New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. - A.D. 1768
The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
American Life in Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775
100
The modern form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity.
What is a nation-state?
100
Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state.
What is Nationalism?
100
The Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned
What is predestination?
100
That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
100
A person who works under a master to acquire instruction in a trade or profession.
What is an apprentice?
200
An alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a federation.
What is a confederacy?
200
The legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land.
What is primogeniture?
200
Concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to individuals by the monarch
What is "proprietary"?
200
To take away the right to vote
What is to disenfranchise?
200
Buying land or anything else in the hope of profiting by an expected rise in price.
What is speculation?
300
A large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crop and usually employing coerced or slave labor
What is a plantation?
300
An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment
What are joint-stock companies?
300
The granting of citizenship to foreigners or immigrants.
What is naturalization?
300
The territory adjoining water affected by tides-this is, near the seacoast or coastal rivers.
What is the tidewater?
300
Belonging to the worldly sphere rather than to the specifically sacred or churchly.
What is secular?
400
A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas.
What is a conquistador?
400
A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations.
What is a charter?
400
In Calvinist doctrine, those who have been chosen by God for salvation.
What are The Elect?
400
An armed force of citizens called out only in emergencies.
What is a militia?
400
In religion, a movement of renewed enthusiasm and commitment, often accompanied by special meetings or evangelical activity.
What is revival?
500
The Spanish labor system in which persons were help to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by them.
What is "encomienda"?
500
A poor person obligated to a fixed term of labor.
What is an "indentured servant "?
500
Absolute or dictatorial rule
What is autocratic?
500
The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the person who finances the passage of a laborer.
What is headright?
500
The visible arrangement of society into a hierarchical pattern, with distinct social groups layered one on top of the other.
What is stratification?
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