Transformations of North America
Named after Christopher Columbus, the transfer of plants, animals, cultures, peoples, diseases into North America
What is the Columbian Exchange?
1651, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels
What are the Navigation Acts?
The belief that the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. (Calvinists)
What is predestination?
The largest slave uprising in the mainland colonies, near Stono River, slaves wanted to escape to St. Augustine, rebelled because of war between England and Spain
What is the Stono Rebellion?
First settlement in America and the group that started it
What is Jamestown and the Virginia Company of London?
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protection
What is mercantilism?
war between the Europeans in New England and the Wampanoag tribe when the settlers restricted their tribe
What is Metacom's War?
armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by nathaniel _____ to protest the concentrated power with a small group of wealthy men
What is Bacon's Rebellion?