Colonial Life
This term describes the system that regulated and confined African people in America during colonization.
What is chattel slavery?
System of how money is made and used within a particular country or region.
What is the economy?
Groups who are the original or earliest known inhabitants of an area, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently
Who are indigenous Peoples?
Many colonists, such as the Quakers, moved to the US in search of this kind of social freedom.
What is religious freedom?
This group of people lacked the rights of Americans yet were incredibly important to the colonial economy.
Who are enslaved people?
an unwritten rule about how people should behave in a group or society
What is a Social Norm?
The electoral system of the colonies where colonists elected representatives in colonial legislatures even as they lacked direct representation in England.
What is a representative government?
Slavery was less important to the economy of these colonies.
What are the New-England Colonies?
Negative reasons for people to move from a location.
What are push factors?
These colonies known as the "breadbasket colonies" due to their large-scale production of wheat, barley, and rye.
What are the Middle Colonies?
A female colonist in the New England Colonies that fought for her beliefs against strict gender norms based in religious systems and structures that limited the power of women in society
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
a system of ranking people or things based upon importance or status
What is a hierarchy?
Slavery was more common in the southern colonies in large part for this reason.
What is the southern colonies' dependence on agriculture?
Positive reasons for people to move to a location.
What are pull factors?
These are some ways in which Enslaved Africans passively resisted slavery.
What are working slowly, damaging equipment, pretending to misunderstand instructions? (any or all work as answers)
Any action of the government such as making laws or providing services.
What is State Action?
A violent conflict between the Pequot people and the English colonists who had allied with other indigenous groups- leading to near destruction of the Pequot people.
What is the Pequot War?
Slavery expanded in the American Colonies for these reasons.
What is the fact that slavers wanted to maximize profit and did not have to pay enslaved people?
The benefits England received from the Triangular Trade Routes.
What are raw materials used to create finished products?
An violent conflict between the Pequot people and the English colonists who had allied with other indigenous groups- leading to near destruction of the Pequot people.
Who is Elizabeth Freeman?
These settlers were more tolerant of others' religious beliefs than this other group of Settlers. Both groups moved here for religious reasons. (two answers)
Who are the Quakers and the Puritans? (in that order)
A 1676 rebellion against the governor due to his inability to protect colonists from attacks by Indigenous peoples
What is Bacon's rebellion?
What are long and cold winters and/or poor/rocky soil?
Name two negative impacts of Colonization on Indigenous People.
What are the destruction of local environments which hurt Native Americans' way of life, killing Native Americans, constant war between indigenous people and colonizers, etc are all acceptable answers
These people crafted goods, these people managed households but had limited rights, and these people worked for passage to America. (3 answers)
Who are Artisans, Women, and Indentured Servants?