Periods 1-2

Pre-Colonization

100

This empire in present-day Mexico had a capital city as large and advanced as European cities of the time. 

Aztec 

200

Religious wars between Protestants and Catholics over differing ideas about Christianity 

Protestant Reformation

300

Europeans after the crusades developed a taste for Asian goods. When he reached America, Columbus was looking for India to find what? 

Spices 

400

Different factions of this native group, near New York, united into a confederation to create peace and make decisions democratically. 

Iroquois 

500

The style of government/economics in Europe in this period where a king was at the top, followed by nobles who had estates that peasants farmed, was called 

Feudalism 

Early Colonies

100

The system of rule used in the Spanish colonies where lords ruled over natives (who paid tribute to the lord) 

Encomienda System 

200

After the lost colony of Roanoke, the earliest English settlement in North America was here (paid for by the Virginia Company) 

Jamestown 

300

The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies were founded by British settlers looking for this. 

Religious freedom

400

What was the name of the representative government in Virginia? 

The House of Burgesses 

500

This system offered 50-100 acres for anyone who went over to the Chesapeake to farmland, but in practice was used by wealthy men to send over indentured servants. 

Headright system 

Early Colonies 2

100

This event led to the shift from indentured servants to chattel slavery in Virginia

Bacon's Rebellion

200

French explorers mostly focused on fur trading along the Mississippi River in Michigan/Canada but also in this southern colony (also along the Mississippi River)

Louisiana 

300

This war between the New England colonists and Wampanoag chief Metacom ended most native resistance in New England. 

King Philip's War

400

This colony was originally founded by the Dutch and was then taken over by the British and renamed in the 1660s

New York 

500

William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a _____  experiment for religious freedom 

Holy 

British Colonies

100

Enslaved Africans coming to the Chesapeake farmed tobacco. What crop, which required African knowledge to cultivate, was grown in South Carolina? 

Rice

200

The name for the horrific voyage enslaved Africans took from West Africa to the American colonies

The Middle Passage

300

This colony, the only one to be funded directly by the British government, was a legacy of the Stono Rebellion

Georgia 

400

This British act enforced mercantilism by requiring the British colonies to only allow English ships in their ports and to send all their goods to England first. 

The Navigation Acts

500

James II, in an effort to control the colonies more directly, revoked the charter of several New England colonies and merged them into this. 

The Dominion of New England

British Colonies 2

100

German and Scots-Irish immigrants came to Europe and farmed in which section of colonies (Southern, Middle, or New England)?

Middle Colonies

200

This religious movement in America, encouraged by emotional New Light preachers, argued ordinary people could interpret the gospel without preachers leading them

The Great Awakening 

300

Which colonies focused most on elementary education? 

New England colonies

400

This New York paper editor, who was accused of slandering the governor of NY, was found innocent (an early step towards freedom of the press) 

The Zenger Case/Trial 

500

Britain limited the amount of money in the colonies (silver/gold), so colonies had to issue paper money that often varied in value and they would just issue more as they needed it. This practice led to____ 

Inflation