CH. 1
The exchange of people, plants, and animals between Europe, Africa, and North America that occurred after Columbus's arrival in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Columbian Exchange
The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony. The settlement became part of the Joint Stock Virginia Company of London in 1620. Grew to be a prosperous shipping port.
What is Jamestown?
an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. An overthrowing of the upper class
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
refers to an 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and logic to understand the world, challenging traditional authority and promoting ideas like individual rights, liberty, and progress, significantly influencing the American Revolution and the founding principles of the United States
What is The Enlightenment?
economic theory claiming the government should regulate economic activity so as to promote national power.
A term used by the Spanish that referred to a people whose ancestors were both European and American Indian.
What is "Mestizo"
a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training.
What is an indentured servant?
Who were the largest group of NON-ENGLISH newcomers from the European continent?
What are the Germans?
Part of the Triangle Trade
Africans were transported to the Americas, where they were traded for sugar and tobacco. Very dangerous.
What is the Middle Passage?
a land grant program (originating in Jamestown) used by European colonists in the Americas to attract settlers and expand the colonies
What is the headright system?
Spaniard who supported the Spanish Empire's right of conquest and colonization in the New World. He also argued in favor of the Christianize of Native Americans.
Who is Juan de Sepulveda?
The first joint-stock company in the colonies; founded Jamestown; promised gold, conversion of Indian to Christianity, and passage to the Indies
What is the Virginia Company?
was a slave rebellion begun on Sunday, September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
System where slaves did daily jobs, Would give slaves rewards for completing work.
What is the task system?
(1739-1744) Puritanism had declined by the 1730s, and people were upset about the decline in religious piety. The Great Awakening was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies. One of the first events to unify the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
Spanish System to regulate and control Native Americans. The Spanish crown granted Spanish colonists a specific number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility.
What is the encomienda system?
the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, seeking religious freedom. It was signed on November 11, 1620
What is the Mayflower Compact?
_____________, a Calvinist, took control of New York after the Glorious Revolution. New York became divided along ethnic and economic lines. _________ was hanged and New York politics remained polarized for years afterward.
Who was Jacob Leisler?
Celebrated active participation in public life by economically independent citizens at the essence of liberty.
What is republicanism?
regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy. The acts restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships, required certain colonial goods to pass through England before export, provided subsidies for the production of certain raw goods in the colonies, and banned colonial competition in large-scale manufacturing.
What is the Navigation Acts?
A confederacy of five Iroquois-speaking tribes that established a democracy in the northeast woodlands
What is the Great League of Peace?
an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The area is now in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 United States.
(puritans)
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A multiyear conflict that began in 1675 with an Indian uprising against white colonists. Its end result was broadened freedoms for white New Englanders and the dispossession of the region's Indians.
What is King Phillip's War?
Believes individual and private liberty, A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes.
What is liberalism?
the British policy of loosely enforcing trade laws and allowing the American colonies to govern themselves with minimal interference
What is salutary neglect?