brit colonies
The most important crop of the Chesapeake region, requiring a large number of indentured servants and slaves.
What is tobacco?
Brit needed lands for Puritans to settle, leading to this war with a native group. Massachusetts Bay + Plymouth + Narragansett + Mohegan to defeat [name of group]
What is the Pequot War?
Revolt of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico were resentful of Spanish rule. They achieved short-term success. 300+ spanish killed, the Spanish agreed to allow them to continue their culture, and this was one of the only successful uprisings during this time.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Trade in the 18th/19th century that brought manufactured items from England to Africa and Americas and, on the other hand, brought slaves from Africa to America.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Puritan woman who argued that ministers were not needed to interpret and convey teachings of the Bible - God could communicate directly to true believers. She was banished from the puritan community and established a settlement on Rhode Island.
Anne Hutchinson
Colony founded to create refuge for Catholics--founder was George Calvert.
Maryland
War between Great Britain and France 1688-1763 over Upper Ohio River Valley. American Indian's allied with both sides. French were defeated in 1763.
What is the 7 years war/French and Indian War?
The mixed-race children of French and indigenous peoples who often combined Catholic and indigenous religious practices and ways of life.
Who is Metis?
Relationship between the British and Colonies, allowing colonies to develop without much oversight
What is Salutory Neglect?
In the face of declining church membership and religious zeal, with the rise of Enlightenment philosophy and deism, Protestant leaders took action to bolster Puritanism.
What was the Great Awakening?
System perpetuated by the Virginia and Plymouth colonies, promising settlers 50 acres of land.
1688-1697 French vs British war involving some native tribes--the Iroquois allied with British colonists. French and Indian tribes (Wabanaki Confederation) challenged Iroquois domination of the fur trade as well as British expansion north.
What is King William's war/the Nine Year war?
System of forced labor perpetuated by Spanish conquerors, rewarding conquistadores with non-Christian, often native labor.
Economic system where nations increase power by increasing wealth, exports exceed imports, and an inexpensive method of supply is needed (the colonies). Screwed the colonies over by making goods more expensive/reducing inter-country relations.
What is mercantilism?
Most people in the Southern Colonies were this religion, a conservative and ritualistic High Church.
What was the Anglican church?
Name for group of colonies know for diversity (of religion, ethnicity, class), including Penn, NJ, NY. Particularly known for William Quaker/Quakerism, who practiced religious toleration and frowned upon slavery
What are the Middle Colonies?
War with two theaters: (1702-1713). On the border of Canada, the Wabanaki Confederacy+ French tried to stop the northern advance of British colonists. In the South, they fought over the fur trade.
Stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
What is the middle passage?
Armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. Led by a group of determined settlers against a governer who refused a request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia.
What is Bacon's rebellion?
Enlightenment thinker who said the role of government was to protect natural rights - life, liberty, property
Who was John Locke?
The group colonies specializing in indigo and rice and known for slavery.
What are the Southern/Lower South colonies?
War that began because each side hoped to gain dominance in Europe as well as in various European colonies. During this war, England succeeded in capturing Fort Louisbourg, a major French fortress located on Cape Breton Island.
What is King George's War?
Type of farming characterized by low crop yield/ability for farmers to only feed their families. This was done by the Pilgrims and the New England colonies
What is subsistence farming?
Largest, most significant slave rebellion during this period. It began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest enslaved rebellion in the Southern Colonies, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 Africans killed.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
Maryland Act that granted freedom of worship, though only within the bounds of Trinitarian Christianity. One of the earliest laws of religious liberty, it was limited to Christians and repealed in 1692.
What was the Maryland Act of Religious Toleration 1649?