Columbus Arrives
Before 1492, many Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the cultivation of this crop.
What is corn?
This was the most likely reason why English colonists wanted to come to Ameria.
What is to seek economic opportunity and improved living conditions?
The Dutch settled this colony to expand their commercial and mercantile network.
What is New Netherland?
This event during the 1730's and 1740's resulted in the divisions within both the Congressional and Presbyterian churches.
What is The Great Awakening?
The most important factor that enabled the Spanish to conquer native peoples in Mexico and New Spain in the 16th Century was this.
What is the introduction of European diseases to which native people were not resistant?
The most densely populated regions of North America would eventually be colonized by this country.
What is Spain?
This religious group that settled in North America during the 17th Century allowed women to speak publicly in their religious meetings and to be missionaries.
Who are the Quakers?
Settlers wishing to profit economically during the 1600's established this British colony.
What is Virginia?
What is the rise of institutionalized slavery?
The efforts of Spanish colonists to convert Native Americans to Christianity were most most directly influenced by this broad goal.
What is the extraction of gold and other wealth from the land in the Americas?
The term for a Spanish developed system based on using Native Americans for forced labor.
What is the encomienda system?
What is Jamestown?
Anne Hutchinson was banished from this colony in1637 for challenging the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This British Act was generally accepted by the majority of American colonists as a legitimate use of Parliament's authority.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first people who colonized the Americas came from here.
What is Asia?
In the 1500's and 1600's, this was the main difference between Spanish economic systems in the American colonies compared to the existing economic systems in Spain.
What is Spanish colonists used enslaved Africans to work on plantations?
The disagreement between frontier settlers and the Virginia government over relations with Natives and restrictions on the fur trade led to this rebellion.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
By the early 1700's, slavery was legally established here?
What is all the colonies?
Mercantilism applied by Britain to its Northern American colonies meant that the British regulated this.
What is colonial shipping and tobacco production?
Before 1800, this European import had the greatest impact on the lives of the Plains Indians.
What are horses?
This conflict resulted in the successful expulsion of Europeans from the Rio Grande region of North America for nearly a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
New England Puritans sought to create a model community in Massachusetts that promoted this.
What is a government by strict religious principals?
What is Pennsylvania Colony?
This religious group that settled in North American during the 1600's believed that they were God's chosen people.
What are Puritans?
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?