First Contact & Native Americans
The cultivation of THIS allowed many Indian societies to establish permanent settlements in North America
What is maize?
the Columbian Exchange
What is the transfer of animals, diseases, and peoples between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492?
This 1620 agreement created a "civil body politic" among the settlers of Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
By the 1700s, the enslaved African labor system had become more widespread than THIS SYSTEM in the British American colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
Though aspects of this may have strengthened the shared culture between England and the colonies, it may have also made the colonists feel a bit 'different'
What is the First Great Awakening?
Centered in central Mexico, these people resisted Spanish attempts to abandon their traditional religion
Who are the Aztecs?
Most immediate and devastating demographic consequence of European contact for Indians
What was population decline caused by epidemic disease?
The Mayflower Compact was an early precedent for this broader pattern of government in Britain's North American colonies.
What are local representative governments or assemblies?
Examples of resistance to slavery that DO NOT include violent rebellion
What is running away, working slowly, breaking tools, etc.?
This traveling preacher attracted enormous colonial audiences with emotional sermons during the First Great Awakening.
Who is Whitefield?
Compared to French & Spanish colonization, English settlers produced this type of relationship with Indians
What is separation?
The Spanish used this system to organize and control Native American labor.
What is the encomienda system?
John Smith's description of starvation and hardship at Jamestown demonstrated the need for English colonists to devote greater attention to this activity.
What is farming or agriculture?
A 1662 Virginia law is an early example that a child's slave status would be inherited from this person
What is the mother?
The First Great Awakening helped denominations such as the Baptist and Methodist churches gain membership at the expense of these institutions
What are established churches?
loss of lands and threats to Indian sovereignty were a major cause of this late 17th century New England conflict
What is King Philip's War?
This Spanish Dominican criticized the brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples in his writings.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
England's Navigation Acts were based on this economic philosophy, which viewed colonies as sources of wealth for the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This 1739 South Carolina uprising was one of the most significant slave insurrections of the colonial era
Due to patterns of settlement, these colonies probably had the highest degree of religious and social toleration
What the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
This Northeastern Indian alliance consisted of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga, and Tuscarora, and primarily took the English side during the French & Indian War
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The dramatic decline of the Native American labor force helped accelerate Spanish reliance on this source of labor.
What is enslaved African labor?
Although intended to strengthen England's empire, restrictions such as the Navigation Acts eventually helped foster this colonial political development
What is opposition to British rule or the independence movement?
By 1754, the number of colonies in which black slavery was legally defined
What is thirteen?
'Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.'
Who is John Locke?