Age of Exploration
The study of the stars called______________, helped sailors navigate their ships better.
Astronomy
Italian discoverer who traveled West to Asia, running into the New World on his way
Christopher Columbus
John Rolfe married this Powhatan woman, resulting in peace between the Powhatan and Jamestown Virginians
Pocahontas
New England Colonies
The oceanic trade of men, women, and children was called
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
This device helped sailors determine the latitude and time of day.
Astrolabe
What was Columbus main motivation once he reached the Caribbean / "West Indies" - he saw it dangling from the Natives ears...
GOLD!
This Wampanoag Native American helped the Pilgrims survive the harsh winters of New England and taught them how to plant in rocky / sandy soil.
Squanto
What was the nickname for New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania
The following continents / places were involved with triangular trade
Europe to Africa to the Americas, back to Europe, etc.
These ships were extremely fast! They had triangle sails and were very "maneuverable."
Caravel.
The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, disease between the Old and New World
The Columbian Exchange
This man was credited for bringing ideas of religious tolerance to America
Roger Williams
Name the Southern Colonies (5)
South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia
The second leg of the voyage across the Atlantic where slaves were taken on ships from W. Africa to plantations in the Americas was called
the Middle Passage
The economic theory that says a mother country is richer with gold and silver.
colony = exports raw materials to mother country
mother country = imports raw materials and gets $$
Mercantilism
This group replaced Native Americans on Central & South American plantations after Natives were wiped out due to disease
Africans
The purpose of the Virginia Company in setting up the Jamestown Colony
profit / wealth
Describe the climate, soil, and economy of New England
harsh winters / mild summers, rocky soil, whaling / shipbuilding
This group of Poor White Europeans chose to come to America in a contract with their master to work for a number of years in exchange for food, lodging, and learning a skill. In the end, they were free and got land and years worth of corn in some cases.
Indentured Servants
15th and 16th Century European travel to discover trade routes to Asia and India / discovery of the New World
Age of Exploration
Name one negative outcome that resulted after European arrival to the New World
Possible answers: disease, loss of land, loss of Native culture, decrease population, loss of Native religions
The purpose of the Puritans in setting up the Plymouth / Massachusetts Bay Colonies
setting up religious communities / escaping religious persecution in England
Describe the climate, soil, and economy of the South
Warm year long, fertile, plantations with cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, indigo
*slave labor
Slavery in British Colonial America was justified by the following idea that categorized people based on the color of their skin or their physical features
Race