Colonial America: Key Concepts and Historical Figures

Encomienda

The system that Spain used to divide land and enslave Native Peoples.

The Netherlands

The country that was religiously tolerant.

Castas

The system that Spain established to organize a racial hierarchy.

20

The number of 'witches' executed in Salem.

Cahokia

The capital of the Mississippian Indians (Mound Builders).

jesuits

The missionaries sent from France.

Columbian exchange

The name for the transfer of animals, plants, etc. across the Atlantic after first contact.

Coffee

The item that was NOT introduced to Indians by Europeans.

Town Meetings

One of the descriptions that does NOT apply to Jamestown.

Corn, Beans, Squash

The Three Sisters.

John Winthrop

The person who said that the Massachusetts Bay Colony shall be as a 'City upon a hill'.

mercantilism

The economic theory that justified colonization.

Vitamin B Deficiency

The cause that was NOT a possible cause of the Salem Witch Trials.

1619

The year the first Africans arrived in Virginia.

Falling tobacco prices.

The cause that was NOT a possible cause of the shift from Indentured servitude to slavery.

The Treaty of Tordesillas

The treaty that divided the New World between the Spanish and Portuguese.

Anne Hutchinson

The person who was NOT a Puritan.

Jamestown had mostly single men while Mass Bay had family groups.

A prominent difference between Jamestown and Mass Bay.