Settling into the continent
The name of the first ship that brought British colonists to North America
What is the Mayflower
The forced migration of African Americans to the middle passage for trade.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The first document of self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
North American religious revival in the middle of the eighteenth century.
What is the Great Awakening?
Violent conflict in Virginia (1675–1676), beginning with settler attacks on Indians but culminating in a rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia’s government.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The expedition in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, which led to the establishment of permanent colonies in America.
What is European Colonization?
The voyage of slave ships, which was in the middle of the trading triangle from England to Africa to America and back to England.
What is the Middle passage?
Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth’s reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What are Puritans?
Members of Puritan churches governed by congregations.
What are Congregationalists?
Conflict in New England (1675–1676) between Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and other Indian peoples against English settlers; sparked by English encroachments on native lands.
What is King Philip's War?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and cultures between the Old and New Worlds that had a profound impact on both countries.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This Crop increased slave labor and it first came from the Middle East
What is Sugarcane?
Members of the Society of Friends, a radical religious group that arose in the mid-seventeenth century. Quakers rejected formal theology, focusing instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelt within them.
What are Quakers?
Plan adopted in 1662 by New England clergy to deal with the problem of declining church member-ship, allowing children of baptized parents to be baptized whether or not their parents had experienced conversion.
What are the Old Lights?
The first of a series of colonial struggles between England and France; these conflicts occurred principally on the frontiers of northern New England and New York between 1689 and 1697.
What is King William’s War?
The Spanish had established this system to regulate the labor of the indigenous people in the Americas.
What is the Encomienda system?
These were lands discovered by the Europeans in the Americas, where many slaves were transported quickly for a cheap price.
What is the New World
Members of an offshoot branch of Puritanism. Separatists believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence were convinced they must “separate” from it to save their souls.
What are Separatists or Pilgrims?
Intellectual movement stressing the importance of reason and the existence of discoverable natural laws.
What is Enlightenment?
Series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640s and 1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region.
What are the Beaver Wars?
This crop was a staple crop to the Americas and it was cultivated by American Indians which helped develop a more sedentary lifestyle.
What is Maize?
This was the first voyage of slaves going directly from Africa to the Americas.
What is 1525
William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania which included a provision allowing for religious freedom.
What is the Frame of Government?
Religious faction that condemned emotional enthusiasm as part of the heresy of believing in a personal and direct relationship with God outside the order of the church.
What are the Old Lights?
Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in eastern Connecticut.
What is the Pequot War?