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100

This region of English colonies is particularly well known for its production of Tobacco

What are the Chesapeake Colonies

100
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
What is sugar
100

This group of people (most often) signed a voluntary contract to surrender their rights for a fixed period of time and serve a wealthy master.

What are indentured servants

100

Title given to the governmental representative of the King in the colonies

What is Governor

100

The idea of allowing for the practice of religions other than the dominant majority in a certain area

What is religious tolerance

100

This man is credited with discovering the New World

Who is Christopher Columbus

200
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
200

The name given to the trade network between the Americas, Africa and Europe

What is the Triangular Trade

200
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
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
What is royal colony
200

The name of the religious revival in the early eighteenth century that revived emotional expressions of religious feeling

What is the Great Awakening

200

This man received a proprietary charter to establish a colony in the Middle Colony region. His goal was to set up a "holy experiment" of religious tolerance.

Who is William Penn (Quaker Oats dude)

300

The name of the religious haven set up by exiled Puritan, Roger Williams

What is Rhode Island

300

This term is the name of the path of the sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans

What is the Middle Passage

300

This group of Native Americans established an proto form of a democracy that united differing tribes in upstate New York

Who are the Iroquois

300

This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans

What is Encomienda

300

The name for a business entity that pools capital from several different investors to fund large projects or expeditions

What are joint stock companies

300

This man advocated for the abolition of the enslavement of Native peoples in exchange for the advocation of African slavery

Who is Bartolome de las Casas

400
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
400

This indigenous society on the present-day mainland United States successfully rebelled against the Spanish Empire and enjoyed independence for a few years.

What is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

400
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
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
The Protestant Christian belief that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born.
What is predestination
400

This woman questioned the moral authority of the Puritan Church to decide moral character solely upon "good works" and was exiled to Rhode Island

Who is Anne Hutchison

500

This nation was the first to set up trade routes to India by sailing around the entirety of the African continent

What is the Portuguese Empire

500
This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system
What is Bacon's Rebellion
500
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
Who are the Quakers
500
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
500

Term for allowing children of baptized-but-unconverted Congregationalists to become full members of the Church and receive the benefits along with it

What is the Halfway Covenant

500

This man became the Lord Protector of England after the execution of King Charles I in 1653

Who is Oliver Cromwell

600

This colonial empire maintained control of the present day middle colonies before it was seized by England

Who are the Dutch
600

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

What is the Bering Strait or Beringia

600

This is the term used to describe individual families that own a small plot of land primarily for subsistence farming

What are Yeomans

600
This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I
What is Salutary Neglect
600
This complex economic system dictated that a country should export more than it imports and build up its gold/silver reserves
What is Mercantilism
600

This Native American and his tribe fought against settlers of the New England Confederacy in the 1670's and lost

Who is King Philip or Metacom

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