North American Civilizations
Before Europeans arrived, this region had larger cities and more complex societies.
What is Mesoamerica?
This issue is the reason England got off to a slow start in Atlantic exploration.
What is religion?
This is what the Virginia Company expected to find when it sent colonists to start Jamestown.
What is gold and/or silver?
The Puritan pilgrims left England seeking this.
What is religious freedom?
This person believed the Massachusetts Bay colonists should not take Native land.
Who is Roger Williams?
This civilization was near modern-day St. Louis on the Mississippi River.
What is the Cahokia?
This group saw land as something to be shared, not as a source of personal wealth.
What are the Native Americans?
One main reason we know John Smith and Pochontas were not romantically involved is that they had a huge gap in what?
What is age?
What is they feared their kids were becoming too Dutch and/or they felt the Netherlands had too much religious freedom?
This phrase refers to a time when many women were tried and executed because colonists thought they were witches.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
This civilization lived in the Ohio River Valley and left behind huge burial mounds.
What is the Hopewell?
This colony suffered a mysterious fate. When a leader went back to Europe to get supplies, he returned to find everyone gone.
What is Roanoke?
After Jamestown failed, England went next to this region.
What is the Caribbean (or Barbados)?
The document the pilgrims signed in which they agreed to work together and follow the rules they created together.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This person believed everyone should be able to communicate with God.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This civilization build homes into the sides of steep cliffs so one needed ropes or ladders to access them.
What is the Anasazi?
In Eastern Woodlands societies, this group of people was in charge of farming, advising leaders, and preserving traditions.
What is women?
This is the name for a company in which ownership is shared between people, who invest money and then make or lose money based on the business' success.
What is a joint-stock company?
The reason the Puritan pilgrims taught everyone to read.
What is, they believed everyone should read the Bible?
This person believed the Puritans should be fully separate from the Church of England.
Who is Roger Williams?
This civilizatoin lived in the Southwest and used canals to grow crops. It had the largest population in the Southwest.
What is the Hohokam?
After finally settling on being a Protestant nation, England started exploring because they were afraid this country would convert the world to this branch of Christianity (the answer needs two parts).
What are Spain and Catholicism?
These are two challenges Jamestown faced that led to its failure.
What are harsh weather, lack of supplies, poor relations with Natives, and/or lack of gold or silver?
John Winthrop used this phrase to inspire the Massachusetts Bay colony to be an example of a strong Christian community.
What is 'city upon a hill'?
This colony was started by the man thrown out of Massachusetts Bay colony for publicly disagreeing with the Puritans. Today, the colony is a state.
What is Rhode Island?