Early America
This event began the Columbian Exchange.
Christopher Columbus sailing to the New World.
This group of Christians settled in New England to escape religious persecution.
Puritans.
Early American colonists quickly realized this was a more cost-effective form of forced labor.
Slavery.
This was the religious movement that changed the way Christianity was practiced in America in the 1740s-1770s.
Great Awakening.
This was the governing document for the United States before the Constitution.
Articles of Confederation.
These two foods originated in the New World.
Wheat, beef, chicken, etc.
John Winthrop used this phrase to show that the Puritans in America should be an example to Christians all over the world.
"City on a Hill"
This form of forced labor involves selling 7 years of your time in exchange for passage across the Atlantic.
Indentured servitude.
This was the reason the British Empire taxed the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s.
War debt from the French and Indian War.
This was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
No taxation, no central army, etc.
These two animals or foods originated in the New World.
Llamas, avocados, potatoes, tomatoes, etc.
Slavery took more root in the Southern colonies for this reason.
Geography. (soil)
This part of the Triangular Trade moved African slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage.
This law created outrage by stationing British soldiers in private homes in the colonies.
Quartering Act.
Northern and Southern states eventually settled on this agreement for how to count slaves as part of state populations.
Three-Fifths Compromise.
Europeans stopped enslaving Native Americans for labor in the Americas for this reason.
Many of them died of disease.
This describes a main difference in how the British, French, and Spanish treated Native Americans.
The French traded with Natives, the Spanish enslaved and conquered them, the British fought wars with them.
French and Spanish tried to convert them to Christianity; Britain did not try.
Forced labor became necessary because the economies of the Southern colonies relied on these cash crops.
Tobacco, indigo, cotton, etc.
This group of colonists refused to fight for independence and often fought alongside the British to keep the colonies part of the British Empire.
Loyalists.
These were the first two political parties in the United States, formed in response to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Federalists and Antifederalists.
This was one of the diseases that was transferred during the Columbian Exchange.
Smallpox, influenza, syphilis, etc.
This was a possible explanation for the Salem Witch Trials.
One part of the town being jealous of the other for being richer (paying them taxes), etc.
Bacon's Rebellion revealed the future relationship between white colonists and Native Americans would be like this.
White colonists wanting land and getting government support to take it from Native Americans.
Lord Dunmore added a new dimension to the War of Independence when he made this declaration about the slaves belonging to the patriots.
Declared that slaves leaving their rebellious masters could earn freedom by joining the British army.
The members of the Constitutional Convention opted to ignore the problem of slavery for this primary reason.
They were worried the states would not unite/wanted to make sure the South would join the Union.