Colonial Regions
This colonial region’s economy centered on cash crops like tobacco and rice and heavily relied on slave labor.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This exchange involved the movement of plants, animals, diseases, and technology between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colonial region, the setting of the Witch Trials, had strictly religious-based laws and customs.
What is New England (or the Northern Colonies)?
According to the data, this was the most common form of resistance to slavery in New York.
What is escape (or running away)?
This colonial founder wrote a letter to the Lenape Nation promising a kind, just, and peaceable life based on his Quaker religion.
Who is William Penn?
This was the most popular religion in the New England Colonies, which influenced the colony's laws and customs.
What is Puritanism?
This was the horrible middle section of the Triangular Trade route across the Atlantic Ocean, which enslaved Africans were forced to travel.
What is the Middle Passage?
In the context of the Salem Witch Trials, this word describes the ability or right to control people or things in the town.
What is power?
According to escape reports in New York, this gender was responsible for the vast majority (82.4%) of runaways.
What are males?
Senator Harry Reid stated that the Washington football team's former name was a reminder of a long tradition of this negative concept toward Native Americans.
What is racism and bigotry?
This colonial region was known for its cultural diversity, with many different groups and religions like Quakers, Catholics, and Jews settling there.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The number one reason for the massive death of Native American populations after the Columbian Exchange was the introduction of European examples of this.
What are diseases (or germs)?
The Salem Witch Trials took place after this major confrontation between the colonies and nearby Native Americans, which led to disorder in the region.
What is King Philip’s War?
After a slave conspiracy was uncovered in New York City in 1740, 13 slaves were punished with this extreme form of execution.
What is being burned alive?
William Penn noted that previous Europeans had caused "great grudgings and animosities" that sometimes led to the shedding of this among the Native Americans.
What is blood?
In the New Haven Colony, one could only be named a free citizen if they were a landowner and a member of this type of religious institution.
What is an approved church?
The lack of fresh air and the stench of the hold and necessary tubs caused many deaths for enslaved people during this traumatic journey.
What is the stench of the hold (or necessary tubs)?
In a letter to her husband, Abigail Adams famously requested that he "Remember the Ladies" and not keep this "harsh title" which she associated with tyranny.
What is Master?
A planter named Peter Fontaine justified slavery by arguing that an enslaved person provided cheap, skilled labor for this duration of time.
What is for life?
The U.S. Patent Office revoked this legal protection for the Washington team's name because it was ruled to be "disparaging of Native Americans".
What is federal trademark?
The Maryland Slave Law of 1664 stated that a slave would serve "durante vita," which translates to this period of time.
What is hard labor for life?
The Middle Passage was one route in this larger system of exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Abigail Adams demonstrated this type of power by attempting to use her influence to change laws that bound women "in which we have no voice, or Representation".
What is Political Power?
This is the term for the large farms in the Southern Colonies that depended on enslaved labor to keep agricultural operations like tobacco and rice running.
What are Plantations?
In the context of the Salem Witch Trials, the King Philip's War is an example of a conflict where this group of people in the colonies were forced into confrontation and lost land.
Who are the Native Americans (or Amerindians)?