European Colonization
This early labor system was used primarily by Spanish conquistadors.
What is the encomendia system?
This system was the introduction of goods between the old world and the new world.
The Columbian Exchange
This first of its kind document in the British North American colonies served as a basis for representative government in the region.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This organization was the best example of representative democracy in the Chesapeake region.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This intellectual movement influenced many British colonial governing documents.
What is the Enlightenment.
This system identified social hierarchy based exclusively on race.
Spanish Caste System
Native American culture grew increasingly more complex and stable thanks to this crop.
What is maize (corn)?
German, Scotts-Irish, Dutch, Swedish
This system encouraged land owners to bring indentured servants to Virginia through land grants.
What is the Headright System?
This preacher told his congregation they were as spiders held above a fire.
Who was Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God)?
Which European power was least concerned with the conversation of Natives to a christian religion?
Who are the English (maybe Dutch, too)?
Native American populations were most significantly diminished because of this.
What is disease (smallpox primarily)?
Who is Rodger Williams?
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
This one impact of the Great Awakening in British North American colonies.
Early colonial unification.
Challenging authority.
Returning to organized religions (largely due to fear).
Groups of New Lights and Old Lights
Name a conflict between Native Americans and British colonists over boundaries and borders.
Anglo-Powhattan Wars (VA)
Metacomb's War (King Philip's War) (New England)
Pequot Wars (MA)
Most Native Americans that were forced into religious conversion were converted by the _(country)_______ to ___(religion)____.
Spanish and French to Catholicism.
All four colonial regions were subject to export all crops on British ships, passing through ports in England, thanks this (barely enforced) law.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This was a way enslaved Africans preserved some autonomy despite their condition as forced laborers.
Fictive kinship, armed rebellions, sabotaged work, Preserved/blended languages, run away, Preserved/blended religions, Maroon communities
This individual was known for their open air preaching, gathering and uniting tens of thousands of observers at various engagements.
Who was George Whitefield
This conflict between Spanish colonists and Native Americans saw the Spanish driven out of parts of the American Southwest for over a decade.
What is Pope's Rebellion (aka Pueblo Revolt)?
This Spanish citizen tried to bring attention to the brutal mistreatment of Native Americans after himself once owning Native enslaved people.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
This court case protected freedom of the press in New York colony.
What is the Zenger Trial?
This conflict led Virginians to significantly question their use of indentured servants as a means for inexpensive labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have this in common.
What is challenging authority? What is democratization of ideas?