Colonial Regions
Small towns, family farms, fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce characterized this colonial region, initially settled largely by Puritans.
What are the New England colonies?
This trade pattern linked European manufactured goods, the forced transport of enslaved Africans to the Americas, and the shipment of colonial commodities to Europe.
What is Triangular Trade?
This labor arrangement required a worker to serve for a specified period in exchange for passage or other support; it was common among early tobacco laborers.
What is Indentured Servitude?
These laws established a racial hierarchy, prohibited interracial relationships, defined slavery as inheritable, and placed restrictions on free Blacks such as a prohibition against arming themselves.
What are slave codes?
This New England war, fought from 1636 to 1638, was an early example of violent conflict between English colonists and Native peoples over land and power.
What is the Pequot War?
Tobacco exports made this region prosperous, first relying heavily on indentured servants and later increasingly on enslaved Africans.
What is the Chesapeake?
This system says that colonial powers should prioritize exports over imports AND that colonies exist to provide raw materials and markets for manufactured goods for their mother countries.
What is mercantilism?
This major 1739 uprising in South Carolina was an example of overt resistance by enslaved people.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This was the first democratically elected legislature in the British North American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This series of conflicts in the 1620s, led to increasing tensions between English colonists and Native peoples in VA.
What are the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
Rice and indigo plantations in these colonies depended heavily on enslaved African labor; enslaved communities also developed distinctive cultural traditions, including Gullah culture.
What are the Southern colonies?
This economic system allowed colonists to exchange goods rather than money for items that they needed. It was the main system used by the Puritans in the New England colonies.
What is the barter system?
This system rewarded land owners with 50 acres of land if they imported indentured servants to the Chesapeake.
What is the headright system?
This religious revival movement spread evangelical Protestantism across the colonies and featured preachers such as George Whitefield.
What is the First Great Awakening?
After Metacom's War, the Iroquois Confederacy signed this treaty to try and prevent further conflict and protect their trade with the British colonists.
What is the Covenant Chain?
Wheat and other cereal crops supported this region’s merchant-based economy, while its diverse population included many European ethnic and religious groups.
What are the Middle Colonies?
British efforts to enforce mercantilist policies often met with colonial evasion of trade restrictions; this practice helped make imperial enforcement inconsistent.
What is smuggling?
By the 1700s, these types of settlements were characterized by ethnic and religious diversity, large enslaved populations, and an upper class of merchants and landlords, regardless of which colonial region they were in.
What are port cities?
New England communities used these local gatherings, as opposed to more formal legislatures, like the House of Burgesses, as forms of self-government.
What are Town Hall meetings?
Although relations between Native peoples and settlers were generally more positive in Pennsylvania, after William Penn's death, relations soured. This fraudulant treaty was a major source of conflict after 1737.
What is the Walking Treaty?
This region focused heavily on sugar cane production. It's brutal system of enslavement would eventually spread to regions like South Carolina and Georgia, where slaves sometimes outnumbered white owners 20:1.
What are the British West Indies?
These British laws sought to channel colonial trade through England and support imperial economic goals. These laws made it mandatory to ship British goods on British ships, stop in British ports, and sent customs officials to prevent smuggling.
What are the Navigation Acts?
These immigrants would borrow the cost of transportation to the New World from a shipping company. Unlike in indentured servitude, they would then need to find their own employer and pay back their debt on their own.
What are Redemptioners?
This process brought the colonies closer to English cultural and political norms through trade, print culture, Protestant evangelicalism, and English-style political institutions.
What is Anglicization?
This short-lived rebellion against wealthy interests and landlords in NY was put down by new Royal Governors. However, it soon spread to NJ and demonstrated that wealth inequality would be a continuing problem in the colonies.