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1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact - ANSWERSExplain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America Explain how the spread of maize impacted the American Southwest - ANSWERSThe new crop that Europeans brought during the Columbian Exchange allowed for migrating Natives to learn how to farm/ nurture crops. in return Europeans received new crops to take back to the old world, the main one bei...

Great Columbian / Biological Exchange - ANSWERSExchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492. Christopher Columbus - ANSWERSItalian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent Bartolomeo de las Casas - ANSWERS16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people Spani...

Massachusetts Bay Colony - ANSWERSEstablished in 1629 by the Puritans. Governor John Winthrop called it a "city upon a hill." Established for religious purposes. Puritans - ANSWERSReligious dissidents who traveled to the New World to develop a purer church than the Church of England. Indentured Servents - ANSWERSExchanged work for passage to the New World. London Company - ANSWERSPermitted by King James I to establish Jamestown for economic reasons. Powhatan Confederacy - ANSWERSNa...

Iroquios Confederacy - ANSWERSA powerful alliance of Indian tribes that was the only one to remain neutral during the French and Indian War (Seven years' war). The tribe had previously been subject of a peace treaty with the British and were noted as one of three powers of North America. After the Seven Years' War the alliance with the Iroquois and the British diminished and they began contesting each other for power over the Ohio Valey. Columbian Exchange - ANSWERSAn exchange of goods, ide...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense - ANSWERSPublished in early 1776. Presented many arguments in favor of independence. Became a quick bestseller. Presented arguments in that had early been developed in a way less educated people could understand. Richard Henry Lee - ANSWERSRuled that the United Colonies aught to be free and independent states. Was in the Continental Congress Committee of Five - ANSWERSThe five who were appointed to draft the declaration of independence. Consisted of Benjamin Fr...