Unit 1 1491-1607

Chesapeake

________ and Carolinas farmed labor- intensive crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo.

Christopher Columbus

________ arrived in the New World in 1492.

North America

________ was populated by Native Americans.

tobacco & rice expansion

meant more laborers were needed

Unit 1

A section of the AP exam that makes up 4-6% of the total exam.

Christopher Columbus

An explorer who arrived in the New World in 1492 and opened up the possibility of European colonization in the Americas.

Native Americans

The indigenous people of North America who had their own societies, cultures, and religions before the arrival of European settlers.

European colonization

The process by which European settlers brought culture, religion, and technology to the New World and established colonies.

Columbian Exchange

The rapid exchange of plants, animals, foods, people, and diseases between the Old World (Africa, Asia, and Europe) and the New World.

Enslaved Africans

People who were brought to the New World from Africa and forced to work as slaves on plantations.

Bacon's Rebellion

An uprising in 1676 in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon, which showed that it was not in the interests of landowners to have landless, young, white males in the colonies.

Middle Passage

A shipping route that brought enslaved Africans from Africa to the New World, which was a brutal and inhumane condition for the Africans.

Encomienda System

A system in which the Spanish took control of the natives in the New World, got land from the Spanish crown, and in return had to Christianize the natives.