Chapter 1
This crop, also known as corn, was first domesticated in Mesoamerica and became a staple food source across the Americas.
Maize
This cash crop, cultivated by John Rolfe, saved the Virginia colony economically after 1612.
These laborers signed contracts to work for a set number of years, often 4-7, in exchange for passage to the colonies.
Indentured servants
What number did basketball player Michael Jordan wear when the played for the Chicago Bulls?
23
This term describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas and Europe/Africa after 1492.
The Columbian Exchange
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
This brutal sea voyage transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas under horrific conditions.
The Middle Passage
What real city does The Princess and the Frog take place in?
New Orleans
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that toppled the Aztec Empire in 1521.
Hernán Cortés
This group of English Protestants sought to purify the Church of England and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
The Puritans
This transatlantic trade network exchanged rum, enslaved people, and raw materials among Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Triangular trade
People watched movies at home by renting them from this store in the 2000's.
Blockbuster
This Mesoamerican civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics, and astronomy, built major cities like Chichén Itzá and Tikal
The Maya
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania in 1681 as a colony based on religious tolerance.
William Penn
This religious revival movement of the 1730s-40s, led by preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, emphasized personal salvation and emotional worship.
The Great Awakening
This West Coast rapper, born named Lesane Parish Crooks, is known for his songs "California Love" and "Dear Mama."
Tupac Shakur
This Protestant belief system, founded by a French reformer, emphasized predestination and heavily influenced Puritan colonists in New England
Calvinism
This English organization received a royal charter in 1606 and financed the founding of Jamestown.
The Virginia Company
These primary agricultural commodities, like tobacco, rice, and indigo, formed the economic backbone of the Southern colonies.
Staple crops
How old is Mrs. J?
This mound-building Native American culture, centered at Cahokia near modern St. Louis, had one of the largest pre-Columbian settlements north of Mexico
The Mississippians
This type of business organization, in which investors pooled capital and shared risk/profit, funded early English colonization efforts like Virginia.
Joint-stock companies
This 1739 South Carolina slave uprising was one of the largest in the British colonies and led to stricter slave codes.
Stono Rebellion
What is the name of the website where people printed driving directions before GPS apps existed?
MapQuest
This term refers to a person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry, a demographic category that became especially significant in Spanish colonial society.
Mestizo
This 1676 uprising, led by a Virginia planter against the colonial governor, was sparked by disputes over Native American policy and exposed tensions between poor colonists and the elite.
Bacon's Rebellion
This ideology favors the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants or newcomers.
In Beauty and the Beast, how many eggs does Gaston claim to eat every day?
Five dozen