Period 1
The artificial reconnection of the Old World and the New World led to the exchange of diseases, plants, animals, and people.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
European settlers of the Chesapeake colonies primarily came in search of this.
What is money?
The primary cash crop that helped Jamestown’s financial success.
What is Tobacco
A deadly consequence of the Columbian Exchange.
What is disease?
After a set of religious revivals from the 1730s onward, believers emphasized this practice.
The primary factor that negatively impacted the population of the Americas.
What are diseases?
Settlers came to the New England colonies primarily in search of these social opportunities.
What is social mobility, religious freedom, and/or liberty?
An English settlement founded by a joint-stock company.
What is Jamestown?
The Native American chief who controlled the tribes that surrounded Jamestown.
Who is Powhatan?
Diverse settlement in terms of migrants, religious toleration, and food production.
What is the Middle Colonies?
The effect of the rise of the use of enslaved Africans, European perception of untamed wilderness, and declined ability to fight European incursion.
What are the consequences of Native population loss?
Many different types of people settled in the New World, but the Middle Colonies have one specific demographic difference when compared to the Chesapeake and Southern colonies; what is the difference?
What are families?
Plants grown in the colonies for the purpose of exporting.
What are cash crops?
This group replaced Native American and European indentured laborers in the late 17th century
Who are enslaved Africans?
This colonial region was made up primarily of families, artisans, and merchants.
What is New England
Primary way to produce food on the East Coast.
What is farming?
These factors within the country of Britain primarily influenced the desire of the settlers of New England.
What is enclosure and religious repression?
A branch of Christianity that made up a majority of English Settlers.
What is Protestantism
A revolt in Jamestown, protesting for better protections against native conflict.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This important event primarily showed the existing division between the planter class and poor whites, led to further division and consolidation of power, and led to more aggressive policies toward Native peoples.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
The reason the Powhatan tribe not immediately wipe out the settlers of Jamestown?
What is they desired their trade goods and were on mostly useless land.
Increased profit for England, a maximization of raw resources, captive markets, and their rivals being prevented from profiting off of trade with their colonies represent the effect of this system.
What is Mercantilism?
A 1740s trend of religious revivals throughout the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
The significant slave revolt in 18th-century South Carolina.
What is the Stono Rebellion
Puritans and pilgrims, while often lumped together, had different desires for moving to the New World. This term shows the primary difference between the two groups.
What is separatism?