Places/Nations
This region of English colonies is particularly well known for its production of Cotton, Indigo, and Tobacco
What are the Southern Colonies
These types of crops were most likely to be grown in the Middle Colonies
What are cereal crops
This group of people (most often) signed a voluntary contract to surrender their rights for a fixed period of time and serve a wealthy master.
What are indentured servants
This agreement to follow equal and just laws was signed by the male members of the first ship to settle in the Massachusetts area in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact
The idea of allowing for the practice of religions other than the dominant majority in a certain area
What is religious tolerance
This man is most well known for directly causing the downfall of the Incan Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro
This was the first town was founded Massachusetts by religious separatists in 1620
What is Plymouth Colony
The name of the original interaction and transplantation of European and Native American fauna, flora, and pathogens
What is the Columbian Exchange
What is the House of Burgesses
This period involves a critical analysis of how we should govern ourselves using rationality and logic rather than appeal to religious or absolutist authority
What is the Enlightenment
This man received a proprietary charter to establish a colony in the Chesapeake Colony region. Notably, he allowed for Catholicism in this colony.
Who is Cecilius Calvert
The name of the religious haven set up by exiled Puritan, Thomas Hooker
What is Connecticut
During the Age of Exploration, French, English, and Dutch were looking for this sea lane that would pass through North America and reach Asia
What is the Northwest Passage
This group of Native Americans established a comprehensive system of irrigation lines to their agricultural fields and built their homes from adobe
Who are the Pueblos
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
The name for a business entity that pools capital from several different investors to fund large projects or expeditions
What are joint stock companies
This man married Pocahontas in exchange for peace with the Powhatan Tribe during the first Anglo-Powhatan War
Who is John Rolfe
This empire was brought down by a small band of conquistadors who formed an alliance with this empire's subjugated tribes in 1521
What is the Aztec Empire
This indigenous society on the present-day mainland United States successfully rebelled against the Spanish Empire and enjoyed independence for a few years.
What is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
This trial helped show that the colonial courts would defend people's right to criticize the government if the statements were factual despite it being against the law on paper.
This woman questioned the moral authority of the Puritan Church to decide moral character solely upon "good works" and was exiled to Rhode Island
Who is Anne Hutchison
This nation was the first to set up trade routes to India by sailing around the entirety of the African continent
What is the Portuguese Empire
This slave uprising in South Carolina in 1739 threatened the stability of the Southern plantation economy
What is the Stono Rebellion
In the Spanish racial caste system, this group of people were considered to the be at the top of the system
Who are the Peninsulares
This polity was created by King James II in order to give him more direct control over several colonies of north of the Chesapeake region
What is the Dominion of New England
The name of the religious revival in the early eighteenth century that revived emotional expressions of religious feeling
What is the Great Awakening
This Dutch noble overthrew the Catholic, King James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Who is William of Orange
This native American city was a part of the Mississippian culture and was notable for being the largest settlement in pre-Columbian North America with 30,000 residents.
What is Cahokia
The name of a conflict between New England settlers and members of the Narragansett tribe in 1637. This war surprised Native Americans because of how brutal the New England colonies were towards its opponent
What is the Pequot War
This is the term used to describe individual families that own a small plot of land primarily for subsistence farming
What are Yeomans
This document in New England is considered the first proper constitution in American legal history
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This term refers to anti-Spanish propaganda that was created in response to the writings of Bartolome de las Casas on Native American slavery
What is the Black Legend
This Native American and his tribe fought against settlers of the New England Confederacy in the 1670's and lost
Who is King Philip or Metacom