Native Societies & Contact
This crop transformed Native American societies, enabling population growth and permanent settlements.
What is maize (corn)?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607
What is Jamestown?
This 18th-century religious revival movement emphasized emotional faith and personal experience
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia showed tensions between frontier farmers and elites.
What is Bacons Rebellion?
This 1735 trial strengthened freedom of the press in the colonies.
What is the Zegner Case
Which European nation first dominated colonization of the Americas?
What is Spain?
This profitable crop saved Jamestown but required intensive labor
What is tobacco?
This preacher became famous for his emotional sermons during the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
What is the significance of the French and Indian War?
What is it was a turning point between colonies and Britain.
These trade laws were designed to enforce mercantilism by restricting colonial trade to England.
This Spanish system rewarded settlers with Native labor
What is the encomienda system?
This colony was founded as a refuge for Catholics
What is Maryland
John Locke was significant to what movement?
What is the Enlightenment
(In religion because opposite of it)
This system gave land to settlers who paid for an immigrant’s passage
What is the Headright system?
This 1619 assembly in Virginia was the first representative government in English America.
What is the House of Burgess?
He was a Spanish priest who spoke out against Native mistreatment.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
Three major effects of the Colombian Exchange?
What is: rise of capitalism, mix of diseases, mix of cultures, what is need for more labor
This 1662 agreement allowed partial church membership in New England.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
This brutal voyage brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic?
Note: Triangular slave trade was different! The triangular slave trade was humans and other good for trading. Middle passage was a brutal voyage that was only African Americans.
William Penn’s “Holy Experiment” was based on the values of this religious group.
What is the Quakers?
This 1680 Native revolt in New Mexico temporarily drove the Spanish out
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This 1620 agreement established self-government for Plymouth settlers
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 17th-century New England minister was banished from Massachusetts Bay for advocating religious freedom and fair treatment of Native Americans, later founding a colony known for its broad religious toleration
Who is Roger Williams
This 1661 law in the Caribbean served as a model for harsh slave codes in the colonies.
What is the Barbados Slave Codes
This economic theory held that colonies existed to enrich the mother country
What is mercantilism?