Systems of Protest/Beliefs
These are two interrelated movements in which changing beliefs about religion, affected principles of government.
What are the Great Awakening and Enlightenment?
This document was the first attempt at establishing the importance of self-governance and democracy in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact? It was an important step in the development of democracy in America.
This colonial region depended on slaves to sustain farming of cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies? The Southern Colonies' strength was agricultural to farm sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo - cash crops meant to produce profits, and not typically for local consumption. The enslaved population eventually outnumbered the Southern colonists.
This country came to the New World looking for God, Gold, and Glory.
The system by which lord proprietors (wealthy landowners) would pay for workers' passage to the North American colonies, in exchange for labor.
What is indentured servitude?
This event was the result of a growing fear of the Devil, a fascination with death, and women who had become "too independent" in New England.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
The belief that the people need to be consent to be governed, and in exchange will give up rights for order, security and protection from the government.
What is the Social Contract?
To meet the demand for workers, landowners in this region used indentured servants from England.
What are the Southern colonies?
This country had conquistadors explore the Americas.
What is Spain? Many Spanish soldiers and explorers traveled to the Americas after Christopher Columbus made the first trip in 1492. These conquistadors sailed to the Americas to conquer the native peoples, to spread Christianity, and to look for gold and other treasure.
This region primarily produced cash crops, such as rice, indigo, tobacco, cotton and sugar.
What are the Southern colonies?
The separatists founded this region of colonies in 1620.
What are the New England/North American colonies? The separatists wanted to remain "separate" from the Protestant Reformation ideals and came to the New World seeking the freedom to practice their religious ideals. The Pilgrims settled in Plymouth colony, which they called New England.
Unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade
What is Salutary Neglect?
These colonies were established to find gold, but after not finding any, started to profit from tobacco.
What are the Southern colonies? The Virginia Company of London founded the colony of Jamestown, where settlers dug, washed, refined, and loaded gold - but it was actually gilded dirt! The southern colonies suffered harsh diseases (malaria) and harsh winters, and learned to harvest/use tobacco from the natives. The the wealthy settlers were unprepared for manual labor, and falling prices of tobacco and conflict with the natives led to Bacon's rebellion.
This country primarily relied on the fur trade, and small-scale farming and lumber for profit.
What is France? The French had a mutually beneficial relationship with the Native Americans and would trade French goods in exchange for furs.
This is the system of balance for trade import/export of materials for profit.
What is Mercantilism?
In order to draw attention to their concerns about safety, taxes, and political representation, this farmer launched a rebellion against Virginia’s Governor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion? Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was the first popular uprising in the American colonies. Causes: Economic problems, high taxes, and conflicts with Native Americans. It was an early revolt against English tyranny, which culminated in the war for independence one hundred years later.
The first democratically elected legislative body in the colonies made up of assemblies and councils.
What is the House of Burgesses? It marked an important precedent because it allowed citizens to participate in government and make decisions.
This was the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This country allowed anyone, regardless of religion or nation, to immigrate & granted political freedom to their colonists.
What is the Dutch/Netherlands? The English empire did not grant political freedom - they instead had the policy of Salutary Neglect, and each colony ultimately reported to and profited for the Royal empire. The Dutch West India Company's Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions of 1629 offered Dutch wealthy Dutch investors large land grants (patroonships), government power (create civil and criminal courts, appoint local officials), and fur trade participation in exchange for settlers for the colonies (required 50 families within 4 years)
This section of the Triangular Trade is where African Slaves were brought to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
These colonies were known for their uniform thinking and regular assemblies, as well as for relying mostly on trade, lumber, iron, and whale oil.
What is New England?
This country originally founded Manhattan, which was later bought and renamed New York.
What is the Netherlands/Dutch? The Dutch originally named the land Manhattan and the British purchased it and renamed it New York.
This region had two of the best ports in the colonies and relied on grain and livestock for profit.
What are the middle colonies? The northern colonies participated in small-scale agriculture, lumber, fishing, and trade, where the majority of shipments happened. But New York & Boston became two major ports in the middle colonies.
This country developed a policy of Salutary Neglect that allowed colonists to create local laws.
What is England? The Royal empire did not financially sponsor the colonies, and the colonies did ultimately report back to England. Though each colony had a Royally appointed governor, and their own assemblies and councils, the Royally appointed governors could overturn any laws as they deemed fit.
Which policy governed the requirement of raw goods from the colonies to be exported to only English ports and the import of only English manufactured goods to the colonies?
What are the Navigation Acts?