Who am I?
Major religious sects that used America as a place for worship. They were upset with practices in Britain.
What are Puritans?
1637 Native American uprising against colonists
What was the Pequot War?
Cash crop that made a profit and saved Jamestown
what is tobacco?
Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought?
what are Calvinists?
first official english colony in America
What is Jamestown?
Colonists who exchanged several years of labor, usually 7, for the cost of passage to America and the eventual grant of land
What are indentured servants?
(1737) emblematic of both colonists' desire for cheap land and the changing relationship between the Pennsylvania and their Native neighbors.
What is the Walking Purchase?
The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588; defeated by the terrible winds and fire ships.
What is the Spanish Armada?
Most slaves were taken from which region in Africa?
what is west africa?
What was the most common means for colonists to acquire Native American slaves?
what is war?
you might confuse this 1676 Rebellion leader with a breakfast food
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
In New England, people were beginning to fear the supernatural. People were being tried for being witches, with 25 people dying as a cause. The trials are because of local rivalries, political turmoil, the trauma of war, and faulty legal procedure
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
a type of investment scheme where men could by stocks to fund and share profit in an establishing of a new colony
What is a joint stock company?
What crop led to the creation of large plantations and great wealth for the elite in the Carolinas?
what is rice?
consolidated the New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey into one administrative unit to counter French Canada, but colonists strongly resented the loss of their individual provinces
What is the domination of New England?
A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
Who was William Penn?
A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange
What was the Glorious Revolution?
Colony (ultimately split in two) used as outpost for West Indies trade. Where American slavery is said to have started.
what are the Carolinas?
Puritans led the revolt against King Charles I in what is now called
What was the English Civil War?
Slave status was tracked through which family member?
what is a mother?
She was a radical and was exiled from Massachusetts, and went to Rhode Island to settle. She and her followers settled near Providence.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
A series of attacks from 1715-1716 led by Catawbas, Creeks, and other Indian allies on English trading houses and settlements. Only by enlisting the aid of the Cherokee Indians, and allowing four hundred slaves to bear arms, did the colony crush the uprising.
what is the Yamasee War?
The Walking Purchase of 1737 seized land from Indians in which colony?
What is Pennsylvania?
Bacon's Rebellion and King Phillip's War occurred at approximately the same time, in Virginia and Massachusetts respectively. Both conflicts grew out of which of the following causes?
what is hostility to natives?
What is the current estimate of the number of Africans forcibly relocated from Africa to the New World?
what is 11-12 million?