Age of Exploration
This was the original European motivation that started the Age of Exploration.
What is to find a faster route to Asia?
These people wanted to separate from the Church of England and find religious freedom
Who are the pilgrims?
These items were shipped from Europe to Africa in the triangle trade
What are textiles, rum, and manufactured goods?
The first battles of the American Revolution were fought at these two locations.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This Spanish governor arrived in New Orleans but lacked military force to establish sovereignty.
Who is Don Antonio de Ulloa?
Who was the first to circumnavigat the Earth
Ferdinand Magellan
This colony had sandy, rocky soil, dense forests, and mountainous terrain.
What are the New England Colonies?
These people were shipped from Africa to the Americas in the triangle trade.
Who are enslaved people?
This spy, born into slavery, fought on the American side of the Revolution.
Who is James Armistead?
Colonists staged this event in 1768 against Spanish rule.
What is the Insurrection of 1768?
This explorer was the first to realize the Americas were a new land, not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
In this colonial region, you'd hear "I am getting wealthy selling rice to England using slave labor."
What are the Southern Colonies?
During the French colonial period, this trade was the primary source of revenue in Louisiana.
What is the fur trade?
"We the People" from the Constitution's Preamble best reflects this concept.
What is popular sovereignty?
Spain sent this governor with 2,000 soldiers to respond to the colonial uprising
Who is Alejandro O'Reilly?
European powers sent these people on expeditions to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Who are missionaries?
Poor soil and coastal storms caused mercantilism to fail in this French colony.
What is the Louisiana colony?
During the Spanish colonial period, these two crops became the main agricultural products in Louisiana
What are cotton and sugar?
This compromise resolved the debate between large and small states about representation
What is the Great Compromise?
The economy shifted from this primary revenue source during French rule to plantation agriculture centered around these two main crops during Spanish rule.
What is the fur trade shifting to cotton and sugar production?
Who sailed the ocean blue in 1492?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
This sequence of events led to Bacon's Rebellion: Native Americans wanted to protect ancestral lands, then this happened, followed by the governor's refusal, and finally Bacon's organized attacks
What is "Poor Virginia farmers felt they were at risk of losing land to Native American tribes and nations"?
These three government offices managed the French Louisiana colony: one handled judicial matter and was the first court, another managed money, and the third had complete control appointed by the French monarchy.
What are the superior council, commissaire ordonnateur, and governor?
These three goals motivated the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763: keeping peace to avoid costly wars, building defensive forts, and developing profitable relationships.
What are keeping peace with Native American tribes, building forts along the proclamation line to defend colonies and monitor trade, and keeping peace with Native Americans to develop profitable trade relationships?
This Spanish governor, who later became famous during the American Revolution, succeeded the harsh military leader who had executed rebel colonists, and his more lenient policies helped stabilize Spanish rule in Louisiana.
Who is Bernardo de Gálvez?