Geography
This ocean had to be crossed by explorers traveling from Europe to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic?
The Pilgrims left England seeking religious freedom from what church?
What is the Church of England (Anglican)?
Christopher Columbus is credited with reaching the Americas in this year.
What is 1492?
The Atlantic coastal colonies were ultimately governed under the authority of this European power.
What is England?
Jamestown colonists eventually made money by growing this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
The crops most commonly grown by Native Americans also called the "Three Sisters"
What are beans, maize (corn), and squash?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This religious group founded the colony of Pennsylvania under William Penn.
Who are the Quakers?
The Mayflower Compact was an early example of this type of colonial government.
What is self-government?
This English king gave the Virginia Company a charter to settle in the New World.
Who is King James I?
The economic theory that drove colonization, focusing on accumulating wealth and resources.
What is mercantilism?
Pattern of kinship in which lineage, inheritance, and family ties are traced through the mother's side of the family.
What is matrilineal?
Spanish colonists built missions in this present-day U.S. state, including San Diego and San Francisco.
What is California?
The Spanish colonists tried to convert Native Americans to this religion.
What is Catholicism?
The 3 "Gs" of exploration and colonization.
What is God, gold, and glory?
The House of Burgesses, established in 1619, was the first of this kind of assembly in America.
What is legislative assembly?
The transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans, raw materials, and manufactured goods was known by this phrase.
What is triangle trade?
This disease decimated the Native American population who had no immunity from European diseases.
What is smallpox?
Many Africans first arrived in the Americas through these islands, later becoming a center of sugar and slavery.
What is the Caribbean?
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that emphasized this type of relationship with God.
What is a personal relationship with God?
Hernán Cortés conquered this major Mesoamerican empire.
What is the Aztec Empire?
In 1662, Virginia passed a law stating that a child’s status as free or enslaved would follow this parent, ensuring the growth of slavery.
Who is the mother?
This group of colonists agreed to work for years in exchange for passage.
What are indentured servants?
In 1705, Virginia’s slave codes restricted the rights of enslaved Africans and created strict divisions between these two racial groups.
What are Black and white?
The Line of Demarcation, established by the Treaty of Tordesillas, divided the New World between these two countries.
What is Spain and Portugal?
Maryland was founded as a haven for people of this faith.
Who are Catholics?
This Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts challenged the religious and political authority of the colony.
Who is Ann Hutchinson?
This leader of this confederacy resisted English expansion in Virginia during the early 1600s, negotiating and fighting to protect Native lands.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
King Philip’s War, the English name given to this Native American, was sparked by colonists’ encroachment on Native land in New England.
Who is Metacom?
In 1676, this Virginia planter led an uprising of frontier settlers and enslaved Africans against colonial authorities.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?