Settling In
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This New England colony was founded in 1620 by Separatists, later known as Pilgrims.
What is Plymouth?
This trade route carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This term describes Britain’s loose enforcement of trade laws for much of the colonial period.
What is salutary neglect?
This religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional preaching and personal faith.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This document, signed aboard ship in 1620, created a simple government based on majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This region became known for cultural and religious diversity, cereal crops, and export trade.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This British economic theory said colonies should provide raw materials and buy finished goods from the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
These British laws were designed to control colonial trade and keep it tied to Britain.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This preacher became one of the best-known figures of that revival movement in the colonies.
Who is George Whitefield?
This European power focused on building missions, enforcing labor systems, and extending its culture across much of the Americas.
Who is Spain?
This cash crop made the Chesapeake and North Carolina colonies prosperous.
What is tobacco?
This labor system gradually replaced indentured servitude in many southern colonies.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This 1680 uprising in present-day New Mexico was led by Native people resisting Spanish religious and cultural oppression.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This intellectual movement emphasized reason, natural rights, and the social contract.
What is the Enlightenment?
Unlike the French and Dutch, the British generally sent large numbers of these, intending to build permanent communities in North America.
What are settlers or colonists?
This region’s economy depended on long growing seasons, staple crops, and large numbers of enslaved Africans.
What are the southern Atlantic colonies and the British West Indies?
This 1676 uprising helped convince wealthy planters to rely more heavily on enslaved African labor.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This conflict, also known as King Philip’s War, broke out after years of New England expansion into Native land.
What is Metacom’s War?
This idea, spread by Enlightenment thinkers, held that people possessed rights that governments should not violate.
Unlike many early Chesapeake settlers, colonists in this region often migrated in family groups to build a religious community.
What is New England?
Because of rocky soil and long winters, this region developed small towns, family farms, and a mixed economy instead of plantation agriculture.
What is New England?
This set of laws, first associated with Barbados and later copied elsewhere, gave slaveholders sweeping control over enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
This practice of forcing colonists into naval service became one source of resentment toward British imperial authority.
What is impressment?
This term describes the increasing resemblance of colonial society and institutions to English models over time.
What is Anglicization?