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100
This is how the very first settlers migrated to North America.
What is, "by crossing the Bering Land Bridge?"
100
This was what Columbus originally set out to prove when he started exploring.
What is, "the existence of a westward route to China?"
100
Which crop is responsible for the economic success of Jamestown?
What is tobacco?
100
This colony was established by the English. A significant leader was Captain John Smith, and it was saved by John Rolfe and tobacco.
What is Jamestown (Virginia)?
100
This was the most significant change for early Native American societies.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
200
The Bering Land Bridge is located between these two continents.
What are Asia and North America?
200
These were the first permanent settlements in the New World (include both & tell which European nation founded them).
What is St. Augustine (Spain) and Jamestown (England)?
200
This man was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony due to his religious beliefs. He founded Rhode Island and is known for his friendly relationships with Native Americans.
Who is Roger Williams?
200
This colony was established as a place of settlement for the Quakers. William Penn was its first governor.
What is Pennsylvania?
200
This was the movement in the 1600 and 1700s that stressed reason and logic and inspired leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
This was the most important crop grown by Paleo-Indians
What is corn?
300
These factors influence almost all human migration.
What are, "push & pull factors"?
300
This was the first legislative assembly in North America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
This colony was founded by Puritans, was governed by strict religious beliefs, and featured John Winthrop as its first governor.
What is Massachusetts?
300
Of these four prominent colonial leaders, only these three are known for their religious ties and accomplishments: John Smith, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson.
Who are Thomas Hooker (founded Colony of Connecticut after disagreeing with Puritan leaders of MBC; known for promoting universal Christian suffrage), Roger Williams (co-founded colony of Rhode Island after being banished from MBC; proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state; known for his relationships with Native Americans), and Anne Hutchinson (revolutionary ideas about the structure of religion resulted in her banishment from MBC).
400
The Hohokam developed this technology to support agriculture in their community.
What is irrigation?
400
What were the reasons that encouraged Spanish exploration?
What is, "gold, God, and glory"?
400
This system granted tracts of land to early settlers in Virginia as part of a tactic to encourage additional English settlement in the region.
What is the "headright system"?
400
This colony was originally founded by the Dutch. Its people established a treaty that protected fur trade with the Iroquois.
What is New York?
400
This British economic policy was part of the Navigation Acts.
What is mercantilism?
500
This was the most significant impact Europeans had on Native Americans as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
What is death as a result of European diseases?
500
What were Dutch explorers looking for as they traveled to the New World?
What is a westward passage to Asia?
500
This describes the Columbian Exchange.
What is the exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans?
500
This colony was established as a place for debtors and was a buffer against Spanish Florida in the south.
What is Georgia?
500
John Peter Zenger's court case was significant for this reason.
What is, "it laid the foundation for open public discussion in our Constitution"?