John Rolfe brought seeds for which cash crop (later called “green gold”) to Jamestown, saving the colony from economic ruin?
When large number of Native American workers died off, who did Europeans turn to in order to fill the labor shortage?
What are factors that motivate people to leave their home countries?
In the Spanish Casta System, what were people born of Spanish and Native parents called?
Which two non-English countries settled in the area between the English Chesapeake and New England between 1600 and 1660?
Which European nation looked for a direct sea route to Asia by traveling west across the Ocean Sea?
Immigrants from which country dominated immigration into the Thirteen Colonies up until 1660?
The Columbian Exchange included the exchange of what things between the “Old” World and the Americas?
Which English island colony was a failure in 1584 and again in 1587?
Which explorer established Spain’s land claim in the “New” World?
What types of Spanish settlements succeeded in the New Mexico Colony?
Who were the hunters who arrived in the Americas 15,000-60,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age?
Whose journal, entitled Of Plimoth Plantation, was the basis for the history of the Pilgrims?
What allowed Native American civilizations to create permanent settlements?
Why didn’t the Separatists want to remain in the Netherlands?
Which document was signed on the Mayflower to form a system of self-government before the passengers disembarked from the ship?
What drastically reduced the native population of the Americas after European contact?
The French claimed land in North America based on which explorer’s voyage on the St. Lawrence River?
Which group of colonists wanted to purify and improve the Church of England?
What type of colony did the French establish in New France?
Which three powerful West African kingdoms developed along the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
Which European nation looked for a direct sea route to Asia by traveling around the tip of Africa?
Which group of colonists wanted to break away from the Church of England because they believed that it could not be fixed?
Which two significant wars between Native Americans and colonists took place in New England in the 1600s?
Authority to settle in a place that is granted by a king and given on a formal legal certificate is called what?
