Native Americans
This Great Plains group followed bison herds and were highly nomadic.
Who are the Lakota and Comanche?
Europeans began exploring the world around 1450, seeking new trade routes and resources, driven by wealth, faith, and this motivation.
What are the 3 Gs (Gold, God, Glory)?
This European power primarily focused on converting Native Americans to Christianity and establishing settlements in the Americas.
What is Spain?
This 1675-1676 war pitted New England colonists against a Native confederation, resulting in massive casualties.
What is King Philip’s War?
European powers controlled colonial trade to benefit the mother country, a system called ____.
What is mercantilism?
This Northeast confederation lived in longhouses and practiced farming.
Who are the Iroquois?
By 1450, Portugal led early maritime exploration using these 3 new technologies.
What are the caravel, astrolabe, and compass?
This European power focused on trade and conversion rather than large settlements.
What is France?
In 1680, Pueblo people in this region revolted against Spanish rule and successfully reclaimed their lands for a time.
What is the Southwest (New Mexico)?
These laws restricted colonial trade so that only English ships and merchants could participate.
What are the Navigation Acts?
These Southwest groups built adobe homes, used irrigation, and grew corn.
Who are the Pueblo and Hopi?
Spain used this system to control labor and land in the Americas, often exploiting Native populations.
What is the Encomienda System?
This European power primarily established trading posts rather than large settlements in North America.
What is the Dutch?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia was led by frontier settlers upset about Native attacks and colonial government favoritism.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 18th-century religious revival in the colonies emphasized personal faith and emotional worship.
What is the Great Awakening?
In the Pacific Northwest, these two groups were known for fishing, totem poles, and potlatch ceremonies.
Who are the Chinook and Haida?
Spain’s colonies were organized by strict social hierarchies mixing Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. This system was called the ____ system.
What is the Casta system?
This European power established settlements along the Atlantic coast of North America for agriculture and permanent communities.
What is England?
England and the Dutch Republic fought a series of conflicts from 1652-1674 over trade dominance.
What are the Anglo-Dutch Wars?
Colonial economies often relied on these laborers, who worked in exchange for passage to the Americas for a fixed number of years.
What is indentured servitude?
This type of house, common in the Northeast, allowed multiple families from one clan to live together.
What is a longhouse?
This type of slavery treated enslaved people as property for life, inheritable by their children.
What is chattel slavery?
Colonists growing this cash crop in English colonies created the demand for labor that fueled the rise of chattel slavery.
What is tobacco?
This long-running rivalry between England and France in the Americas included wars such as King William’s War and Queen Anne’s War.
What is the Anglo-French rivalry?
Tobacco, fur, and fishing were major economic products in these colonies, showing the regional differences in resources and labor.
What are the English colonies?