The Contest for North America: 1500-1664
This was the biggest disrupter of Native American life in the seventeenth century
What is European disease
This Massachusetts dissenter claimed that the truly saved need not obey the laws of God or man.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This land policy granted 50 acres to anyone who paid for a laborer’s passage to America
What was the headright system?
One result of Bacon’s Rebellion was that planters increasingly turned to this labor source.
Who were enslaved Africans?
This 1777 battle was one of the most decisive in American and world history, convincing France to join the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This span of years is known as the “Starving Time,” when only 60 of 400 Virginia settlers survived.
What was 1609–1610?
This Puritan leader served as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was John Winthrop?
This was the name of the brutal transatlantic voyage endured by enslaved Africans.
What was the Middle Passage?
Virginia’s 1662 slave codes established a legal distinction based on this factor
What was race?
This British prime minister implemented more coercive policies toward the American colonies starting in 1763.
Who is George Grenville?
This agricultural practice displaced small farmers and pushed many to seek opportunity in America.
What was enclosure?
This 1675–1676 war effectively ended major Native resistance in New England.
What was King Philip's War?
After gaining freedom, most former indentured servants had little choice but to do this.
What was hiring themselves out for low wages?
Rising wages in this country reduced the supply of indentured servants and encouraged greater reliance on enslaved Africans.
What was England?
This 1783 treaty formally ended the American Revolutionary War and granted independence to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Because of this inheritance system, younger sons sought fortunes in colonization.
What is primogeniture?
This elected legislative body was established in Virginia in 1619.
What was the House of Burgesses?
This Virginia governor’s refusal to retaliate against Native attacks sparked a 1676 uprising.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This economic philosophy held that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
He was chosen by the Philadelphia Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence due to his eloquent writing skills.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This English monarch revoked the Virginia Company’s charter, making Virginia a royal colony
Who was James I?
This 1620 agreement aboard ship was a key step toward colonial self-government.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Compared to the Chesapeake, New England had this type of economy
What was a more diversified economy?
Pre-category: This person introduced Tobacco to the Chesapeake
John Rolfe
After this 1781 battle, King George III wanted to continue the war but his ministers sought peace.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?