Native Peoples and First Encounters
This theory posits that early humans arrived in the Americas via a land bridge from Asia.
What is the Bering Land Bridge Theory?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The leg of the Triangular Trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This 1765 tax required colonists to pay for official stamps on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This intellectual movement emphasized reason, individual rights, and science.
What is the Enlightenment?
Native societies in the Southwest built homes from this sun-dried material.
What is adobe?
This 1620 agreement established a basic form of democracy for the Plymouth settlers.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This term describes the condition where enslaved people were treated as property for life.
What is chattel slavery?
Colonists protested British tea policies in this 1773 event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He wrote about natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
This trio of staple crops formed the basis of many Native American diets.
What are beans, squash, and corn?
This was the primary plantation cash crop in the Chesapeake colonies.
What is tobacco?
This type of employment arrangement contracted a laborer for 4-7 years, after which they would be set free and have 50 acres of their own land.
What is indentured servitude?
This term describes Britain’s unofficial policy of allowing the colonies a large degree of self-rule, which allowed them to grow on their own.
What is salutary neglect?
This religious revival emphasized emotional preaching and challenged established churches.
What is the Great Awakening?
This theory challenges the Bering Land Bridge Theory by suggesting migration from Europe across the North Atlantic.
What is the Solutrean Hypothesis?
This term refers to the brutal early period of the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown when many settlers died.
What is the Starving Time?
In this 1739 uprising, enslaved Africans in South Carolina rebelled against plantation owners.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This 1775 battle marked the first armed conflict between colonial and British forces.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This fiery preacher delivered the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
This myth falsely portrays pre-Columbian America as untouched, sparsely populated, and in perfect ecological harmony.
What is the Pristine Myth?
One key difference in motivation: Jamestown sought wealth, while Plymouth settlers came primarily for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
Europeans turned to African slaves over Native Americans due to this vulnerability of Native populations.
What is susceptibility to disease and high mortality?
This 1774 meeting of colonial delegates responded to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This British policy sought to maximize exports, minimize imports, and use colonies for their natural resources.
What is mercantilism?