Colonial Life/Early Settlements
What title was typically given to a wealthy landowner who operated a large farm in the southern colonies?
Planters
What document did the Pilgrims created to establish self-goverance before disembarking at Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
What was the name of the exchange that brought plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between Old and New World?
The Columbian Exchange
What disease brought by Europeans led to widespread death among Native American populations?
Smallpox
Who was the Native American woman that formed an alliance between the Powhatan tribe and the English by marrying John Rolfe?
Which Christian group, founded in the 1600s, believed in a personal connection with God without clergy or rituals?
The Quakers
Which religious group aimed to reform the Church of England and eventually established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Puritans
Which continents were part of the "Old World?"
Europe, Africa, and Asia
What was the name given to the horrific journey enslaved Africans endured between Africa and the Americas?
The Middle Passage
What were some long-term results of Bacon's Rebellion
Decrease in indentured servitude, increase in African enslavement
What term describes a person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the colonies?
Indentured Servant
What event in 1692 led to widespread fear and accusations of witchcraft in a Massachusetts village?
Which Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive?
The Wampanoags
Why did Europeans choose to colonize the New World?
Gold, God, Glory
Who led a revolt of indentured servants and others against Virginia's colonial leadership in the late 1600s?
Nathaniel Bacon
Which early colony is the first English settlement in North America that became a permanent colony?
Jamestown
What new system awarded 50 acres of land to settlers for each person they brought to the New World?
The Headright System
What were some of the major cash crops in the colonial South?
Rice, Indigo, Sugarcane, Tobacco, and Cotton
In which year was Jamestown eventually established?
1607
What 1676 rebellion was led by frontier settlers and former indentured servants upset with the colonial government's treatment of Native American relations?
Bacon's Rebellion
What single word did John White find etched into a tree when he returned to deserted Roanoke colony?
CROATOAN
What name was given to the transatlantic system that trafficked enslaved Africans to the Americas?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Who was responsible for introducing tobacco as a profitable crop in Jamestown?
John Rolfe
What three continents were involved in the Triangular Trade route?
1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wampanoags, led by a chief known as Metacom. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.
King Philip's War