Colonization
This empire focused on converting Native Americans to Christianity.
What is Spain?
This region was known for small farms and tight-knit towns.
What is New England?
This labor system was used before slavery became widespread.
What is indentured servitude?
This was the main cause of conflict between colonists and Native Americans.
What is competition over land?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
These two European powers relied heavily on the fur trade and Native alliances.
What is France and the Netherlands (Dutch)?
This cash crop made the Chesapeake colonies wealthy.
What is tobacco?
This is why slavery replaced indentured servitude.
What is the need for a more stable, permanent labor force and the decline in indentured servants?
This war was a major conflict between New England colonists and Native Americans.
What is King Philip’s War?
This economic policy required colonies to benefit their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
These were the main motivations for English settlers coming to North America.
What is land, economic opportunity, religious freedom?
These colonies were the most culturally and religiously diverse.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This term describes slavery as lifelong and based on race.
What is chattel slavery?
This is why Native Americans formed alliances with Europeans.
What is to gain advantages (like trade goods and weapons) and protection against rival tribes or other Europeans?
These are two major exports from the American colonies.
What are tobacco and rice?
This Spanish labor system forced Native Americans to work for colonists.
What is the encomienda system?
This environmental factor led to plantation economies in the South.
What is a long growing season and fertile soil?
These laws made slavery permanent and hereditary.
What are slave codes?
This was the major effect of European diseases on Native populations.
What is a massive population decline (devastation)?
This is how Atlantic trade led to the growth of slavery.
What is the increased demand for labor on plantations, leading to a rise in the transatlantic slave trade?
This is why English colonies grew faster than French or Spanish ones.
What is more migrants (including families) and a focus on permanent settlement and agriculture?
These are the key differences between New England and Southern economies.
What are small-scale farming and commerce in New England vs. plantation agriculture and cash crops (with slavery) in the South?
These are two ways enslaved people resisted slavery.
What are rebellion and running away (escape)?
This event forced Spain to change how they treated Native Americans.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This is how the Atlantic economy transformed colonial society.
What is it connected the colonies to global trade, spread goods and ideas, and increased dependence on slavery?