Spanish Colonization
Who "discovered" America? What year?
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492
This lost colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh and James White
Roanoke
Who first settled in modern day Massachusetts?
Pilgrims (Separatists)
Name TWO of the Middle colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
What kind of crop is sold for money and not food? Give an example.
Cash crop; i.e. tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar, indigo
By the time of the Great Awakening, the state of religion in the colonies could be considered what?
Poor, bad, low
The Jamestown settlers learned how to make what crop from the local natives?
Tobacco
A conquistador conquered a large Native American empire in modern-day Mexico.
What was the name of the conquistador and the Native empire?
Hernan Cortez
Aztec
First permanent British colony in the New World
Jamestown
What kind of geography (soil, terrain) did this region have?
Coasts, thin stony soil, plenty of trees
What types of jobs were found here?
Farming (breadbasket), skilled labor + craftsmanship, early industry
What is the type of worker is like a slave but did have limited right as well as the opportunity to eventually be considered free?
Indentured servant
During the Great Awakening, people were encouraged to seek and know God on their own instead of relying on who?
Ministers, pastors, clergy
This was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who married John Rolfe and supposedly saved John Smith's life.
Pocahontas
System of labor utilized by the Spanish to force Native Americans to work in mines or on large plantations
Encomienda System
What geographical problems did Jamestown face?
(Think location, animals, and water quality)
Swamp, marshes, mosquitoes, & salty water
Name TWO dissidents who got in trouble with Puritan leaders and were forced to leave Massachusetts
Roger Williams + Anne Hutchinson
Name ONE element of New England colonies that could also be found in the Middle Colonies.
Name ONE element of Southern colonies that could also be found in the Middle Colonies.
NE: Shipbuilding/Lumbering/Trade
S: Plantations/Slavery
Southern plantation slaves came from where?
Africa or W. Africa
The Great Awakening was especially popular among what groups of people?
Women, poor, slaves, servants
This was a uprising led by small farmers and white settlers in Virginia's western frontier. They were responding to attacks from Native Americans and political favoritism toward plantation owners.
Bacon's Rebellion
This Spanish priest protested the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish
What was the name of the document that would govern the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
Why did the Puritans come to America?
Seeking religious freedom/escaping persecution
The Dutch originally settled in New York to trade what with the American Indians?
Furs
What was the governing body created to make laws and taxes in Virginia
Virginia House of Burgesses
What two, broad factions appeared as a response to the Great Awakening?
(Hint: One embraced the new changes from the revival. The other kept to the old ways.)
New Lights
Old Lights
This violent conflict was in response to encroachments made by European settlers on Native American lands. Led to the New England colonies forming a military alliance for protection called the New England Confederation
Pequot War
Rebellion of Native Americans Pueblo Indians in modern day New Mexico against local priests and Mission system.
Pope's Rebellion, 1680
The Pilgrims went to the New World for religious freedom. What Protestant sect did they belong to?
Separatists
Who could vote in the Massachusetts colony?
Male, church members who owned land
The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, created a colony to protect what religious group?
Quakers
What religious group initially settled in Maryland?
Roman Catholics or Catholics
This itinerant preacher upset local clergymen, but his outdoor sermons were so moving that he even captivated the attentions of slaves, Native Americans, & religious skeptic Ben Franklin.
George Whitefield
This tribe had mixed relations with the Jamestown settlers which eventually led to two short wars, one in 1609-1614 and the other in 1622-1626.
(There are two acceptable answers, but just need one.)
Powhatans
Algonquins