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
The name given for the legislature (law makers) of Jamestown
What is the House of Burgesses
This is the name for the system of labor employed by the Spanish, where natives were forced to become slaves.
What is the encomienda
This was the colonial region that was most likely to be diverse with types of people and religious backgrounds
What is the Middle Colonies
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
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
What is "City Upon a Hill"
The people who sought to "purify" the Anglican Church from its corrupt ways
Who are the Puritans
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?
____________________ 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
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
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
This was the area where a land bridge connected Russia and North America 10,000 years ago
What is The Bering Strait
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?
Term used to describe inheritance system that gave the eldest son all of the fathers estate
What is Primogeniture
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