Vocab
This English colonial institution, established in Virginia in 1619, was one of the first representative legislative assemblies in British North America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This cash crop helped Jamestown become economically successful and became the foundation of the Chesapeake colonial economy.
What is Tobacco?
The French became particularly involved in this North American economic activity, leading them to establish relationships and alliances with Native American groups.
What is the fur trade?
Virginia and other southern colonies created laws regulating enslaved people and establishing different legal rights based largely on race.
What are slave codes?
This technology has become so common among high school students that more than half of U.S. teens surveyed in 2025 said they had used it daily for schoolwork.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
These British laws regulated colonial trade and required many colonial goods to be transported through the British Empire.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Differences in climate, geography, and natural resources helped cause the English colonies to develop these types of economies and societies.
distinct regional colonial societies?
Native American groups did this with European powers in order to obtain trade goods, weapons, and an advantage over their Native rivals.
What is Formed Alliances?
Unlike temporary forms of labor, this system defined enslaved people as property and generally made enslaved status hereditary.
What is chattel slavery?
This phenomenon occurs when a person remembers an event, phrase, logo, or detail incorrectly—but believes the memory is accurate.
What is the Mandela Effect?
This Spanish colonial labor system granted colonists control over Indigenous labor and tribute in exchange for supposed protection and Christian instruction.
What is the encomienda system?
As tobacco cultivation expanded in the Chesapeake, colonists increasingly needed these TWO types of labor
What is indentured servitude and racial slavery?
As English settlements expanded, Native Americans and colonists increasingly competed over this, contributing to violent conflicts throughout the colonial period.
what are land and natural resources?
Enslaved people resisted slavery in many ways, including escaping and creating these independent communities, often in remote areas.
What are maroon communities?
This is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?
This economic system was based on the idea that colonies existed to benefit the mother country by supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
Unlike the French, who often emphasized the fur trade and alliances with Native Americans, the English increasingly established these types of communities, creating greater competition for land.
What are permanent agricultural settlements?
This 1675–1676 conflict in New England resulted from escalating tensions between Native Americans and English colonists over land, resources, and political authority.
What is King Philip’s War?
This religious revival movement of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized personal religious experiences and contributed to greater religious diversity in the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This actor has recently become the highest grossing actor of all time.
Who is Tom Holland?
These communities were established by escaped enslaved people and provided a way for them to maintain independence from colonial slave societies.
What are maroon communities?
This colonial region developed an economy based heavily on grain production, trade, and commerce, and became known for its ethnic and religious diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The growth of plantation agriculture and European demand for products such as tobacco, sugar, and rice contributed to the expansion of this interconnected system linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Atlantic economy?
This development describes the broader colonial trend in which increased religious and intellectual diversity challenged traditional authority and encouraged colonists to consider new ideas about religion, society, and government.
What is increasing religious and intellectual pluralism?
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who recently passed away, finished her career with over 50 Grammy nominations, and this many Grammy wins. (Within 1)
What are 11 Grammy Awards?