Colonies
First corporate colony.
What is Jamestown colony?
Settlement founded by Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Colony characterized by fertile farming land that produced wheat, oats, fruits, and raised livestock and port cities with flourishing logging, shipbuilding, and fishing industries.
What are the middle colonies?
Movement the Great Awakening was a response to.
What is the Enlightenment?
Workers under contracts of 4–7 years with a master or landowner who paid their passage to the colonies.
Who are Indentured Servants?
What are the Breadbasket Colonies?
Colonies under the control of the King.
What are Royal Colonies?
Founder of Maryland, who was a devoted Catholic.
Who is George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)?
Region characterized by small family farms with an economy focused on extraction and exporting of natural resources such as furs, iron, timber, and fish. (2x)
What are the New England colonies?
Revolt of angry indentured servants and backcountry farmers in Virginia that led to the shifting of labor away from indentured servitude towards African slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion (1676–1677)?
Rebellion of enslaved Africans in South Carolina who sought freedom by marching down to Florida.
What is the Stone Rebellion of 1739?
What is the Headright System?
Colonies under the authority of people given lands by the king to establish.
What are proprietary colonies?
Helped save Virginia from collapse in its early years by introducing tobacco which became a cash crop for the Chesapeake colonies.
John Rolfe
Main cash crop for the colonies of Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
Puritan belief that from birth individuals were predetermined whether they were "God's chosen people."
What is Predestination?
Decline of these labor forces led to an increase in the use of African slaves by the late-17th century (late-1600s).
What are Indentured Servants and Indian Slaves?
Forced the Spanish out of the American Southwest for 12 years.
What is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
Colonies operated by joint-stock companies.
What are corporate colonies?
Establish a strict work routine in Virginia to help the colony overcome starvation.
Who is Captain John Smith?
Economic policy focused on maximizing exports and minimizing the imports for a nation. (Enriching the parent country)
What is mercantilism?
Non-English immigrants to 13 colonies.
Who are Germans and Scotch-Irish
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What is the Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)?
Colony founded by and for Puritans.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
First representative colonial assembly in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Main cash crop of the Carolinas.
What is Rice?
Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
War that occurred in 1637 after a fur trader was said to be killed by Native Americans in New England.
What is the Pequot War?
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Created by the joining of Hartford and New Haven.
What is Connecticut?
First document to establish self-government in the colonies and served a model for the constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade England.
What are the Navigation Acts (1650–1673)?
Puritan idea that hard work, frugality, diligence, and faith were necessary for a person to be able to go to Heaven. (2x)
What is Protestant Work Ethic?
Settlements created in New England to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What are Praying Towns (Praying Indians)?
Britain's relaxed enforcement of colonial trade rules is known as this.
What is Salatury Neglect?
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Phenomenon that saw the migration of ~21,000 Puritans Massachusetts Bay by 1642.
What is the Great Migration?
Case that set the precedent for freedom of the press.
What is the Zenger Case (1735)?
Society w/ no distinction between the laws of the Puritan church and laws of the colony.
What is a Theocratic Society?
Colonies where settlers owned slaves. (3x)
What are the 13 colonies?
Whereas the Puritans in New England wanted to establish "a City Upon A Hill," what was William Penn's vision for Pennsylvania?
What is the "Holy Experiment"?
Created by the joining of Providence and Portsmouth.
What is Rhode Island?
First written constitution in America in 1639. (2x)
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Name 2 pros and 2 cons of mercantilist policies for the colonies.
Specific class of people that developed in major trading centers such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Characterized by the selling of goods.
What is the Merchant Class?
Specific type of economy held by the Southern colonies that relied on enslaved labor. (Hint: Yes, agriculture, but looking for another term that described the magnitude of the agricultural production compared to the middle colonies) (2x)
What is a plantation economy?
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