British Colonies
What was the very first British Colony that was established in the Americas?
What is Jamestown?
What European COuntry had the best overall relation with the Natives
Who are the French
Spanish colonists used this coercive labor system to extract labor from Native Americans, especially in New Spain
What is the Encomienda System
A religious revival that emphasized emotion and personal connection to God.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The Columbian Exchange
Companies that the British used to finance the risky enterprise of colonization?
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
The Spanish were temporarily driven out of New Mexico by this Native American uprising in 1680.
What is The Pueblo Revolt
Most common region for slaves to work in in the United States
What is the south/southern colonies
There are 2 preachers known for their powerful work of spreaidng the great awakening. Name 1 of them.
George Whitefield or Jonathon Edwards
What disease was spread to the native population which wiped out much of their population?
What is smallpox
System that the British Colonies used to attract settlers and immigrants to coming to the colonies?
What is the Headright System
Native Americans were most often involved in trading this item with the French in Canada.
What are Furs
This 1676 rebellion by poor farmers and former indentured servants led planters to shift toward African slavery.
What is Bacons Rebellion?
The most popular religion of all colonists in the Americas
Protestant
The route that africans would take while on their way to live a life of slavery in the Americas
What is the Middle Passage
What colonies did the Puritans create and what was their main belief?
Created the Massachusetts Bay Colonies, and were moderate dissenters. Believed that the Church of England should and could be purified and fixed.
This group of Native American tribes formed an alliance and often traded with the British and French.
Before African slavery became widespread, this was the primary labor system used in the Chesapeake colonies.
What is indentured Servitude
Who is Roger Williams
The trade of which valuable crop from the American colonies to Europe significantly boosted the economy of the Southern colonies in the 1600s and 1700s?
What is Tobacco
What is the Breadbasket
What are horses or guns
What was the first colony to adopt slave codes which set the precendet for future slave codes in the 13 colonies
What is The colony of Virginia
Maryland colonial assmeply passed this piece of legislation which granted religious freedom to all chirstians
What is the Act of Toleration
What was the primary item that was traded from the US to Africa in exchange for slaves?
What is Rum