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The Colonies
Dates to Remember
Significant Vocabulary
100

The Spanish labor system that required Natives be converted to Catholicism in exchange for their enslavement

What is the encomienda system?

100

A philosophical movement originating in Europe that expressed ideas of reason and science and sparked new thoughts in the British colonies

What is the Enlightenment?

100

Colonists in this area were mostly Congregationalists (Puritans) or Presbyterians.

What is New England

100

This year marked the first permanent settlement at Jamestown

What is 1607

100

This was the line drawn by the Pope dividing new territories for Spain and Portugal

What is the Line of Demarcation?

200

The Spanish priest who criticized the encomienda system and recommended slave labor be shifted to Africans

Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?

200

The 1676 event led by frontier farmers who were upset by the policies of Jamestown's governor; ultimately led to a shift toward slavery

What is Bacon's Rebellion?

200

This colony was founded by a group called the Puritans who thought the Church of England could be reformed

What is Massachusetts Bay Colony

200
This year marked the convergence of the Old world and the New world, beginning with the explorations by Christopher Columbus

What is 1492?

200

This was the transfer of plants, animals, germs across the Atlantic.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

300

The Native American fixed agricultural settlement that centered around mound building and was located in present-day St. Louis, Missouri

What is Cahokia?

300

A governing document for Plymouth Colony signed by 41 men; the first agreement for self-government in America

What is the Mayflower Compact?

300

A small number of large landholders dominated the economy in these colonies, utilizing slave labor on cash crops like tobacco and rice

What are the Southern Colonies

300

This year marked the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the Colonies

What is 1619?

300

Merchant ships regularly followed a 3 part route known as

What is triangular trade?

400

The Native American tribe located in present-day NM and AZ that built pueblos, used irrigation, and traded arrowheads

What is the Anasazi tribe?

400

Ministers who took part in the revivalist, emotional religious tradition pioneered by George Whitefield during the Great Awakening.

Who are the New Lights?

400

These colonies were fairly democratic, but wealthy landowners still held the majority of power

What are the Middle Colonies

400

Metacom's war lasted for a year between these dates

What is 1675-1676?

400

This was the first colonial statute that granted religious freedom to all Christians

What was the Act of Toleration?

500

Anti-Spanish propaganda that believed Spaniards are uniquely evil in their approach to colonization

What is the Black Legend?

500

Laws that required colonists to ship certain products exclusively to England

What were the Navigation Acts?

500

Slavery, while it existed in all 3 regions, took the greatest hold here because of the need for farm labor.

What are the Southern colonies

500

Various Pueblo tribes revolted against the Spanish in this year

What is 1680?

500

The debate over the treatment of Native Americans in Spain was known as this.

What is the Valladolid debate?

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