Native American Interactions
This European community's settlers most categorically rejected North American Indian culture and worldviews
Puritans
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
Bacon’s Rebellion
This was the first representative assembly in North America, created in Virginia (1619).
House of Burgesses
He claimed that the Puritans should, “build a city upon a hill,” and became governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
John Winthrop
In 1649, this became the first law granting a degree of religious toleration in the colonies.
Maryland Act of Toleration
French and Dutch colonial relationships with American Indians were based primarily on trade alliance for this good
Furs
This was the first major slave rebellion in the South that resulted in further restrictions on slaves.
Stono Rebellion
This type of meeting became a “seed of democracy” in early New England.
Town Hall Meetings
This colonial region was the most ethnically, religiously, and demographically diverse
Middle
A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder invests some money in the company and, in turn, receives a share of the company's profits.
Joint stock company.
This American Indian confederation, reaching from the St. Lawrence Valley to the eastern Great Lakes, successfully resisted both native and colonial challenges during the 18th century
the Iroquois
Used to attract settlers to Virginia and to address the labor shortages on the many plantations.
Headright System
This 1736 court case set a trend for more freedom of the press in the colonies.
John Peter Zenger Trial
The diversified economy of this region relied primarily on fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
New England
During the era before the French and Indian War, this resulted in the colonies being left alone to develop their own economic and political institutions.
Salutary Neglect
Families could be broken up at any time so slaves relied on these kinship networks.
"Surrogate Families"
The unique idea of owning humans as property, able to be bought, sold, given away, and/or inherited, that developed in the Americas.
Chattel Slavery
Although technically not a constitution, this was a landmark agreement among Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims for majority rule.
Mayflower Compact
The primary staple crops produced in this region included wheat, barley, and oats.
Middle colonies
A series of mercantilist acts that specified that trade of goods to and from the colonies must be carried on English or colonial-built ships operated by Englishmen or colonial crews. These goods must also pass through English ports according to these acts.
Navigation Acts
Outlawed reading and writing, regulated the behaviors of the enslaved behaviors and punishments thus giving great power to those who enslaved others.
Slave Codes
These two conflicts in Virginia foreshadowed the reservation system. The indigenous people involved in these conflicts also helped the colonists of Jamestown survive.
First Powhatan War of 1614 and Second Powhatan War of 1644
This 17th century document was the first written constitution in American colonial history.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This organization led by Edmund Andros was overthrown by New Englanders in 1689 due to its elimination of colonial assemblies. It is also the organization that led what historians refer to as the “1st American Revolution.”
Dominion of New England
This individual openly promoted the idea of an individual personal relationship with God without the guidance of church leaders, and was later expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony. This individual also believed in Antinomianism, the ideas that faith alone, not deeds, is necessary for salvation.
Anne Hutchinson