First Contact
In 1492, he became the first European to land in the Americas.
This is the Spanish term used for the social hierarchy system established in the American colonies.
What is Las Castas?
What is tobacco?
This religious movement led to new evangelical churches founded by charismatic preachers.
What is the Great Awakening?
This was the term for the trade of goods between the Old World and the New World after European colonialism.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was ONE factor that determined one's standing in the social hierarchy established by Spanish colonizers.
What was race, birthplace, ethnicity, skin color etc?
Before being largely replace by African slavery, this labor system was widespread on colonial plantations.
What is Indentured Servitude?
These religious settlers founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the Puritans?
This is one new animal, crop or disease brought to the Americas by European colonists.
What are horses, cows, pigs, wheat, rice, oats, smallpox, bubonic plague, measles, influenza etc (more answers possible)?
This term was used for the labor system employed by the Spanish in their colonial empire.
What is encomienda?
This colonial region became the breadbasket of the 13 colonies due to its mix of good soil and access to rivers and harbors.
What are the Middle colonies?
This uprising in Virginia in 1676 led to increased segregation between black and white laborers in the colonies.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This Native American culture group (Northeast, Plains or Southwest) lived nomadic lives, hunting buffalo in the vast grasslands between the Mississippi and the Rockies.
What are the Plains tribes?
This tribe revolted against the Spanish in New Mexico, killing priests and destroying churches.
Who are the Pueblo?
These are two economic products of the New England/Northern colonies.
What are cod fish, whale oil, rum/molasses, timber, furs, ships, iron etc?
This was the primary punishment for "free thinkers" like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams in Massachusetts.
What is banishment/exile?
These are the "Three G's" that helped motivate European exploration of the Americas.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This Spanish priest defended Native Americans against the abusive practices of Spanish colonizers.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
These two factors dictated what type of economy each economic region could support.
What are climate and geography?
Like the House of Burgesses and New England Town Hall Meetings, this important document was a step towards self-government and democracy in the English colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?