Native Americans before 1492
Native Americans are believed to have traveled to America via this land bridge
What is Berengia?
These are the 3G's of exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
These people were the original slaves of the Americas
Who are the Native Americans?
This region had large plantations with enslaved labor due to the warm climate and ability to grow cash crops
What are the Southern Colonies?
The economic system where colonies provide raw materials to the empire/home country and buy finished goods
What is mercantilism?
The population of the Americas has been estimated as high as this prior to the arrival of Columbus
What is 10 million people?
These two countries were the first to explore the "New World"
What are Spain and Portugal?
The name of the route that brought enslaved people to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage/Triangle Trade?
These colonies were founded by religious groups that felt persecuted in England and were intolerant of those who questioned their religious beliefs.
What were the New England Colonies?
This rebellion by enslaved Africans and indentured servants led to the establishment of a race based slavery system in the American colonies
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This grain was the backbone of food production in the "New World"
What is corn (maize)?
The transfer of goods, food, and diseases between the "New World" and the "Old World"
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The reason that colonists began importing African enslaved people to the Americas
What is death of Native Americans due to diseases?
These colonies had a diversity of European immigrants and a more tolerant attitude toward religion.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The religious movement that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
These three major civilizations grew out of Central and South America before the arrival of Columbus
This trade drove French colonization in the Americas
What is the fur trade?
Its the main reason Spanish colonies developed a caste system while the English colonies developed race based slavery.
What is intermarriage with the local population?
This was the first representative assembly in America in the Virginia Colony
The American colonies offered more freedom in these two main areas
What are religion and social mobility (class)?
This former Spanish conqestador turned priest advocated for a change to Spanish policy towards natives and enslaved people in the colonies
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
These companies were used by English colonists to finance the risky ventures.
What are joint-stock companies?
This Spanish system of labor involved a Spaniard "owning" the workers on his land in exchange for caring for them, but many laborers were abused instead.
What is the encomienda system?
In the Virginia colony, the system used to encourage immigration that offered 50 acres to any immigrant that paid their own way or any landowner who paid for an immigrant.
The European philosophical movement that attracted some educated Americans and would eventually lead to the ideas of a new government.
What is the Enlightenment?