Pre Colonies
The brutal voyage transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
First cash crops of the colonies
Tobacco
Primary reason for foundation of the New England colonies
Religion
What are the two major colonies of the Middle colonial region
New York & Pennsylvania (+ Delaware)
An economic system to increase a nation's wealth and power through favorable trade and accumulation of resources.
Mercantilism
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and goods between the Americas and Europe/Africa.
Columbian Exchange
The first elected representative assembly in the English colonies.
House of Burgesses
An agreement creating a form of self-government among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Mayflower Compact
Religious group known for peaceful, non-violenct practices
Quakers
A religious revival that emphasized personal faith and challenged traditional religious authority.
Great Awakening
First attempted N.American British colony
Roanoke
System of forced labor, brutal and often till death
Chattel Slavery
A major preacher of the Great Awakening known for emphasizing human sinfulness and the need for salvation.
Jonathan Edwards
Britain's policy of loosely enforcing trade laws in the colonies, allowing them a degree of self-government.
Salutary neglect
Movement that uses reason, science, and logic to improve society
The Enlightenment
A Spanish labor system in which colonists were granted control over Indigenous labor and tribute.
Encomienda system
Colonist who brought a new strain of tobacco seeds to VA to help them survive economically
John Rolfe
Which of the following is the correct list of the major exports of the New England colonies?
Fish, fur, and lumber
Colonists, often poor and English, who agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the colonies, food, and shelter.
Indentured servants
Which region had the highest life excpetency
New England
Three major destructive deceases brought by Europeans to the the Americans
Smallpox, influenza, syphilis...if you're nasty
Land was given to people who paid for the passage of settlers to the colonies; associated with the Virginia Company.
Headright system
Why are the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses important
They represent early democracy in the colonies
What was the primary cause of the French and Indian War?
Land in the Ohio Valley region
British laws regulating colonial trade to benefit England and support mercantilism.
Navigation Acts