First Four Weeks
The study of human change and continuity over the course of time.
What is history?
A condition in which one person is owned by another.
How does your professor define slavery?
Tobacco was the Virginia "cash crop."
What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies?
Who were the main combatants in the French and Indian War?
These shadow governments organized in opposition to British colonial government controlled colonial towns. They identified enemies of their movement and coordinated resistance.
What were the Committees of Correspondence in the British American colonies?
These threats to the Powhatan Empire included Iroquoian invaders from the north and south and Siouan speakers from the west. To the east, Europeans arrived with new technologies and alliances.
What were the threats facing Powhatan and his people at the time of the arrival of the English in the Chesapeake?
Massachusetts was the first.
What was the first colony on the British American mainland to recognize slavery as a legal institution
A reward system in which those who paid their own passage to Virginia received fifty acres plus an additional fifty for each servant or family member they brought with them.
What was the Headright System?
In this fateful moment in 1754, a young George Washington and his ally the Half King murdered a French Envoy from New France, setting off a chain of conflicts that led to war.
What prompted the French and Indian War?
This 1774 colonial policy decision included boycotting all British goods and preparing for possible military action.
Which of the following was decided at the First Continental Congress?
A disease epidemic in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore immunologically almost defenseless.
What is a Virgin Soil Epidemic?
Puritans sought to reform England and the Anglican Church while Separatists sought to withdraw entirely from England's corruption.
What was the difference between a “Separatist” and a “Puritan”?
This term refers to the restoration of Charles II to the English throne. After King Charles II took up the seat of his executed father, he rewarded loyal English aristocrats by giving them colonies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas.
To what does the term “Restoration” refer?
The causes of this conflict in 1763 included British settlers encroaching on Native American land, new British policies cutting off Native Americans from gifts of trade goods and supplies, and the new religion of Neolin, the prophet.
What were the causes of Pontiac’s War?
These Acts by British Parliament to punish Massachusetts in 1774 included the Administering of Justice Act [“Murder Act”], the Quartering Act, the Massachusetts government act, and the Boston Port Act.
What were the four coercive or "intolerable" acts?
Western Europeans mostly ended this practice during the Middle Ages because the Catholic Church forbid the enslavement of other Christians and because the feudal system relied on serfs, rather than slaves.
Why did western Europeans stop enslaving each other during the Middle Ages?
The motivations for colonization included Population Pressure; Protestant and Catholic Rivalry for the souls of the world; and a desire to profit from commodities in the New World (based upon the success of the Spanish and Portuguese).
What were three motivations for the English to settle the Americas?
A Protestant revival that emphasized emotional, experiential faith over book learning. The movement began in 1730s Europe and quickly took hold in British America.
What was the First Great Awakening?
This boundary created by British King George III blocked white settlers from claiming lands west of the Appalachian mountains. By blocking westward settlement, the King infuriated American colonists in the west.
Explain the significance of the King’s Proclamation Line of 1763?
The action of appropriating a place or domain for one’s own use. In the context of American history, the European action of settling among and establishing control over an indigenous people.
What is "Colonization?"
In this conflict in Virginia, Bacon forged an alliance between indentured servants and slaves. Afterward, planters sought to replace White servants with Black slaves and passed new laws intended to divide the two groups.
According to the filmmaker of Africans in America, what was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676?
An eighteenth century cultural and intellectual movement that emphasized reason and observation over superstition and religion
What was the “enlightenment” movement?
This angry response is explained by colonists desire to be treated as equal subjects within the British Empire, threats to colonial assemblies, poor people seeing an opportunity to challenge the wealthy, and a general disdain for taxes.
Why were British colonists so angry about the Stamp Act?