European Exploration
What were the "Three G's" that motivated European explorers to head west.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This was the very first permanent English town in America, named after King James I.
What is Jamestown?
The process of global transfer named after the explorer who started it in 1492.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
This term describes the three-way trade route where New England rum was traded for enslaved Africans, who were then traded in the West Indies for sugar and molassas.
What is Triangular Trade?
Living on the frontier was dangerous because of frequent clashes or conflicts with this group of people who already lived on the land.
Who are Native Americans?
Who is the Italian explorer who represented Spain during his sailing expedition in 1492?
Who is Chistopher Columbus?
This daughter on a Powhatan chief allegedly saved the life of Captain John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
The invisible "killer" brought by Europeans that wiped out millions of Native Americans.
What is disease(smallpox)?
This was the horrific middle leg of the transatlantic trade route, during which millions of enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the Americas under brutal contitions.
What is the Middle Passage?
These free-standing "houses" on the Great Plains were constructed by stacking blocks of prairie turf.
What are Soddies(sod houses)?
The country that sponsored most of the early exploration in Central and South America.
What is Spain?
This "lost" colony is famous for disappearing completely leaving only a mysterious word on a tree.
What is Roanoke?
Before Europeans brought these animals over Native Americans have never seen or riden them.
What are horses?
This series of laws passed by the British Parliament starting in 1651 restricted colonial trade to English ships and required certain goods to pass through English ports.
What is the Navigation Act?
This 1676 conflict in Virginia was led by disgruntled frontiersmen who were frustrated by the government's failure to protect them from Native American attacks.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The name of the water route explorers hoped would lead them through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest passage?
In 1621, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians share this famous three day harvest feast in November.
What is Thanksgiving?
The #1 New World crop that helped Europe's population grow.
What is a potato?
This 1733 British law attempted to curb colonial smuggling by placing a high tax on imported sugar and syrup from non-British colonies in the West Indies.
What is the Molasses Act?
This was the primary geographical barrier that defined the "frontier" for the British colonies until the mid-1700s, seperating the Atlantic coastal plain from the Ohio River Valley.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Who was the 16th-century Spanish conquistador, who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under Spanish rule
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This is the famous rock in Massachusetts where the Pilgrims supposedly stepped ashore.
What is Plymouth rock?
This sweet treat, made from beans, found in Central America, was a favorite of the Aztecs.
What is Chocolate(Cacao)?
This economic theory, dominant in the 17th and 18th centuries, argues that a nation's power depended on its wealth and that colonies existed sololy to enrich the "mother country".
What is Mercantilism?
Most frontier families practiced this type of farming, were they grew just enough food to feed themselves with little left over for trade.
What is Subsidence Farming?