Miscellaneous
Events/Places
Terms
Labor & Economy
Col. New England
100

This European country was the first to begin colonization with its efforts in Africas in the 1400s.

What is Portugal

100

One of the first major attempts to colonize in North America by the British but failed and what happened to the colonists remains a mystery today.

What was the Lost Colony or Roanoke?

100

Title given to the representative assembly in colonial Virginia.

What is House of Burgesses

100

This form of labor was initially used in the Chesapeake and required a certain number of years of labor in exchange for passage across the Atlantic.

What is indentured servitude

100
This group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century
Who are the Puritans
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 town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
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 crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
What is sugar
200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
300
This labor intensive, yet profitable crop was grown in South Carolina 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 rice
300

This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system

What is Bacon's Rebellion

300

English laws passed in the 1650s 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

This is the term used to describe individuals who raised crops for their own families rather than planting crops for sale as an export commodity

What is subsistence farming

300

These involved a series of hearings and executions of individuals in colonial New England from 1692-93 caused by hysteria when a group of girls started acting strangely for which there was no reasonable explanation.

What were the Salem Witchcraft Trials?

400

A belief promulgated by de Las Casas that the Spanish Empire were uniquely cruel and greedy, especially towards Native Americans.

What was the Black Legend?

400
This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
What is Encomienda
400

The economic theory that promoted a closed trading empire and encouraged the development of colonies for materials that would be transported back to the mother country to be processed and sold. 

What is mercantilism

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 Native American fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most Native Americans had either been killed off by disease or displaced
Who is King Philip or Metacom
500

A successful uprising of Indigenous people that drove Spanish colonizers out of present-day New Mexico for twelve years

What was the Pueblo Revolt?

500

An event which occurred in 1688 when Parliament overthrew King James II, replacing him with this daughter Mary and her husband, William III of Orange.

What was the Glorious Revolution?

500

This term is used to describe the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans.

What is the Middle Passage

500

Term used to describe inheritance system that gave the eldest son all of the father's estate

What is Primogeniture

500

This individual openly promoted the idea of an individual personal relationship with God without the guidance of church leaders, and was later expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony


Who is Anne Hutchinson?

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