Period 1
How were Native Americans treated by Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s?
Native Americans were regarded as inferior people, subject to Christian domination
The survival of Jamestown colony can be most directly attributed to what?
The development of the tobacco industry
The British policy of allowing the colonies to develop their own political institutions and trade relationships
Salutary Neglect
founder of the Jamestown colony
Sir Walter Raleigh
Where did the French immigrants to the New World tend to inhabit?
Canada
What is the encomienda system?
European governments grant Indians' labor to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
Conflict between large plantation owners and settlers on Virginia's western frontier over the issue of Native Americans led to what?
Bacon's Rebellion
Giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
"headright" system
Spanish minister who spoke out against the treatment of the Native Americans
Bartholome de las Casas
The _____ colonies developed homogenous religion.
New England
What was an important factor that caused European exploration and settlement in the 16th century?
3 Gs - gold, glory, God
scientific knowledge and technological change
Considered the first Constitution written in British North America
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The first democratically elected legislative body in British North America
the House of Burgesses (Virginia)
Along with George Whitefield, he brought open-air preaching to the colonies and introduced the Great Awakening.
Jonathan Edwards
Southern
As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained what (don't mention disease) ?
new animals as a source of food and to serve as "beast of burdens"
The slave rebellion near Charleston, South Carolina in 1739
Stono Rebellion
The King revoked colonial charters, then he established more direct control over the northern colonies and collected taxes more efficiently by enforcing the Navigation Acts. What was the new government called?
Dominion of New England
His court case found his non-guilty of libel, leading to other newspapers to have some freedom of the press
John Peter Zenger
This colony protected the other colonies from the Spanish in the south.
Georgia
European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly to the Native Americans. Why?
The Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases.
For whom did the Duke of Baltimore establish the colony of Maryland?
Catholics who were persecuted in England
popular economic philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries where the British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country
mercantilism
This event prompted the shift from indentured servitude to African slavery.
Bacon's Rebellion
The Salem Witch Trials, which were a result of unsettled social and religious conditions, occurred in which colony?
Massachusetts