Contact/Exploration
This explorer sailed to the Americas in ____ under Spanish sponsorship
Who is Christopher Columbus in 1492?
This was the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the main labor system used on many Southern plantations
What is slavery?
This economic theory said colonies existed to make the mother country richer
What is mercantilism?
This 1607 colony became the first permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
Horses were brought to the Americas from this hemisphere
What is the Eastern Hemisphere/ Old world/ Europe?
DAILY DOUBLE! Before slavery expanded, this was the main labor system in the English colonies
What is indentured servitude?
European powers like Spain and Portugal searched for new ocean routes mainly for this reason
What is trade / wealth / access to Asia
DAILY DOUBLE! This group landed at Plymouth in 1620
Who are the Pilgrims?
This disease killed huge numbers of Native Americans after contact
What is smallpox?
This 1679 rebellion scared elites and helped push them toward more racial slavery
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is triangular trade?
This Spanish colonizer conquered the Aztec Empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Potatoes and maize were crops that traveled from ____ to ____
What is the Americas to Europe?
These 1705 laws made slavery more strictly racial and hereditary
What are the Virginia Slave Codes?
DAILY DOUBLE! Enslaved Africans' forced voyage across the Atlantic was called this
What is the Middle Passage?