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This European country was the first to begin colonization with its efforts in Africas in the 1400s.

What is Portugal

100
This town was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony
What is Jamestown
100

Title given to the representative assembly in colonial Virginia.

What is House of Burgesses

100

This form of labor was initially used in the Chesapeake and required a certain number of years of labor in exchange for passage across the Atlantic.

What is indentured servitude

100
This crop was most likely to be grown in the West Indies
What is sugar
200
This country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
What is France
200
This rebellion of indentured servants led to the transformation of Virginia's labor system
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
The name given to the interaction between North, Central, South America and the West Indies, Africa and Europe
What is Columbian Exchange
200
This group settled Plymouth colony, hoping for religious freedom
Who are the Pilgrims or Seperatists
200
This was the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
What is Encomienda
300
This country settled primarily in modern day Brazil and many other parts of South America, establishing one of the greatest slave societies in the world
What is Portugal
300
English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors
What are the Navigation Acts
300

This is the term used to describe individuals who raised crops for their own families rather than planting crops for sale as an export commodity

What is subsistence farming

300
This group settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and placed it under harsh religious rule until the end of the 17th century
Who are the Puritans
300
This Native American fought against settlers in New England in the 1670's after most Native Americans had either been killed off by disease or displaced
Who is King Philip or Metacom
400

The woman expelled from Massachusetts Bay colony who challenged male authority.

Who is Anne Hutchinson

400
This group of Native Americans established a constitution that united differing tribes in upstate New York
Who are the Iroquois
400

The economic theory that promoted a closed trading empire and encouraged the development of colonies for materials that would be transported back to the mother country to be processed and sold. 

What is mercantilism

400
This system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival
What is the headright system
400

This group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that all people (Native Americans, Africans etc.) were holy; they were also radical egalitarians.

Who are the Quakers

500
This labor intensive, yet profitable crop was grown in South Carolina and other areas of the south in the early and mid-18th century - leading to an explosion in the slave population of the colonies
What is rice
500
A colony chartered by the crown and governed by officials appointed to serve the monarchy and represent its interests
What is royal colony
500
This term is used to describe the brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that took the lives of nearly a million enslaved Africans
What is the Middle Passage
500
Term used to describe inheritance system that gave the eldest son all of the fathers estate
What is Primogeniture
500
This term could be used to describe British colonial policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations during the reigns of George I
What is Salutary Neglect