely to pass laws about religious freedom.

What are the Middle Colonies?

300

John Winthrop warned his people in this colony that "all eyes were upon them."

What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?

400

The region most impacted by the introduction of the horse was this region.

What are the Plains?

400

The system of "racial hierarchy" the Spanish developed was known as this.

What is the Casta system?

400

The British and the Spanish instituted social structure systems that were the same in terms of this concept.

What is "racial" hierarchy?

400

Region most challenged by the Great Awakening.

What is New England?

400

Two different types of rebellion that people who were enslaved used.

What are covert and overt rebellion?

500

The region that contained matrilineal societies and a confederation to maintain peace was this region.

What was the Northeast?

500

Three impacts of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

What is the toppling of Aztecs, Incas, 80% of indigenous killed by disease, wealth and power went to Spanish crown, extracted mineral wealth, enslaved Natives, brought enslaved Africans to New World, created competition between other European powers, and forced Catholicism on first nation peoples.

500

The Spanish and the French were similar to one another in terms of these two practices.

What is intermarriage with the Native Populations and converting Natives' religious beliefs?

500

Bacon's rebellion directly led to these two changes in the labor system of the Chesapeake.

What is less indentured servants and more use of chattel slavery?

500

This system depicted in the cartoon.

What is mercantilism?