Chapter 1
Who is known to have been the first settler in North America?
Christopher Columbus
What was the name of the well-known settler who became one of the first leaders of Jamestown?
John Smith
What was a popular fear that took place specifically with woman who violated traditional gendered norms?
Witches!
What was the name of the shipment of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean?
Middle passage/Atlantic trade
Who wrote common sense?
Thomas Paine
What event continued the revolt of a community against the Spanish pushing Christianity onto them?
Pueblo Revolt
Who were people considered as if they surrendered their freedom and worked in the new world in exchange for passage?
Indentured Servants
What was te first crop to be mass marketed in the colonies?
Sugar
What was the series of religous revivals called
The great awakening
What act taxed glass, tea, lead, and paint, that eventually led to a crisis?
Townshend crisis
What is the name of the event in which European and Native groups traded diseases, practices, and ideas?
Columbian Exchange
What was the process of giving colonists fifty acres of land if they paid for their own or others passage?
Headright system
Who were the lords of trade?
A team established to supervise colonial affairs
What was the process of the colonies being left alone by the British?
Salutary neglect
What were the three characteristics for America’s new independence?
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
Who was the explorer to first encounter the Aztec empire?
Hernan Cortes
What was Virginia’s main source of agricultural profit?
Tobacco
What was the main source of agriculture in South Carolina and georgia
Rice
What war started in 1754 between the French and British?
The seven years war
What took place in Massachusetts due to the rebellion from taxes?
Boston massacre/ Boston tea party
What was the system called in which residents of Indian villages remained legally free and entitled to wages but were still required to perform a fixed mount of labor each year?
Repartimiento System
Who were the levelers and what did they call for?
They were a democratic group who proposed a constitution
For. What country was the biggest migration to the colonies?
The German migration
What was the trial on freedom of speech due to the insults of the govt in the news ?
Trial of zenger
What writing sought reconciliation with King George III?
Olive branch petition