Pre-Columbian America
This was brought to America by the Europeans and greatly impacted the way of life of Native Americans, especially the plains tribes.
Horses
The journey of slave-trading ships from Africa to the New World.
The Middle Passage
These colonies were home to New York City and Philadelphia. Its social structure was comprised of wealthy merchants on top, followed by artisans, and finally unskilled workers.
The Middle Colonies
Followers of Islam.
Muslims
What did the early Spanish explorers call the large housing structures built by the Anasazi?
Pueblo
This explorer is noted for claiming for France the land around the Mississippi River.
Robert de La Salle
Wealthy Puritan that held stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company which they would turn into a refuge for Puritans in America.
John Winthrop
Group that wanted to completely leave the Church of England.
Separatists
creators of a mighty empire in what today is Mexico.
The Aztec
people willing to sell their labor for a certain number of years.
Indentured Servants
This colony began as a debtor colony.
Georgia
This Enlightenment thinker said the best way to protect the liberty of the people was to divide power among three branches of government.
Montesquieu
Emperor of the Aztecs who warred with the Spanish.
Montezuma
Group of Spaniards most notable for their defeat of the Aztecs.
Conquistadors
The Jamestown Colony was established in this year.
1607
This philosopher wrote about the natural rights of all people and the contract theory of government.
John Locke