Pre-Colombian Contact
Where did the 1st people to settle North America migrate from?
Asia - Crosses over on an ice bridge
What document established majority rule in the Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
What state was first to import the slave codes from Barbados?
Virginia
Who was the Puritan leader who wished to establish a ‘city on a hill’.
JOHN WINTHROP
Define salutary neglect
British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep British colonies obedient to England.
What crop’s diffusion helped explain migratory patterns of the American Indians?
Corn
What was the name given to the Puritan migration to the New World?
The Great Puritan Migration
Who was the founder of
•a)Pennsylvania
•b)Maryland
A) William Penn
B) Cecilius Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
First constitution in America?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
What colony was originally established as a Catholic Haven?
Maryland
•What treaty divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal?
•Who opposed Bartoleme de Las Casas?
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda - the human sacrifice of innocents, cannibalism, and other such "crimes against nature" were unacceptable and should be suppressed by any means possible including war
What belief did Anne Hutchinson have that put her in conflict with the Puritan Church?
You do not have to go to church to go to heaven. Faith alone should merit salvation
•Who was the primary founder of Georgia?
•What were two reasons for creating the colony?
•James Oglethorpe
• Haven for those imprisoned in England as Debtors and Block the Carolinas from Spain
•First legislative body in North America?
•Act that provided tolerance to all Christians in Maryland?
• House of Burgesses
•The Maryland Toleration Act
What belief did Roger Williams have that put him at odds with the Puritan Church?
Separation of Church and State - Government involvement in religion amounted to forced worship
What economic system did the Spanish set up in the New World?
What Native American group was most successful in resistance?
Encomienda
Pueblo
What was the largest war the New England colonies fought on their own?
King Phillip's War
Colonist vs the Wampanoag tribe
•What crop ultimately saved Jamestown?
•Who introduced the crop?
•How did this crop’s production lead to conflict with the Native Americans?
• Tobacco
• John Rolfe
• They planted too much of this crop and not enough food. Led to a resource conflict for the food that the Natives planted
•Who led the Stono rebellion?
Jemmy
What colony showed the greatest resistance to the navigation acts?
Massachusetts
Describe the Native American populations in the Southwest, The plains, and the Northeast.
Southwest: adobe housing, light clothing, built into the mountains
Plains: Tepees, hunted buffalo, migratory
Northeast: Wooden structures, fishing, rivers, moccasins
•What caused the Pequot War?
•What organization is created as a result of the Pequot War?
Killing of an English fur trader
The Conneticicut River Colony - The Mohegan and Narragansett tribes and the three English settlements that kicked out the Pequot in the Treaty of Hartford
•What was the largest slave revolt in the colonial era?
•What act was a direct response to this revolt?
• Stono Rebellion
• Negro Act of 1740 - required a ratio of one white to ten blacks on any plantation. It prohibited slaves from growing their own food, assembling in groups, earning money, or learning to read.
What conflict greatly influenced William Berkeley’s actions leading to the destruction of Jamestown?
Bacon's Rebellion
A) What event prevented British involvement in the Pequot War?
B) What event led to the overthrow of the Dominion of New England?
A) 30 Years War
B) The Glorious Revolution