People
In 1676, this Virginia planter led a rebellion of frontier settlers against Governor Berkeley over land, Native relations, and corruption
Nathaniel Bacon
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World after 1492
Columbian Exchange
These in colonial America; defined slavery as lifetime servitude, inheritable servitude and usually forbade whites from teaching slaves to read or write
slave codes
This was the name of the tribe that came into conflict with the settlers at Jamestown
The Powhatan
During the seventeenth century, ______ solved the labor problem in many English colonies
Indentured Servitude
This led to the founding of many schools, split colonial churches into several competing denominations, undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies. It was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people.
The Great Awakening
The person most often called the “first civilized American” was
This was the most brutal part of the Triangular Trade, which brought African slaves to the Americas
Middle Passage
These provided the financial backing for the first British settlements in the New World.
Joint Stock Companies
This 1733 British law placed a heavy tax on several imported goods from non-British colonies, encouraging smuggling in New England
Molasses Act
This made some people very wealthy, entailed giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.
Headright system
Name one well known preacher of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield
The Puritan Governor of Massachusetts who said, “We shall be a city on a hill” a beacon for all humanity.
John Winthrop
Established in 1619, this institution brought limited representative government to Virginia.
The House of Burgesses
These were the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts
Salem Witch Trials
This Native American uprising resulted in the Spanish being pushed out of New Mexico for more than 50 years.
Pueblo Revolt (Pope's Rebellion)
The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was
Lumbering
This admitted to baptism but not full church membership the unconverted children of existing Puritan members
Half Way Covenant
His writings stand out as a critique of the Spanish actions immediately following the discovery of the New World.
Bartolome de las Casas
Name one of the two ESTABLISHED Churches in the Colonies prior to the Great Awakening
Anglican Church OR Congregational (Puritan) Church
Puritan (Calvinist) belief that from the moment of creation some souls were “saved” and others “damned”
Predestination
This term refers to the period when some British laws in the colonies (ie: Navigation laws) went uninforced
Salutory Neglect
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
Ministry
He fled Massachusetts after conflict with religious elders, founded the Baptist Church, and allowed complete religious freedom in his colony, Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Colonial newspaper printer who was accused of seditious libel, was found innocent of the charges brought against him and printed comments accusing the royal governor of corruption.
John Peter Zenger
This immigrant group, many of whom settled on the frontier in the 1700s, were known for their independence, Presbyterian faith, and conflicts with Native Americans
Scots-Irish
By the 18th century, most English colonies were this type, ruled directly by the crown through a royal governor
Royal Colony
This was the most deadly war per capita in American history, and resulted in the lasting defeat of New England Indians.
King Phillip's War
One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain.
Passed in Maryland, this 1649 law guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians, though it did not extend to non-Christians
Act of Toleration (1649)