To move from place to place in search of food

weather conditions

Everything around you in nature

people who live in a new place.

the beliefs, customs, arts, ways of life of a particular society, group, place, or time.

changes to survive

Reason for wanting to do something

a method of supplying water to crops using man-made canals and ditches

an empire in Mexico known for being fierce warriors.

an empire in Peru known for terrace farming and road system.

a civilization in Mexico known for creating the 365 calendar and using the number zero.

a Spanish explorer looking for riches and glory.

a system in which Spanish nobles owned the land and forced Natives to work it.

resistant to a particular infection or disease

the trade of goods, ideas, and diseases between Europe and the Americas

How money is made in an area

Form of government

Continent with major countries such as Spain, Britain, France, and Portugal

the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another.

something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field.

a country or area under the full or partial control of another country (typically a distant one)

To take over another country

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut Rhode Island. Used the sea for fishing, whaling and shipbuilding. Had rocky soil and lots of timber.

Founded by Quakers for religious freedom for all. Know as the breadbasket colonies for its farming of grain. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware.

Known for large plantations and fertile soil. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Quaker founder of Pennsylvania

People who settled in New England colonies who were left the church of England to make it more pure

People who travel to another location for religious reasons

People in the middle colony who believed all men are equal

People who owe money

Allowing and accepting different religions

The ability to grow crops in soil

Another word for farming

The trade of goods and people from Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas and from the Americas to Europe

The brutal, overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on slave ships, in which hundreds of Africans were packed tightly into tiers below decks for a voyage

the war fought between Britain and France over control of the Ohio River Valley

fought over by French, English, and Native Americans

an organized institution that creates rules in order to establish order in societies.

a government in which citizens have a say

Agreed upon form of self government by people on the Mayflower ship. peaceful agreement

representative democracy used in Jamestown modeled after the Parliament

a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people

citizens govern themselves

part of the British government in which members make laws for the British people as well as for its colonies

country attempts to amass wealth through trading with other countries.

Age of reason and individualism.

a religious and social movement that held that all were equal in the sight of God.

Law that prevented British colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

required colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards