1.4
The movement of plants, animals, disease, knowledge, and culture between the "Old World" and the "New World" in the centuries after 1492.
What was the name of the land bridge that nomadic hunters used to cross from East Asia to the Americas?
The Bering Strait Land Bridge
What were the 4 New England colonies?
What were the earliest two colonies?
Plymouth and Jamestown
3 G's of Spanish Exploration
Gold, Glory, and God
What were 3 things that came from Europe during the Columbian Exchange?
Livestock, grains, turnip, smallpox, influenza, and measles
Trade and Agriculture
What was Salutary Neglect?
Weak enforcement of British trade laws
What was the most infamous military confrontation between the colonists and Native Americans?
King Phillip's War 1675 (Metacom's War)
Mercantilism
The idea that a country gains power by increasing exports and decreasing imports
What was one of the impacts that the exchange had on the Americas?
New diseases led to widespread epidemics that decimated native populations OR new crops and livestock diversified Native American societies.
What were the 3 plants in the Pueblo 3 sister farming system
Corn, squash, and beans
Name the Middle Colonies.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
What was the root of conflicts between the Native Americans and the Colonists?
Resource competition
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was formed in 1619 in Virginia. It was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
What was a cause of the Columbian Exchange?
OR
Joint Stock Companies
OR
The theory of Mercantilism
What was the name of the Iroquois governing system?
Five Nation Confederacy
What was preached during the First Great Awakening?
Preachers delivered sermons emphasizing personal & emotional connections to God
What were the diseases that were spread through interactions between Native Americans and British colonists?
Measles and smallpox
Mayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that transported English Separatists, known as pilgrims, from Plymouth England to America in 1620.
Which 3 elements of life changed because of the Columbian Exchange?
Social, cultural, and political change
What was the central crop of the Mississippian agricultural economy?
Maize
What was the "Anglicization" of the British colonies?
The British colonies becoming "English" over time
What 4 things were the center of the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans?
Trade, exchange, alliances, and warfare
Quakers
The Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, are a religious group that emerged in England during the 17th century. They believe in the doctrine of inner light or sense of Christ's direct working in the soul.