Colonial Foundations
This was the type of company that funded the founding of Jamestown
What is a joint-stock company?
The South Carolina slave revolt that led to stricter slave laws in the 1740s.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This naval battle allowed Great Britain to compete on the seas and start colonization in North America.
What is the Battle of the Armada?
In the first century of English colonization, most Eng went to this area, highlighted the importance of the sugar industry.
What is the West Indies?
This is an economic theory based on the belief that a nation’s wealth and power depend on this balance of trade
What is mercantilism?
The first elected legislative assembly in colonial America, founded in Virginia in 1619.
What is the VA House of Burgesses?
The 1675–1676 conflict led by Metacom, devastating New England towns. Led to Native Americans in the area being killed or sent to the Caribbean
What was King Philip's War?
These inheritance laws motivated some English men to seek their fortune in the "New World"
What are primogeniture laws?
Women were allowed to do this in Jamestown due to high death rates.
What is own property?
This economic system linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and was fueled by colonial demand for labor to cultivate these goods.
What is triangular trade?
These are 2 ideas from Roger William's Plea of Religious Liberty that were unacceptable to Puritan leaders.
What are: separation of church + state, freedom of conscious/ religion, no coercion
This series of conflicts between English and this Confederacy ultimately led to major English expansion in Virginia.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
What is 1630-1642?
Puritans followed the teachings of this branch of Protestantism.
What is Calvinism?
The introduction of African rice-growing techniques to South Carolina illustrates how enslaved Africans contributed not just labor but also this.
What are agricultural knowledge and cultural adaptation
This is a foundational self-gov't document signed by Puritans who colonized New England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is arguably the most successful Native uprising against Europeans in North America because it forced the Spanish to change their treatment of Native Americans in the southwest
What is the Pueblo Rebellion/Pope's Rebellion of 1680?
These are 4 factors that led to Bacon's Rebellion. (must be specific)
What are: tensions over Native land, frustration of indentured servants over headright system, gov't corruption, demand for more aggressive Indian policy,
This is the British policy of loosely enforcing trade regulations and allowing colonial self-government in the early 1700s.
What is salutary neglect?
Founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe, Georgia was originally established for these two main purposes
What are serving as a buffer against Spanish Florida and providing a refuge for England’s poor/debtors?
These are 4 specific impacts of the Great Awakening.
What are: Weakened allegiance to Anglican church authority, Common experience across regions, language, class, denominations, Increased circulation in printed materials→ independent judgment, Inclusion→brought more enslaved people into the church, Black preachers + female preachers
These are 5 impacts of the French + Indian War that we covered in class.
Boost to local economy, FL no longer a haven for enslaved people, War forced colonists to work together + militia saw themselves as a people’s army in contrast to authoritarian British army, Albany Plan of Union proposed, Indians can no longer play Euro powers off of each other, Pontiac's Rebellion, End of Salutary neglect, enforcement of Navigation Acts, Proclamation Line of 1763, British debt, plan for colonists to pay debt, territory changes
Identify one unique characteristic for each of these regions: New England, Middle Colonies, Chesapeake/Tidewater, and Deep South.
Numerous responses.
Explain how one of these events helped contribute to the formation of an American Identity in at least 3 sentences: Great Awakening, Stono Rebellion, Zenger Trial.
various responses
While the Spanish focused on extracting wealth and converting Native peoples, and the French emphasized trade alliances and intermarriage, the English were distinctive for pursuing this goal in North America.
What is permanent settlement and land ownership?