European Colonization
Columbus "discovered America" in this year
What is 1492
This is the name of the religious revival movement that swept across the 13 colonies in the 1740's (for an extra 100 points: What is the name of the famous preacher from the movement?)
What is the Great Awakening (bonus points: Who is George Whitefield)
This was Virginia's main export. It was a very labor intensive crop so the colony required large amounts of indentured servants (and later slaves) to work on their planations.
What is tobacco
Name 3 motivations for European colonization.
God, Gold, Glory, Crusades, Protestant Reformation, etc.
This is the name of the labor system the Spanish used to subjugate Native Americans
What is the Encomienda System
This is the name of an invisible line drawn by the Pope that divided the world between Spanish and Portuguese for the sake of colonization.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This colony was founded as a Catholic safehaven
What is Maryland?
When we say New England had a mixed economy we mean what?
They had some agriculture (mostly small, local farms) as well as commerce (lots of merchants, shipbuiliding, fishing, lumber exports, trade, etc.)
This complex economic system says that a mother country should export more than it imports, build up its gold/silver reserves, and mainly produce manufactured goods instead of raw resources (which should be given to the mother country by its colonies)
What is Mercantilism?
The name given to the exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange
This country settled primarily in modern day Brazil and many other parts of South America, establishing one of the greatest slave societies in the world
What is Portugal
Pennsylvania was founded by what religious group?
What is the Quakers (or Society of Friends)
This colonial region is known as the breadbasket because of the large amount of cereal and grains grown here.
What are the middle colonies?
Give 2 examples of Native American violent resistance to European colonizers and state where these instances occured (what colony/region).
Powhatan Wars in Virginia, King Philip's War in New England, Pueblo Revolt in Southwest (New Mexico)
This 1588 event in Europe led to a decline in Spanish colonization and boosted English nationalism spurring individuals' desires to come over to the New World and establish British colonies.
What is the Spanish Armada
This country's goal was not to colonize North America but rather to establish outposts in order to trade fur and convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
What is France
This Puritan leader wrote "A Model on Christian Charity" and declared MA Bay Colony to be a "City upon a Hill" that everyone would look up to.
Who is John Winthrop
What was the most diverse of the 13 colonies and why?
Pennsylvania because it was founded by Quakers who believed in religious tolerance so it attracted many different European groups.
How does the Black Legend relate to Spanish colonization?
Bartholome de las Cases' critique of the encomienda system gave rise to an even greater dramatization of Spanish treatment of natives by English & Dutch
This incentive system attempted to get more people to the colonies by offering landowners 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival. It ended up encouraging indentured servitude
What is the Headright System
Name 2 differences between Spanish and English colonization.
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This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was banished for declaring that there needs to be a separation of church and state.
Providence, Rhode Island
Explain how each of the colonial regions were involved in slavery.
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What is a direct effect of Bacon's Rebellion?
Decreased dependence on indentured servants and increase in slavery in colonies.
English law passed in the 1650's that required certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors
What are the Navigation Acts