New World, New Empires
This crop introduced to Virginia degraded the soil but brought great economic prosperity to the colony.
What is tobacco?
Colonies of this nation had the best relationships with Native Americans, due to their dependency on natives for the fur trade.
Who are the French?
Which region earned the nickname the "breadbasket" of the colonies due to their large grain production.
What is the Middle Colonies?
Although Massachusetts was founded for this reason, ironically the Puritans didn't allow any of it among their own residents.
What is religious freedom?
This cash crop, grown in the Carribbean and some southern colonies, was a major driver of the Transatlantic slave trade.
What is sugar?
This rebellion was caused in part by the anger of poor colonists at the Native Americans, but the notable violence was directed at the elites.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Later called New York, this colony was originally settled by another country.
Who are the Dutch or the Netherlands?
The religious revival movement that swept the colonies in the 1730s-1740s.
What is the (First) Great Awakening?
After Bacon's Rebellion, the elite planters stopped relying on __________ and started using African slaves for their labor.
What are indentured servants?
This conflict between New England settlers and Wampanoag forces resulted in the destruction of many colonial towns and the weakening of Indigenous resistance in the region.
What is Metacom's War or King Phillip's War?
This colony was known for comparatively positive relations with natives and Quaker beliefs.
What is Pennsylvania?
This colony was founded by a group of religious dissenters who were banished by Puritans.
What is Rhode Island?
These laws were passed to enforce mercantilist goals, but were rarely enforced.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1680 uprising in the Southwest successfully drove out Spanish settlers for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
(Or Pope's Rebellion)
This colony was founded by a joint-stock company, where investors shared the financial risk, in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
All of the new churches that resulted from the Great Awakening required that members experience a _____________ in order to be saved.
What is a conversion experience ?
Half points for rebirth or new birth.
The name of Britain's unofficial policy of failing to enforce tariffs and restrictions on trade with the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
The treaty that ended this conflict in New England attempted to erase the tribe it was named after.
What is the Pequot War?
The House of Burgesses, the first representative government in the colonies, was established in this colony.
Old Lights were known for being rational and boring preachers, and New Lights were known to be extremely _______________
Emotional or passionate