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American before the Europeans -time: 15,000 years ago, last ice age -way: land bridge connecting Asia to Alaska -location characters: dispersed, distinct cultural and social practices -tribes: Northwest Coast: fishing; totem poles depicting supernatural crestures California: acorns Southwest: irrigation farming, trade with Mexico Great Basin, Plateau: hunting small mammals, gathering seeds nuts Plains: powerful hunter Eastern Woodlands: skilled in agriculture, mature trading networks Mesoamerica: architecture, stone pyramids Inca of Peru: extensive network of towns Colonial Period（Columbus landed ~ French Indian War） -Christopher Columbus, landed 1492 -Age of Exploration, 1492, for trade routes, overseas wealth, and adventure -Joint-stock companies, to gather funding for colonization through the sale of public stock -smallpox, devastating disease kills Native Americans -Royal Colonies, owned by the king -Proprietary Colonies, PA, MD DE, huge tracts of land grants from the British government for political or financial favor; governors reported directly to the King. -Self-governing Colonies, RI CT, granted a charter to a joint-stock company, set up government independent of the crown, but the King can revoke the charter at any time to convert it into a royal colony -Jamestown, the Virginia Company of London -John Smith, ensure the colony had food and shelter and control sanitation and hygiene, ties friendly with the nearby Powhatan Confederacy -Powhatan Confederacy -First Anglo-Powhatan War, 1610 -House of Burgesses, first representative government in the New World, but the VA co. still overrules. -American Slaves, 1940s -tobacco -Tragic Year, 1622 (2nd war with P, tobacco price slump, fraudulent practices, high death rate), King James I revoke the charter, make VA a royal colony -Mayflower, Plymouth Plantation -Anglican Church, the Church of England -Separatist Groups, Pilgrims, Quakers, Baptists -Puritans, purify the A