Category 1
This European led the first voyage to arrive at the Americas.
Who is C. Columbus?
This was the first successful English colony in what today is the United States.
What is Jamestown?
Southern colonies developed ___________-based economies centered on cash crops.
What is "plantation-based?"
The puritans/pilgrims sought to escape religious persecution occurring in this European country.
What is England/Britain?
Pilgrims/Puritans arrived in America after a voyage aboard this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
These people, also known as Pilgrims, founded the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who are puritans?
This particular disease was instrumental in the devastation of Native communities.
What is smallpox?
This crop was crucial to the Native farming communities of the Atlantic coast.
What is Maize?
The modern name for the original city of New Amsterdam is _____ ________.
What is New York?
These kind of colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse. (which section?)
What were the Middle Colonies?
Ship carrying enslaved individuals crossed the ___________ __________ on the way to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The passing down of enslaved status from the Mother to her offspring created ___________ slavery, which was unique to the Americas.
What is chattel slavery?
Native Americans in this region of the country depended heavily on the buffalo/bison.
What is the Great Plains?
This was a Native shared government framework that united tribes with representatives.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
This refers to the transfer of people, goods, idea, and diseases across the Atlantic after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These were the three main European countries that colonized most of what today is the United States.
What is England, France, and Spain?
Colonial _____________s gained power over taxation and local through representatives
What are assemblies?
This was an event marked by emotional religious revival and fire and brimstone preaching.
What was the First Great Awakening?
According to theory, Native Americans crossed the __________ Strait 16,000 years ago to reach the Americas.
What is the "Bering?"
This is the most famous of the mound-builder societies, located in modern Missouri.
What is Cahokia?
These were the names of Columbus's ships.
What are La Nina, La Pinta, and La Santa Maria?
This was a Spanish labor system that forced Native Americans to work the mines for gold extraction.
What was the Encomienda System?
This provided 50 acres of land to any wealthy individual who financed passages to America.
What was the headright system?
We have a first hand account of an enslaved person's experience on board a slave ship thanks to the writings of Olaudah ____________ (last name).
Who is Equiano?
These were the Native American communities located in the modern American Southwest.
What are the "Pueblo?"
Most Native societies were organized around these kind of family-structured networks.
What are 'kinship' networks?
The fall of this city led to the need for Europeans (and Columbus) to find another way to Asia.
What is Constantinople?
The 13 colonies all operated under which three type of charters?
What were corporate, proprietary, or royal charters?
This was the first official government body founded in the colonies.
What was the House of Burgesses?
The colony of Maryland passed this peace of legislation to allow some religious toleration for Christians.
What was the Act of Toleration?