People
An English explorer who was prominent in Jamestown who was captured by Native Americans in 1607 for a period of time.
Who is John Smith?
A Native American group located in the Mississippi River Valley that had a complex social hierarchy and had about 200-300k people at its height. Abandoned in 1350.
Who are the Cahokia?
A system of political economy based on political regulation.
What is Mercantilism?
A slave uprising in 1739 in South Carolina. The slaves armed themselves and killed colonists. Colonists suppressed the rebellion.
What was the Stono rebellion?
Point of Comparison: Push/Pull Factors
Colonial Region: New England & South
New England's: Mostly religious
South's: Mostly economic
A newspaperman that criticized a Governor Crosby. The governor accuses him of lying but, he is acquitted by defending his criticisms were true
Who is John Paul Zenger?
A religious group in the Middle Colonies who believed all men were equal, people could communicate directly with God, and tolerated all people from any religious or ethnic backgrounds including Native Americans.
Who are the Quakers?
English laws passed beginning in the 1650's requiring certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports with Englishmen on ships and benefitings from the goods.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Laborers (usually Natives) were given military protection and converted to Christianity in exchange for their service to the Spanish Crown & its settlers
What is the Encomienda System?
Point of Comparison: Gender Roles
Colonial Region: New England & Middle Colonies
New England: Rigid gender norms, men as leaders of family and community and women as wives and mothers only
Middle Colonies: Among Quakers, women had rights and roles within society
The first to recognize the European oppression of Native Americans. Sailed with Christopher Columbus on 3rd voyage.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This group of colonists hoped to purify the Church of England and practice in a more devout way in the New World
Who are the Puritans?
This crop became the most important cash crop of the Colonial era for the British crown
What is tobacco?
Indentured servants from Europe and enslaved peoples from this region made up the forced labor work force in the British colonies
What is Africa?
Point of Comparison: Education
Colonial Region: New England & South
New England: schooling available for children, via the first public schools that were funded by taxes
South: wealthy families hired private tutors or sent children to Europe to receive education
Was the leader of England when Jamestown and the Pilgrims settled
Who is King James I?
Colony in the Middle Colonies Region that was home to the Quakers but also people of vast and diverse backgrounds both culturally and religiously
What is Pennsylvania?
The main difference between Spanish and English colonies
What is Spanish colonies were seen as extensions of Spain and England governed with salutary neglect?
What is Chattel Slavery?
Point of Comparison: Religion
Colonial Region: Middle & New England
New England: Homogeneity expected, no variance in how to practice religion (Puritan dominated)
Believed that the natural world was full of spiritual power and made sense of their surroundings by studying dreams and visions
Who are animists?
How interactions between Virginian settlers and Native tribes changed during the early colonial period
John Smith advocated for collaboration with the Natives to learn from them, however as time progresses the British will push Natives westward and will engage in warfare to acquire land
Examples of Native Resistance
Pequot War, Metacom's War, Pueblos Revolt
Enacted in order to quell rebellion in places like South Carolina and Virginia, often allowed unfair treatment and extremely restrictive of rights
What are Slave Laws?
Point of Comparison: Economy
Colonial Region: All
New England: mix of family farms (agriculture) and commerce (trade) in small but established cities
Middle: mis of agriculture (grains) and commerce (trade)/skilled laborers/artisans
South: Agriculture/plantation economy/slavery, few very wealthy, everyone else=poverty