New England
This church denomination was responsible for the casting out leaders, like Roger Williams, who challenged them.
Who are the Puritans or Separatist?
French and Dutch colonial relationships with American Indians were based primarily on trade alliance for this good.
What are furs?
This crop ensured the survival of the economy of the Virginian colony.
What is tobacco?
This southern colony was the last one and created as a buffer zone against the Spanish.
What is Georgia?
Process of gaining wealth for the mother country through buying resources from colonies for cheap and selling finished goods for higher prices.
What is mercantilism?
The economy of the New England colonies was based specifically on these things: (name any one)
What are...
timber, fishing, subsistence farming, ship building
This is the nickname given this set of colonies based on their "raw materials" brought to market.
What is the bread basket?
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
These two labor intensive crops helped create the desire for a restrictive slave system in the Southern colonies. (You need both to get this correct)
rice and indigo
The British legislation that mandated that all goods imported to the colonies be carried on English ships, creating exclusivity and shaping colonial economic interactions.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Although technically not a constitution, this was a landmark written agreement among Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims for majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Daily Double: This "capital" of the British colonies and other cities were important because they were cultural hubs where goods were distributed from.
Bonus: This famous printer and city leader helped build the power of the press in the English colonies.
Philadelphia
Bonus: Ben Franklin
This was the first representative assembly in North America, created in Virginia (1619).
What is the House of Burgesses?
This part of the triangular trade involved the transfer of Africans for sale from West Africa to the English colonies.
What is the middle passage?
Daily Double: John Locke came up with this Enlightenment idea about government's purpose that was later used in the Declaration of Independence.
Bonus: Who was the main Declaration of Independence writer?
natural rights or "life, liberty and property"
Bonus: Thomas Jefferson
Daily Double: This type of preachers moved away from the traditional colonial church during the Great Awakening.
Bonus: This stoic preacher started preaching in NE and his sermon was titled "Sinners in the Hands of an angry God"
New Light Clergy
Bonus: Jonathan Edwards
The belief that some of the power given to the government by the people requires that government to protect their rights.
What is a social contract?
In 1649, this became the first law granting a degree of religious toleration in the colonies. Revoked the next year when Protestants took over this colony's government.
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
This was the first major slave rebellion in the South that resulted in further restrictions on slaves.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
During the era before the French and Indian War, this resulted in the colonies being left alone to develop their own economic and political institutions.
What is salutary neglect?
This conflict resulted in the lasting defeat of New England's Indians and the beheading of Wampanoag Chief.
What is King Philip's War or Metacom's War?
This is the English system involved in the loss of communal land and part of the reason for immigration to the colonies with more land.
What is the enclosure system?
This is the type of colony that Virginia, as a joint stock company, and Massachusetts were originally created as.
What is a charter colony?
These English holdings were the template for slave codes and treatment in the Southern colonies, which was more strict than other colonial regions.
Where are the British West Indies?
This church was the dominant church in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies (and New York).
What is the Anglican Church?