Geography
This colony, founded by Jacques Cartier, extended from Hudson Bay to the Mississippi and from Acadia to the Rockies.
What is New France?
The motives for Spanish colonization.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This was a major motive for French colonization, as they established cooperative relationships with Native Americans to ensure access to valuable resources.
What is the fur trade?
A religious revival movement that swept through the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
Conflict between these two European powers made its way to the American colonies in 1754.
Who are the British and the French?
A Dutch colony that spanned modern-day New York and New Jersey.
What is New Netherland?
Founded in 1607, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The colonial region that had the highest percentage of exports of cash crops such as tobacco and rice.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This group of separatists founded Plymouth Colony and rejected the Church of England entirely.
Who are the Pilgrims?
Tensions over the fur and wampum trade led to this violent conflict, resulting in the massacre of over 500 natives at Mystic.
What are the Pequot Wars?
This British law set territorial limits on where European colonists could settle in America.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This English colonial policy involved removing indigenous populations and replacing them with English settlers.
What is plantation settlement?
The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic after European exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first European representative assembly in the New World, established in Virginia in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Named for a Wampanoag chief, this deadly conflict between natives and New England colonists occurred from 1675-1676.
What is King Philip’s War?
In order to reach Asia, explorers searched for this sea route that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This type of ship, known for its speed and maneuverability, was essential for 15th-century exploration.
What is a Caravel?
This economic theory promoted government regulation of trade to enhance state power.
What is mercantilism?
This religious movement aimed to purify the Church of England from its Roman Catholic practices.
What is Puritanism?
This 1622 attack killed nearly 350 colonists. The remaining Native Americans were forced to sign a treaty that consigned them to reservations.
What is the Jamestown Massacre?
This 1494 treaty, brokered by the Pope, divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal, influencing the colonial boundaries in the Americas.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Corporations that sold shares of stock to venturers, helping reduce the financial risks of founding colonies.
What are joint-stock companies?
Trade laws enacted by Parliament to support the mercantilist system.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This policy allowed the colonies to self-govern as long as Britain profited economically.
What is Salutary Neglect?
American colonists became involved in this war because they desired to expand into new lands, particularly westward into the Ohio River Valley.