Mind Your Manors
This animal truly caused the Black Death to spread across Europe.
What are fleas or rats?
This region was considered the "breadbasket" of the colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies?
Columbus sailed from Spain...but he was actually born in this country as Christophero Columbo.
What is Italy?
This is the highest court in the United States today.
What is the Supreme Court?
In this event, 19 witches were hanged and a man was crushed to death with rocks.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
They were the most powerful institution in the world...more powerful than government.
What is the Catholic Church?
If you were very sick, doctors used this painful process to help heal you.
What is blood-letting?
List the "3 Gs" of exploration.
What are God, gold, and glory?
Women could receive the ducking stool as a punishment for these 'crimes'.
What is speaking out against one's husband or gossiping?
This event was a harvest feast between the Wampanoag and Pilgrims in October 1621.
What is Thanksgiving?
This famous children’s nursery rhyme was written about the Black Death.
What is Ring Around The Rosary?
This was the most successful crop grown in the U.S. and people didn’t realize how harmful it was.
What is Tobacco?
Explorers used this invention to sail a direct course. The needle always pointed north.
What is a compass?
This is one type of currency used to pay fines in Colonial America.
What are Pound, shilling, or pence?
This collection of battles took place, over a century, between England & France.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
They supervised the land, had to pay taxes and made sure that workers grew crops.
Who are the Lords?
You could only vote if you met the following criteria or qualifications.
What are White men, over 21, owned property?
The goal of early exploration was to find a trade route west to this country.
What is India or China?
This is the term for the crime of speaking out against the church
What is blasphemy?
Martin Luther started this revolution when he challenged the Catholic Church’s practices.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Knights, serfs and vassals worked under this political and economic system in Europe.
What is Feudalism?
Name one economic resource that New Englanders made money from.
What is fishing, whaling, or shipbuilding?
His crew circumnavigated (sailed around) the globe, but he died before they returned to Europe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These laws were set up by plantation owners to punish their servants.
What are the slave codes?
This began in Europe after the end of Feudalism. A focus on education and new types of art/architecture was emphasized.
What is the Renaissance?