Southern slavery began in __________ when a Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists.

Rice cultivation in South Carolina was difficult and unhealthy, and thus planters continually imported slaves to maintain the labor force.

Native Americans lacked the immunities the Europeans and Africans had developed over centuries of deadly epidemics, and so when Europeans arrived, carrying smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis, plagues decimated Native communities.  Many died in war and slavery, but millions died in epidemics.  All told, in fact, some scholars estimate that as much as ______________ of the population of the Americas perished within the first century and a half of European contact.

The Puritans were the British colonial group most comfortable with religious and ethnic pluralism.

In 1664, the English seized the Dutch colony of New Netherland without a fight. This colony became known as New Hampshire.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is perhaps the most culturally important and extensively reproduced Mexican Catholic image.

The organizers of the Jamestown colony were motivated primarily by a desire to

In 1619, the establishment of this first legislature began the tradition of representative government in the English colonies.

Prior to European contact in the Eastern Woodlands, many Native American societies lived in smaller, dispersed communities to take advantage of rich soils and abundant rivers and streams.

Write using rational exponents.