Pre-Columbian & Spanish
This is the main cause of death among Native Americans in the New World after the arrival of Europeans.
Diseases
This famous explorer attended Philip the Navigator's sailing college and "discovered" a new land.
Columbus
This Spanish practice was supposed to be beneficial to the Native Americans, but it was more like slavery.
Encomienda
The French and Indian War started because this British colony wanted more land for tobacco.
Virginia
What book by Thomas Payne helped the colonists realize they wanted to be Independent?
Common Sense
Describe the Bering Strait migration route
They walked from Asia to Alaska
What animal, with waterproof hide, were the French looking for in the New World?
Beaver
Mestizo
What battle resulted when George Washington's Native American guides attacked a French diplomat?
Jumonville Glen
The Shot Heard Round the World was fired at ________________ while the Redcoats were on their way to Concord.
Lexington
This group built enormous earthen hills near a large river. (There are two names)
Missippians/Moundbuilders
In what three general locations did the Spanish establish their empire in the New World?
Mesoamerica, The American Southwest, and South America.
What did John Smith tell the rich investors at Jamestown to get them to work?
"If you don't work, you don't eat."
Describe the area of land received by the Spanish after the French and Indian War
West of the Mississippi
Who (2) and What (1) were the Redcoats looking for in Concord.
John Hancock, Sam Adams, Arsenal
People often confuse the Columbian Exchange with this Mercantile Network?
Triangular Trade
The Roanoke Colonists disappeared from a colony attempt by which Colonizing Country?
England
The system started that encouraged people to bring settlers to Virginia.
Headright System
Why did George Washington have to run from the French and build a fort in a hurry at Great Meadows?
His Native American guides killed Jumonville, a French Diplomat.
Which battle made the French decide to help the Americans in the Revolution?
Saratoga
Describe the Pacific Coastal Route
The people took boats from Asia down the West Coast of North America.
Why did Cortes gather the Mexica?
To defeat the Aztecs.
What two pressures resulted in the Salem Witch Trials?
Religious Pressure and Gender or Social Pressure.
Name two Acts we studied that George Grenville put on the Colonists to pay back the debt for the French and Indian War.
Sugar Act, Stamp Act
The combination of low supplies and a French blockade forced the surrender of General ____________ and the end of the Revolutionary War.
Cornwallis