Dates/Decades
He sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Explorers had to rely on their knowledge and resources to survive in the "New World"
Who are Indigenous peoples?
Columbus believed he had reached islands off the coast of India, hence how this region got its name
What are the West Indies?
This global system involved the trading of animals, plants, and microbes
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The largest and most dominant Indigenous empire of Mesoamerica in the 16th century
What is the Aztec Empire?
What is Jamestown?
Often presented as "the great friend" of English explorers in past interpretations
Who is Squanto?
Squanto arrived back from England to discover that a majority of his people had died in this epidemic
These New England communities were established to help Indigenous people convert to Christianity
What are praying towns?
This empire sought a western route to Asia with Columbus' help
What is the Spanish Empire?
This economic system between the colonies, Europe, and Africa led the colonies to prosperity between 1600 and 1867
What is the triangular trade?
This settler group left England to practice a purer form of Christianity
Who are the Puritans?
A series of prosecutions in which hundreds of locals (mostly women and girls) were accused of witchcraft
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This form of colonialism was meant to replace rather than rule over Indigenous populations
What is settler colonialism?
People representing this empire settled much of the North American east coast
What is the British Empire?
This war (1675-1676) was named after a Wampanoag chief who rallied natives against the English in New England
What is Metacom/King Philip's War?
This African slave was an integral component of Cabeza de Vaca's survival in southwestern North America
Who is Esteban?
The name of this conflict derives from the prominent role that the hunting and trading of furs played in these disputes
What are the Beaver Wars?
A form of employment in which someone signed a contract offering to work for a set period of time (without pay) in exchange for land following the expiration of that contract
What is indentured servitude?
This empire was mostly focused on the North American fur trade, particularly beaver pelts
What is the French Empire?
A wave of witchcraft accusations known under this name occurred in several Massachusetts towns between 1692-1693
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This woman was one of the first accused of being a witch in the Salem Witch Trials
Who is Sarah Good?
The French made themselves enemies of this powerful confederation by trading with the Algonquians and Montagnais
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These two cash crops were the most popular in the southern Carolina colony in the late 17th and 18th centuries
What are indigo and rice?
This European power founded present-day New York City
What is the Dutch Empire?
The process of selling enslaved Africans to different regions of the "New World" occurred from 1400 to 1867
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This man recounted his experiences on a slave ship in a best-selling memoir
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
What is the Middle Passage?
Most popular cash crop grown in the early Virginia colony
What is tobacco?
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What is Fort Mose?
A populist revolt in which small landowners, indentured servants, and Black laborers rebelled against the colonial governor for refusing to help drive out native settlements on the VA frontier
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
1739 conflict that erupted in the South Carolina colony when enslaved Africans armed themselves and tried to flee to Fort Mose
What is the Stono Rebellion?
A series of laws passed in VA that formally cemented the unequal status of free (white) and unfree (Black) people
What are slave codes?
The Spanish crown offered freedom to former enslaved Africans at Fort Mose in exchange for these two conditions
What are military service and conversion to Catholicism?