Native American Interactions
Native American who acted as a mediator between the Jamestown colony and her own father, Powhatan, and tribe.
Who is Pocahontas?
This was the first representative assembly in North America, created in Virginia (1619).
What is the House of Burgesses?
Crop that saved the Jamestown colony from economic failure.
What is tobacco?
In order to vote in Puritan New England a male had to experience this
What is a personal conversion experience?
50 acres of land to any colonist who paid for his own or another’s passage
What is the headright system?
French and Dutch colonial relationships with American Indians were based primarily on trade alliance for this good.
What are furs?
Most forms of democracy were held in this format in early New England colonies.
What are self-government?
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This church was the dominant church in the Southern colonies (and New York).
What is the Anglican Church?
Process of gaining wealth for the mother country through buying resources from colonies for cheap and selling finished goods for higher prices.
What is mercantilism?
Native American chief allied with other tribes in the Virginia area and collected tribute in the region.
Who is Powhatan?
Belief that some of the power is given to the government but with the idea that they need to respect the people’s natural rights and the people had the right to change the government if they did not follow this
What is a social contract
Known as the “breadbasket colonies” for their grain production, this region was also marked by religious diversity, tolerance, and major port cities like New York and Philadelphia.
What are the middle colonies?
Preachers who moved away from the traditional colonial church during the Great Awakening.
What are New Light clergy?
Harsh winters and rocky soil limited large-scale farming in this region, leading colonists to rely instead on subsistence farming, shipbuilding, and transatlantic trade networks known as this.
What is triangular trade?
This conflict resulted in the lasting defeat of New England's Indians and the beheading of Wampanoag Chief Metacom.
What is King Philip's War or Metacom's War?
Although technically not a constitution, this was a landmark written agreement among Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims for majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In this region, Puritan influence shaped laws and governance, with church membership often required for voting and local decisions made through participatory town meetings.
What are the New England colonies?
This pastor's emotional preaching, challenged established churches, and helped foster ideas of equality and questioning authority all up and done the Eastern seaboard.
Who is George Whitefield?
During the era before the French and Indian War, this resulted in the colonies being left alone to develop their own economic and political institutions.
What is salutary neglect?
These are the 2 main ways to explain the varying patterns of interaction between British colonists and Native Americans in different regions
and environment/geography?
This 17th-century framework, often called the first written constitution in America, established a government based on the consent of the governed?
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This was the first major slave rebellion in the South that resulted in further restrictions on slaves.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
In 1649, this became the first law granting a degree of religious toleration in the colonies. Revoked the next year when Protestants took over this colony's government.
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
The British legislation that mandated that all goods imported to the colonies be carried on English ships, creating exclusivity and shaping colonial economic interactions.
What are the Navigation Acts?