Regions
Transatlantic Trade
Euro-Native Life
Slavery
Society and Culture
100
This British colonial region was called the "Breadbasket" colonies because it focused on cereal crops.
What are the Middle Colonies?
100
African Slaves were brought to the Americas through this part of the transatlantic trade.
What is the middle passage?
100
Queen Anne's war was a series of skirmishes between the British, Native Americans, and this European power.
What are the French?
100
The Puritan farms of New England did not use slaves, as they chose this instead.
What is family labor?
100
Daily Double!
The intellectual exchange of diverse ideas to the colonies led to the idea of colonial ______.
What is pluralism?
200
This British colonial region was run by Puritans seeking religious freedom and were family driven.
What are the New England colonies?
200
Europeans caused a raise in intertribal warfare because of the importation of this.
What are firearms?
200
Popé organized his people to push the Spanish out of the New Mexico territory in this rebellion.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
200
Runaway enslaved men often took jobs in this industry, in order to get away from their captors.
What is whaling?
200
George Whitfield's use of fiery impassioned religious services lead to this.
What is the First Great Awakening?
300
This British colonial region invested heavily in the African slave trade to grow cash crops, like sugar.
What are the West Indies?
300
This new British economic system valued their exports over their imports.
What is Mercantilism?
300
Nathanial Bacon, fronter farmers, and Native Americans burned this Virginia Colony during Bacon's Rebellion.
What is Jamestown?
300
Because there were so many poor wanting to flee Europe, in the Chesapeake they used this for labor instead of slaves.
What are indentured servants?
300
The group of preachers that promoted progressive ideas, such as religious equality for women and slaves, earned this nickname.
What are New Lights?
400
Wealth seeking men settled this British Colonial region to find gold, but there was none to be had.
What is the Chesapeake?
400
These British trade laws controlled and angered the colonial economy.
What are the Navigation Acts?
400
Angry about the French attempt to enslave them and turn their land into tobacco plantations, these native peoples revolted and ended the French plan.
Who are the Natchez?
400
In the Carolinas, the enslaved population was allowed to create self-sufficient communities, leading to this.
What is Slave Culture?
400
Benjamin Franklin published this newspaper to promote science and reason in the colonies.
What is Poor Richards Almanac?
500
Because of the lack of deep rivers, this British Colonial region had to develop one of America's largest sea ports.
What is the Southern Colonies?
500
Jealous of the power forming in the New England colonies, and angry about violations of the Navigation Acts, King James II combined New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Maine into this "super colony."
What is the Dominion of New England?
500
Daily Double!
Professional runners staked out more land for Pennsylvania than the Native Americans expected in this famous scam.
What is the Walking Purchas of 1737?
500
In the Carolinas and the West Indies, escaped slaves fled to the swamps and mountains to create these communities.
What are maroon communities?
500
John Locke argued that man is endowed by their creator with natural rights, including the right to these three things.
What are Life, Liberty and Property?