Early Colonization
This nation's colonies were based on agriculture; large number of men and women inhabited the colonies; relatively hostile relations with Native Americans.
What are the characteristics of English colonization?
The spread of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This area was founded by mostly Puritans, a group of like-minded individuals. These colonies tended to be close-knit and had longer life expectancy than other English colonies. The economy was a mix of farming and trade.
Time period that focused on reason and knowledge and promoted new ideas about government (natural rights, consent of the governed, separation of powers). These ideas helped influence the American Revolution. This promoted the idea of self-governance through colonial assemblies and town meetings.
What is the Enlightenment?
Economic policy that focuses on making money for the mother country. This policy favors a positive balance of trade for the mother country and the accumulation of gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
Sought tight control over its colonies and focused on converting and exploiting the Natives.
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in the New World. This system exploited Native Americans and resources.
What is the Encomienda System?
These colonies were the most diverse religiously and saw the most immigrants (Quakers) from Europe. The economy was based on grain.
What was one of the first examples of self-governance in the New World, was formed in Virginia in 1642 by the General Assembly. By its creation, the General Assembly then became bicameral.
What his House of Burgesses?
Men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.
What is Indentured Servitude?
Fewer inhabitants than other countries; focused on trade, alliances, and intermarriage with Native Americans, as well as a heavy focus on furs (beavers).
Characteristics of the French and Dutch colonization
The animal introduced to the Natives by the Spanish that changed their way of life.
What are horses?
What was the first self-governing document of the Plymouth Colony? It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was a movement characterized by enthusiastic expression of religious feeling among masses of people in the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
European powers competed to find a water route to China to establish a faster trade route. This trade route was known as the the...
Smaller, less sophisticated societies during time relied on these crops for survival.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Radical separatist group of English Protestants who settled in Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and religious life.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This document was written in response to Sir Edmund Andros government under the Dominion of New England that listed the colonists' grievances.
What is the Boston Declaration of Grievances?
These series of laws stated trade to and from the colonies can only be carried out by English or colonial built ships and goods imported into the colonies had to pass through English ports.
What are the Navigation Acts?
What are the three reasons why the Spanish sought to expand their empires in the period between 1497 to 1607?
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
Part of American where nomadic hunting occurred, farms, tepees, and earth lodges. Also known for having plenty of buffalo.
What are the Great Plains?
The rebellion highlighted the strife between backcountry frontiersmen facing Native American attacks and the rich plantation owners living near coastal settlements.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What is John Winthrop and its purpose was a to serve as a guideline for the treatment of Puritans by one another to ensure survival of the settlement.
The unofficial and long-lasting 17th and 18th century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of Parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
What is Salutary Neglect?