Topic one

Cahokia (Great Plains)

-Largest Settlement North of Mexico

-8000 AD-1000 AD

Great Plain Indians

Hunters & Gathers

Tepees

Southeast Tribes

Cherokees + Chickasaw

Houses- Wattle and Claub

Permanent

Northeast Tribes (woodlands)

Iroquious + Powhatan + Wampanoag

homes- permanent and domed shaped

The three sisters

Corn, beans and squash

Iroquois Confederacy

Mohawk + Oneida + Onondoga + Cayuga + Seneca

formed to protect land

Southwest Tribes

Hohokam + Anasazi + Hopi + Navaho

farmers

Homes- pueblos and cliff dwellings

Columbian Exchange

Exchange was not positively taken by Native Americans. Livestock was given to the new world, corn potatoes given to england.

Spain

-Where? SW, Florida

-Who? Conquestors

-Why? Land, wealth

-Eco? Sugar

-Native interactions?- subjugation

France

-Where? Missippli & Canada

-Who? Trappers/hunters & jesuits

-Why? Wealth & religion

-Eco? fur

-Native interactions? cooperation

Britain

-Where? Atlantic Coast/ East coast

-Who? families

-Why? Land & religion freedom

-Eco? tabaco

-Native interactions? diplomacy & war

Indentured Servitude

Basically slaves but paid, given when new comers came to new world for new land. worked for 5-7 years

Bacon’s Rebellion

-Former indentured live on frontier

-outcome: the move away from indentured servitude: slave labor becomes a major part of economy

The Middle Passage

Voyage of Africans to the new world for slavery (20% died)

Stono Rebellion

Slaves killed their owners to escape to florida in promise of freedom.

Outcome: Domestic slave trading, harsher discipline, no longer taught english, breeding