Colonial Society & Labor Systems
These types of laborers were largely replaced by enslaved Africans in the British colonies.
What are Indentured Servants?
Colonies in British North America were largely created by seizing land from Native Americas near the valleys of these like the Hudson and Potomac.
What are rivers?
This system refers to the 'figure' of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in this period.
What is triangular trade?
The French and Dutch colonies in North Americas mainly existed to trade with Native Americans for this fuzzy commodity.
What is fur?
While most farms in the northern colonies produced food for settlers, plantations in the southern colonies most produced these types of crops for sale.
What are Cash Crops?
'Pilgrims' signed this document on a boat in 1620, creating a precedent for representative government in British North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This refers to economic policies that restricted and regulated colonial trade to extract wealth and maximize self-sufficiency for the home country.
What is Mercantilism?
New plants and animals were introduced to the Americas through this process.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This intelletual movement emphasized reason and natural rights.
These colonies were the 'center' of grain production in British North America.
This term refers to the voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Conflict on the frontiers with Native Americans led some colonists to have this 'beef' with Virginia's colonial governor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
While the plantation economies of the Carolinas and Georgia mainly produced rice and indigo, this bay reigion made mostly tobacco.
What is the Chesapeake?
These type of colonies were under the ownership of joint-stock companies.
What are corporate colonies?
These Acts required that goods be carried by British ships.
What are the navigation acts?
This 1675–1676 war drastically reduced Native American influence in North America.
What is Metacom's War?
This was the first college in North America, founded by Puritans in 1636.
What is Harvard?
In this case, argued by Alexander Hamilton, a jury found that an editor could not be punished for their words if they were accurate.
What is the (John Peter) Zenger trial?
This refers to Britain's unofficial, long-term policy of loosely enforcing parliamentary laws and trade restrictions in the colonies.
This colony, founded by a Quaker, was noted for having mostly peaceful relations with Native Americans as well as freedom of religion.
What is Pennsylvania?