CONNECTIONS
This concept describes the mutual exchange of goods, gifts, and social responsibilities that characterized many Indigenous societies.
What is reciprocity?
This was the officially established state Church of England.
What is the Anglican Church?
This Spanish missionary established Catholic missions in California and sought to convert Indigenous peoples.
Who was Father Junipero Serra?
These stories described the experiences of colonists captured by Native Americans.
What are captivity narratives?
This system gave land to settlers who paid for the passage of workers to the colonies.
What is the headright system?
This English legal system generally meant that a married woman’s legal and property rights were subsumed by her husband.
What is coverture?
This representative institution established in Virginia became an early example of colonial self-government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
These conflicts resulted from growing English settlement and competition with the Powhatan peoples in Virginia.
What were the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
This idea emphasized individual rights, liberty, property, and limits on government power.
What is liberalism?
This region developed farther from established coastal communities and became associated with new settlement and colonial expansion.
What was the backcountry?
This term describes regions where different peoples, cultures, and empires competed and interacted over power and resources.
What is a borderland?
This concept referred to the traditional rights and liberties that English subjects believed they possessed.
What is English liberty?
This conflict involving South Carolina colonists and Native peoples exposed tensions over trade, slavery, and colonial expansion.
What was the Yamasee War?
This idea emphasized civic virtue and participation in the political community.
What is republicanism?
This English agricultural development consolidated land, displaced some rural workers, and contributed to migration in search of economic opportunities.
What was the Enclosure movement?
This group represented smaller farms, generally relying on family or limited hired labor.
What are yeoman farmers?
This 1754 proposal called for greater cooperation among the British colonies.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
This conflict challenged British expansion in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War.
What was Pontiac’s War?
This agreement attempted to address declining Puritan church membership by allowing the children of baptized but unconverted members to participate in the church.
What was the Half-Way Covenant?
This term describes the large farms that produced crops for sale using enslaved labor.
What are plantations?
This policy allowed colonists considerable freedom to manage many local affairs.
What is salutary neglect?
This alliance was formed by the Iroquois Confederacy to promote peace among its member nations.
What is the Great League of Peace?
Issued after the French and Indian War, this British policy attempted to limit colonial expansion into Native lands west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This series of accusations and trials reflected continuing religious tensions, fears, and conflicts within late seventeenth-century New England.
What were the Salem witch trials?
This colonial labor system required a period of work in exchange for transportation to America.
What are redemptioners?