Religion
What religion did the Spanish missionaries try to convert Native Americans to?
Catholicism
What economic system did England use to manage its colonies?
Mercantilism.
Which colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620
Plymouth
Why did England start colonies in North America?
England wanted more land, wealth, and power.
European nations sought this precious metal, often summarized as part of "God, Gold, and Glory.
What is gold?
What religious group dominated in early Massachusetts?
Puritans
Why did slavery become more common in the colonies during the late 1600s?
Plantation owners needed a permanent and reliable labor force.
Which colony was founded by Roger Williams as a haven for religious dissenters and outcasts?
Rhode Island
What economic motive encouraged colonization?
to find resources and make money through trade and cash crops.
Many English settlers came to North America seeking this freedom to practice their beliefs.
What is religious freedom?
What group, led by William Penn in Pennsylvania, preached inner light and religious tolerance?
Quakers
Compare the labor systems of indentured servitude and slavery in the colonies.
Indentured servants worked for a limited time in exchange for passage, while enslaved Africans were forced into lifelong, hereditary labor
Which colony was established as a refuge for debtors?
Georgia
This 1676 rebellion exposed tensions in Virginia and encouraged planters to rely more heavily on enslaved labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What type of business, funded by multiple investors sharing the risk, motivated the founding of Jamestown to make a profit?
Joint-Stock Company
What name was given to the agreement that let colonial kids get baptized even if their parents weren't full church members?
The Half-Way Covenant
How did the Triangular Trade contribute to colonial economic growth?
connected the colonies to global markets and increased trade profits.
What first representative assembly in colonial America that was established in Virginia in 1619 to make local laws?
The House of Burgesses
Colonial labor shifted from indentured servants to enslaved Africans largely because this type of labor provided a permanent, inheritable workforce
What is chattel slavery?
Spain established missions in the Americas primarily to spread this religion
What is Christianity?
What region in western New York, famous for intense Second Great Awakening religious revivals, served as the birthplace of Mormonism?
The Burned-Over District
England passed these laws to regulate colonial trade and ensure goods flowed through English ports.
What are the Navigation Acts?
What name did King James II give to the unified mega-colony he created in 1686 to strip New England of its self-governance?
The Dominion of New England
This group became the primary source of labor in the Southern colonies by the early 1700s.
Who were enslaved Africans?
Competition for wealth, territory, and power among European nations is often described by this term.
What is national rivalry?