Before Columbus: Native Worlds
This Native American group lived in the arid Southwest and built adobe homes.
Who are the Pueblo?
This deadly disease devastated Native populations after European contact.
What is smallpox?
This country focused on gold, God, and glory in the Americas.
What is Spain?
This region was known for small farms, town meetings, and Puritan influence.
What is New England?
This early labor system involved working for passage to America.
What is indentured servitude?
This tribe was part of the Iroquois Confederacy and known for political unity.
Who are the Mohawk (or any Iroquois nation)?
This crop from the Americas helped fuel population growth in Europe.
What is corn (or potatoes)?
This European power settled Quebec and relied heavily on the fur trade.
What is France?
This colony was founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This crop became the economic foundation of Virginia.
What is tobacco?
This agricultural practice involved growing corn, beans, and squash together.
What is the Three Sisters?
This system describes the global transfer of goods, people, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony was originally founded by the Dutch before becoming English.
What is New York (New Amsterdam)?
This colony was established by William Penn for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This law made slavery hereditary and race-based in the colonies.
What are slave codes?
This region’s natives relied heavily on fishing and had societies like the Chinook.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
This labor system forcibly moved millions of Africans to the Americas.
lWhat is the transatlantic slave trade?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This document established self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1739 uprising in South Carolina was a major slave rebellion.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This Native American political alliance influenced later colonial ideas of unity.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This Spanish system granted settlers the right to demand labor from natives.
What is the encomienda system?
This war (1689–1763 series) was part of the larger struggle for empire in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This concept explains why New England developed commerce while the South relied on plantation agriculture.
What is geographic/environmental differences (or regional specialization)?
This shift from indentured servants to enslaved labor followed this rebellion.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?