Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Click Once to Begin JEOPARDY! The Diversity Of American Colonial Societies, 1530 - 1770

Template byBill Arcuri, WCSD

Click Once to BeginJEOPARDY!The Diversity Of American

Colonial Societies,

1530 - 1770


JEOPARDY!

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Transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the New and Old

Worlds


The most deadly of the epidemics in the

Americas


The two New World foods that

revolutionized Old World agriculture


This animal’s introduction

increased military capacity and

hunting efficiency in the New World


The European nation that occupied most

of the Brazilian coast by 1700


These Amerindian beliefs survived

beneath the surface despite imposed

Christianity


A government entity created in 1524 by Spain to put royal

power in place over the empire in Mesoamerica


This 1535 viceroyalty

encompassed Mexico, C. America, and the Caribbean


The organization most responsible for

transmitting European beliefs, language , and

culture in Spanish America and Brazil


He was the most influential defender of Amerindians in the early colonial

period


The richest institution of the Spanish

colonies


The two most important economic

generators in Mexico and Peru


A form of forced labor and tribute granted by the

Spanish crown to reward the earliest

conquerors


A forced labor system originating

from the Inca where male Amerindians worked six months of the year in the

mines


17th century sugar plantations

depended upon this source of labor


The means by which Spain attempted to protect and control

trade to the colonies


They were Spain’s ‘lesser’ nobles


They were American-born Spanish whites


The term used by which slaves could

purchase their freedom


The two groups of mixed race peoples

who made up the castas of Latin

America


One of the two early failed attempts at

English colonization


A form of compulsory labor used by the early English colonies in the

Americas before a ‘more profitable’ labor

system arose in the late 1600s


The elected representatives in Virginia’s colonial

government


A valuable plant used to produce a

dye in the Americas


The largest slave rebellion in North America was this

South Carolinian revolt of 1739


This ethnic group of Europeans were the first to settle the Mid

Atlantic region


The literal translation for

‘coureurs de bois’, or Frenchmen living among the natives


The Amerindians who were early allies

of the Dutch and later the English:

their confederation often fought the

French


They were missionaries who

established schools, hospitals, and

churches in French Canada


Their loss in this war led to the French

losing both Canada and Louisiana to

their rivals

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