Empires
Colonies
Key Terms
People
Wars and Rebellions
100

This Empire started participating in Indian Ocean Maritime trade and bringing those Asian goods to Europe, they also advanced ships designs and improved navigational instruments.

Portuguese

100

The establishment of this colony would act as a buffer between the Spanish and the French.

Georgia

100

Adoption of English customs and traditions.

Anglicization

100

His older brother was the chief of the Native Americans that surrounded Jamestown. When his older brother died he became chief.

Chief Opechancanough

100

(1675-1676) Fought between the New England settlers and the region's Native Americans. The settlers eventually won but both sides had high casualties.

Metacom’s War

200

This European Empire conquered a majority of the South Americas, then in the late 1400s they believed by promoting catholicism it would unify the country.



Spain

200

Cecilius Calvert planned to create this colony as a refuge of religious toleration. 



Maryland

200

The mass migration of Puritans from Europe to New England during the 1620s through the 1630s.  

Puritan Migration

200

He conquered the Incan Empire and secured Spain an access to a large amount of silver.

Francisco Pizarro

200

1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against Spanish forces in New Mexico, this leads to the Spaniards' temporary retreat from New Mexico. 

Pueblo revolt 

300

European Empire that controlled the land around the Hudson river in the 1700's.

Dutch

300

This colony was the first English colony with predominantly African American population.

Barbados

300

Radical English Protestants who hoped to reform the Church of England. 

Puritans 

300

This parliamentary leader came to power as the English Civil War began to end. 

Oliver Cromwell

300

Uprising in Virginia, many of these people were former indentured servants were upset by the Virginia unwillingness to protect the settlers from the Native Americans.

Bacons Rebellion

400

European power attempted to lure elite settlers to its colonies, enticing them with ownership of huge tracts of land along the Hudson River called patroonships, where they had to bring at least 50 other settlers to live.

Dutch or Netherlands

400

These two English colonies that, at the time of their founding, had the most religious toleration.

Rhode Island and Pennsylvania

400

Immigrants who borrowed money from shipping agents to cover the costs of transport to America, loans were repaid, or "redeemed" by colonial employers. 

redemptioners 

400

This man argued that god decided at the beginning of time who was saved and who was damned, his ideas are called predestination. 

John Calvin

400

(1689) Class revolt in New York leb by a merchant. Urban artisans and landless renters rebelled against new taxes and central rule.

Leisler's Rebellion 

500

Fur trade, explored especially in the interior of the colony.

French

500

The Headright system mainly used in which three colonies.

Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina

500

The forces enlistment of civilians into the army or the navy. 

impressment

500

divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived

King Henry VIII

500

1739 uprising by enslaved Africans and Americans in South Carolina. 

Stono Rebellion