Early Encounters (Period 1)
Signed in 1620, this document established an early agreement for self-government based on majority rule among the Pilgrims.
What was the Dominion of New England?
The cash crop that saved Jamestown and became the foundation of Virginia's economy.
What is tobacco?
The brutal ocean voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What was the Middle Passage?
The 1675 conflict between New England colonists and a alliance of tribes led by a chief named Metacom.
What was King Philip's War?
The 1730s–1740s religious movement that spread passionate preaching and emotional church revivals throughout the colonies.
What was the First Great Awakening?
Established in Virginia in 1619, this was the first representative assembly in the American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The group that arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 seeking religious freedom.
Who were the Pilgrims (Puritans)?
A 1676 uprising of former indentured servants in Virginia caused by anger over Native land disputes and political power.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
The 1680 uprising in New Mexico that temporarily drove the Spanish military out of Native territory.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
John Winthrop told Puritans that Massachusetts Bay Colony should be a moral model for the world, using this famous 4-word phrase.
What is a "City Upon a Hill"?
European contact caused millions of Native Americans to die primarily because of this.
What are European diseases (such as smallpox)?
William Penn founded his colony as a safe home for this pacifist religious group.
Who were the Quakers?
The 1692 event in Massachusetts where local religious fears led to the execution of 20 people accused of witchcraft.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
Unlike the French, the British constantly fought with Native Americans because British settlers wanted this resource.
What is land?
The European movement during the 1700s that emphasized science, reason, and human rights over blind faith.
What was the Enlightenment?
The short-lived administrative union created by King James II in 1686 to enforce the Navigation Acts and tighten royal control over New England.
What was the Dominion of New England?
Georgia was originally founded as a place for debtors and as a protection zone against this foreign colony.
What is Spanish Florida?
The economic idea that colonies exist to make money and send resources back to the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Breaking tools, working slowly, and keeping cultural traditions alive are all examples of this type of resistance by enslaved people.
What is covert resistance (or passive resistance)?
Early English colonies like Jamestown were funded by these business groups where investors pooled their money together.
What are joint-stock companies?
The Spanish priest who famously criticized the cruel treatment of Native Americans.
Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas?
Maryland was established in 1632 primarily as a haven for members of this religious group.
What is Catholicism (Catholics)?
Benjamin Franklin's 1754 "Join or Die" cartoon urged the colonies to unite using this proposed plan.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
Religious settlements set up across the Southwest by Catholic priests to convert Native Americans to Spanish culture.
What are missions?
British laws passed to force the American colonies to trade only with England.
What were the Navigation Acts?