Diverse Cultures
Early Colonies
Slavery
Indigenous Response
Vocabulary
100

This was the leading cause of death among indigenous people in the Americas after the arrival of European settlers.

What is disease?

100

This cash crop saved the early colonists in both the middle and southern colonies (no so much Massachusetts).

What was tobacco?

100

This region saw the most use of slavery to the point where giving it up would ruin the economy that had been built.

What was the South?

100

Treaties between colonists and indigenous leaders always favored this side. (no steals)

Who were the colonists...duh?

100

This word is used to describe a community of people living in a certain place - it also has connotations that that place did not belong to them.

What is settlement?

200

This region was so resource rich that Native Americans had densely populated, permanent settlements but got most of their resources from hunting and gathering, NOT farming

What was California/Northwest Coast?

200

This was the primary goal of most early European settlers.

What was $$$$? (for their shareholders)

200

The largest and most violent uprising of the enslaved in the British Colonies.

What was the Stono Rebellion?

200

One of the most important positive adaptations by indigenous peoples in response to the arrival of European settlers was the introduction of this animal.

What were horses?

200

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is an example of this.

What is a coalition?

300

The colonists changed the indigenous uses of tobacco for religious ceremony, medicine, gifts, peace offering, etc. to this instead.

What was profit ($$$$$)?

300

This was the colonial region originally established as a "City on the Hill" to be an example of religious morality.

What was New England (or Massachusetts, or Plymouth)?

300

Before slavery became commonplace in the colonies, labor was mostly done by these almost-slaves.

Who were indentured servants?

300

This is the name for the form of government and also the founding document of the Five (then Six) Nations that formed the Haudenosaunee.

What is the Great Law of Peace?

300

This was the most common form (category) of resistance by the enslaved in the colonies.

What was covert resistance?

400

These staple crops are commonly known as the Three Sisters.

What are corn, beans, and squash?
400

This was the PRIMARY reason there were significantly more enslaved people in the Southern colonies than the North.

What was cash crops (there are a few other answers I will also consider).

400

The term for portion of the triangle trade that was the long and deadly voyage from Africa to the "New" World.

What was the "middle passage?"

400
Also known as the "First Indian War" this is the common name for the Wampanoag (and allies) uprising against colonial encroachment that eventually led to decimating the native population of New England.

What was King Philip's War?

400

This is a term for the results of an action (both good or bad).

What is consequences? (I know the grammar is awkward).

500

Indigenous people of this region built thick walled adobe houses or lived in canyon settlements.

What was the Southwest?

500

This was the name of the first English Settlement in the Americas (that didn't all die).

What was Jamestown?  

The entire settlement of Roanoke dissappeared mysteriously the only clue being the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree...

500

This region of the Americas saw the most enslave shipped to it by way of the Triangle trade, mostly exporting sugar cane.

What was the Caribbean?

500

He was the (probably mythological) spiritual founder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Who was Hiawatha?

500

This term describes when someone crosses a line (literal or metaphorical).

What is encroachment?