Patterns of Colonization
This is a crop grown to be sold in large volumes for a profit.
What is a cash crop?
This group sailed to Massachusetts on the Mayflower
The southern colonies were known for having this type of economy.
What is agricultural?
These are people who work for a set amount of time in exchange for the payment of the costs of coming to the colonies.
Who are indentured servants?
Who was the "first" person to discover America (dominant narrative)
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What was the main motivation in starting the southern colonies?
What is to make money?
What is political freedom to make a religious society?
This was the name for the exchange between New England, Africa, and the Carribean/South
What is the triangle trade.
This is a group of wealthy land owners.
What are the planter class?
This is a physical object that can tell historians about the past.
What is an artifact?
This is a corporation where investors buy stock to fund the creation of the business/colony.
What is a joint stock company?
These founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were known for their very strict lifestyle.
Who are the Puritans?
This is who went from Africa to the Caribbean on the middle passage.
Who are enslaved people.
These were the groups that made up Bacon's militia (need 4)
Who are white indentured servants, poor white farmers, free black people, and enslaved people?
This broad colonial region had more families coming from England and generally was better educated.
What is New England?
This was one of the main religious groups in the middle colonies.
Who are the Quakers?
The Puritans were very strict, banning gift giving during this holiday.
What is Christmas?
This good is made from distilling molasses.
What is Rum?
This place was burned by Bacon's militia.
What is Jamestown?
The exchange of new goods, foods, and diseases between Europe and North/South America.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What was the main cash crop grown in the Caribbean colonies?
What is sugarcane?
This person's head was publicly displayed for years after the end of King Phillip's War.
Who was Metacom?
This person wrote an autobiography which is one of the only first hand accounts of the middle passage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano.
This was one of the most important outcome's of Bacon's Rebellion.
The codification of racial divisions to control the lower classes and the shift from indentured servitude to enslaved labor.
This was the name of the speech John Winthrop gave on the Arbella when it landed in New England.
What is City on a Hill?