Colonial Economies & Trade
These colonies became known as the “bread colonies” because of their grain production.
What were Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey?
This colonial region was the least ethnically diverse because it was mainly settled by English Puritans.
What was New England?
This document established self-government based on majority rule among Pilgrim colonists.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This was the brutal voyage that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Middle Passage?
This colony was founded as a buffer against Spanish Florida and as a refuge for debtors.
What was Georgia?
This was the trans-Atlantic trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What was the Triangular Trade?
These colonies were considered the “most American” because of their diversity in culture, religion, and ethnicity.
What were the Middle Colonies?
This type of government existed in Massachusetts Bay, where religious leaders strongly influenced laws.
What was a theocracy?
This 1676 uprising challenged Virginia’s government over land and Native American policy.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This English leader helped Jamestown survive through strict discipline and organization.
Who was John Smith?
This crop was called a “rich man’s crop” because it required expensive land and labor.
What was sugar?
This condition in New England forced many colonists into fishing, shipbuilding, and trade instead of plantation farming.
What was rocky, poor soil?
This Puritan dissenter believed in antinomianism, the idea that faith alone led to salvation.
(DOUBLE POINTS) Who was Anne Hutchinson?
These laborers worked for a fixed number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What were indentured servants?
These wars were fought between Virginia settlers and the Powhatan Confederacy over land and control.
What were the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
This was the biggest economic enterprise in Colonial America.
What was agriculture?
This social system developed in the South by 1700 with plantation owners at the top and enslaved Africans at the bottom.
What was a caste system?
This phrase described the Puritan goal of creating a model Christian society in America.
What was a “city upon a hill”?
This war devastated Native American power in New England during the 1670s.
What was King Philip's War?
This court case helped establish freedom of the press in the American colonies.
What was the John Peter Zenger trial case?
These businesses allowed investors to share profits and risks in trade and colonization.
What were joint-stock companies?
These two colonial regions differed because one emphasized religion and towns while the other depended on tobacco plantations.
What were New England and the Chesapeake?
This religious revival movement of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional religious experiences.
What was the First Great Awakening?
This colonial assembly set the stage for representative self-government.
What was Virginia’s House of Burgesses?
This event in 1588 marked England’s victory over Spain and weakened Spanish naval dominance.
What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?