EARLY ENCOUNTERS
What term describes the movement of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What cash crop helped Jamestown become economically successful?
What is tobacco?
Which colonial region relied heavily on plantation agriculture and enslaved African labor while producing crops such as rice and indigo?
What are the Southern Colonies?
What policy allowed the colonies relative freedom to govern themselves before the French and Indian War?
What is salutary neglect?
What group name was given to colonial leaders who supported independence?
Who were the Patriots?
Which European country established the encomienda system to control and exploit Indigenous labor?
What is Spain?
What system encouraged immigration by granting land to people who paid for their own or someone else's passage?
What is the headright system?
Which colonial region had a cold climate and rocky soil and relied heavily on shipbuilding, fishing, lumber, and small-scale farming?
What is New England?
What British policy attempted to prevent further conflict between colonists and Native Americans over western land?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Which British military leader surrendered at Yorktown?
Who was Charles Cornwallis?
What three advantages did many Europeans have over Indigenous peoples of the Americas?
What are guns, germs, and steel?
What was the primary purpose of the Virginia Company?
What was economic profit for investors?
Which colonial region was known for its diverse ethnic and religious populations?
What are the Middle Colonies
Which act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers?
What is the Quartering Act?
The Continental Army lacked food and ammunition but had strengths in 3 critical areas. What were they?
Strong leadership, knowledge of the land, motivation
What European country did not have colonies in North America?
What is Portugal?
An indentured servant agreed to work for a limited period in exchange for what?
What is passage to America + (food and shelter)?
Which region included Virginia and Maryland and was heavily dependent on tobacco as a cash crop?
What is the Chesapeake region?
What form of resistance/protest did colonists use against the Stamp Act?
What were boycotts on British goods (not using the stamps at all)?
Most Native Americans who chose a side during the American Revolution sided with whom?
Who were the British?
European nations became interested in establishing colonies in the Americas for what reasons? (3 reasons)
What are wealth, power, and religion? (God Gold Glory)
What representative assembly established in Virginia became an important step toward self-government?
What is the House of Burgesses?
These two colonial regions both had warm climates, and both used enslaved African labor as a source of labor.
What are the Southern and Chesapeake Colonies?
Name 3 British acts used to control or tax the colonies?
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Townshend Acts
How did the Declaration of Independence expand the meaning of "freedom"? (purpose)
It emphasized basic, unalienable human rights that could not be taken away by government.