Early Civilization and Exploration
Exploration and Colonies
The Enlightenment and the Colonies
The Great Awakening and the Colonies
The Colonies
100
Early hunter-gathers crossed the ________________________ from ______________ into North America.
What is Bering Land Bridge (Beringia) from Asia to North America
100
What new inventions enabled Europeans to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the caravel, astrolabe, compass
100
Using reason and logic instead of religion was common among __________________________________ thinkers
What is Enlightenment
100
How did New York become an English colony?
English ships forced Dutch to surrender
100
Period from 1620-1643 where over 20,000 English settled in New England
What is The Great Migration
200
Why did Native Americans develop a variety of differing cultures?
What is Different geographic regions
200
Resolved control of the “New World” between Spain and Portugal
What is The Treaty of Tordesillas
200
What are the “natural rights” of a citizen according to John Locke?
What is Life, Liberty, Property
200
Passed by the British to ensure that the colonies could only trade with England
What is The Navigation Acts
200
Brought in by James Rolfe, this cash crop saved the Jamestown colony
What is Tobacco
300
What benefits did African slaves have over indentured servants?
What is Slaves were cheaper, could not escape, could provide generations of workers
300
Exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between Europe and the Americas
What is The Columbian Exchange
300
Limited the rights of the monarchy, who now couldn’t levy taxes without consent from Parliament
What is The English Bill of Rights
300
Passed in 1649 in Maryland, this document protected the rights of all Christians to practice their religion
What is The Toleration Act
300
Document signed by the original settlers where they agreed to submit and obey to the government they chose
What is The Mayflower Compact
400
How where Native Americans treated by Europeans?
What is Seen as inferior; forced to convert to Christianity; died from disease, war, and forced slavery
400
How did England maintain a favorable balance of trade?
What is Establishing colonies, preventing the colonies from trading with other countries, and by exporting more than it imports
400
Signed in 1215, it was the first time there was a restriction placed on the king’s power
What is The Magna Carta
400
Policy where the English did not strictly enforce regulations in the colonies
What is Salutary neglect
400
An attack, led by former indentured servants, on Jamestown and Native Americans
What is Bacon's Rebellion
500
Why did English settlers want to come to America in 1600s?
Economic problems in England, opportunities in America, to escape religious prosecution, seeking farmland
500
How would the triangle trade and English mercantilist policies affect the development of the colonies?
What is Growth of the colonial economies created the need for more slaves; Colonies part of the triangle trade; colonies were established to provide a new market and raw materials
500
How did the Enlightenment influence colonial American ideas and development?
What is Use science and reason to solve humanity’s problems; People have certain natural rights – including the right to choose, protect, and revolt against government
500
How did the First Great Awakening impact colonial North America?
What is Increase in church membership – which led to competition among sects; an increased emotionalism in church services; linked the colonies with a shared experience
500
Compare the northern and southern colonial economies
What is North: subsistence farming, industry, port cities, fishing, timber, trade, part of triangle trade South: plantation farming (slaves & indentured servants), mostly small yeoman farms, cash crops, trade
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