Colonial Regions
This Middle Colony became known for religious toleration and its Quaker population.
What is Pennsylvania?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas, Europe, and Africa following Columbus's voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These workers agreed to work for a set period of time in exchange for passage to America, food, and shelter.
Who are indentured servants?
This document established a tradition of self-government among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This economic system held that colonies existed primarily to benefit the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
The short growing season and rocky soil of this region led to an economy based less on plantation agriculture and more on commerce, fishing, shipbuilding, and small-scale farming.
What is New England?
This European power generally developed the strongest economic partnerships with Native Americans because its North American economy relied heavily on trade rather than agricultural settlement.
Who are the French?
This year is often identified as the beginning of the development of African slavery in England's North American colonies.
What is Jamestown, 1619?
This Virginia representative assembly was established in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This term describes the network that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas and included the transportation of enslaved Africans.
What is Triangular Trade?
Unlike New England, where small farms and commerce were common, this region developed large plantations and relied heavily on enslaved labor.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This Spanish labor system granted colonists control over Native American labor and contributed to exploitation and population decline.
What is encomienda?
This 1676 Virginia uprising exposed tensions between wealthy planters and poorer colonists and contributed to changes in Virginia's labor system.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This Puritan leader and governor of Massachusetts Bay famously argued that the colony should serve as a "city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
These two cash crops became important in the southern plantation economies that depended heavily on enslaved African labor. (Modeled after sugar plantations)
What are rice and indigo?
The Dutch colony of New Netherland was more commercially oriented and ethnically diverse than many English colonies largely because its primary purpose was this.
What is trade and profit?
This Native American group controlled a strategically important region between French and English settlements and frequently played European powers against one another.
Who are the Iroquois?
This term describes the large-scale agricultural estates of the Caribbean and American South that produced cash crops using predominantly enslaved labor.
What are plantations?
This Puritan dissenter was banished from Massachusetts Bay and founded Rhode Island, where he promoted religious liberty.
Who is Roger Williams?
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
Which statement best explains why the French and Spanish generally developed different relationships with Native Americans than the English?
A. French and Spanish colonists did not want to acquire land.
B. French and Spanish colonies were primarily dependent on agriculture.
C. French and Spanish colonization often depended more heavily on Native American alliances, trade, and conversion.
D. English colonists were prohibited from trading with Native Americans.
What is "C"?
This Wampanoag leader's friendly relationship with English colonists took a turn for the worse and led to a violent uprising in the New England colony in 1675.
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
England's Caribbean colonies became extraordinarily profitable by producing this crop, while their brutal plantation system helped establish a model later adopted in parts of British North America.
What is sugar?
Britain's policy of loosely enforcing its colonial regulations allowed the colonies to develop significant economic and political independence.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Because of its fertile soil, moderate climate, and abundant grain production, and commerical farming, this colonial region became known by this nickname.
What is the Breadbasket?