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Spanish Jesuit Priest who petitioned King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on behalf of the native peoples in North America.
Who is Bartolome De Las Casas?
Spanish-built network of religious settlements from the Gulf to the California coasts.
What is the Mission System?
This economy gave land and resources to Spanish Nobles who promised to convert indigenous peoples to Christianity.
What is the Encomienda System?
The established representative government of the Virginia Colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Invention that used the stars to determine location and direction when navigating the ocean.
What is the astrolabe?
Signed 7-year contracts to pay for passage across the Atlantic Ocean to the British Colonies.
Who are indentured servants?
What is Triangle Trade?
The idea that a government should benefit the will of the people instead of the will of the ruler.
What is a Social Contract?
Established by the Slave Laws imported from Barbados to Colonies like Georgia and South Carolina.
What is chattel slavery?
Deadliest part of the Columbian Exchange.
What is smallpox?
Conflict between the Massachusetts Colony and an alliance of Indian Tribes defending against western encroachment of their lands.
What is Metacom's (Prince Philips's) War?
The belief that aristocrats and nobles should hold authority in government.
What is Hereditary Privilege?
Closed the Port of Boston, transported criminals to England for Trial, rescinded Massachusetts self-rule, gave the Colony of Quebec control of the St. Lawrence River corridor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Indigo, and Rice.
What are cash crops?
Patriotic guerilla fighters and propagandists who opposed British Rule in the colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
First slave revolt in the British Colonies spurred on by Spanish promises of freedom in Florida.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
The belief that slavery should be against the law.
Pamphlet that outlined reasons the American Colonies should be independent from Great Britain.
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
French military emplacement George Washington was commissioned to capture that lead to the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Dusquense?
Author of the Olive Branch Petition>
Who is John Dickinson?
Colonial representatives that met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia between 1774 and 1778.
What is the Continental Congress?
The belief that no one branch of government should hold all of the power.
What is the System of Checks and Balances?
Branches established by the ratification of the United States Constitution.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches of government?
The only successful slave revolt in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?