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Terms
Misc.
100

This labor intensive, yet profitable crop was grown in the Chesapeake and other areas of the south in the early and mid-18th century - leading to an explosion in the slave population of the colonies

What is Tobacco

100
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
100

The name given for the legislature (law makers) of Jamestown

What is the House of Burgesses

100

This is the name for the system of labor employed by the Spanish, where natives were forced to become slaves.

What is the encomienda

100
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
What is sugar
200
This country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
What is France
200
This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
The name given to the interaction between North, Central, South America and the West Indies, Africa and Europe
What is Columbian Exchange
200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
200

This was the colonial region that was most likely to be diverse with types of people and religious backgrounds

What is the Middle Colonies

300

This country settled primarily in modern day Mexico and many other parts of Central and South America, establishing initial European dominance of the New World.

What is Spain

300

Video Check Question: English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors

What are the Navigation Acts

300
John Winthrop stated that Massachusetts Bay was a ______________________. Meaning, an example for all other colonies to look up to.

What is "City Upon a Hill"

300

The people who sought to "purify" the Anglican Church from its corrupt ways

Who are the Puritans

300

The false idea that the land was unused and that the natives were primitive and undeveloped prior to European contact was called

What is the Pristine Myth?

400
The Protestant Christian belief that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born.
What is predestination
400
This group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York
Who are the Iroquois
400

____________________ describes when a tribe or people move around and don't have permanent settlements. 

___________________ describes when a tribe or people become stationary/rooted/non-migratory

What is nomadic/sedentary

400

This system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival

What is the headright system

400

This group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that all people (Native Americans, Africans etc.) were holy. People would supposedly shake when God would speak to them directly. 

Who are the Quakers

500

This was the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago

What is The Bering Strait

500
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
What is royal colony
500

A conflict between Natives and the English in New England that developed over land ownership and claims. There are two acceptable names for this conflict.

What is Metacom's/King Philips War?

500

Term used to describe inheritance system that gave the eldest son all of the fathers estate

What is Primogeniture

500

This was a way in which people in Puritan society could be baptized but not full members of the Church.

What is the Halfway Covenant

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