01 Economic Development & Labor
02 Expansion & Conflict
03 Colonial Society & Culture
04 Seeds of Self-Government
Natives, Exploration &
Early Colonization
Early Colonization
100
Why did the Virginia Company grant a charter for Jamestown?
The joint-stock company was interested in finding gold in the Virginia area initially.
100
What was the difference in the motivations of the 3 different colonial regions?
New England - Mostly religious with some trade
Middle Atlantic - Mixed with religion and farming
Southern - Cash cropping (tobacco)
100
Puritans and Pilgrims had what in common?
Both settled in modern-day Massachusetts and both came for religious freedom.
100
What were 3 items that made colonists "feel independent"?
Distance from England (3,000 miles), locally elected Governors, local lawmakers and the English did not enforce all laws.
100
What item was the focus of the Dutch and French colonization?
200
What accounted for the Chesapeake region quickly becoming a stratified society (aristocracy, middle and lower classes)?
Indentured servants worked for free therefore making the employers doubly wealthy.
200
What was a key difference in the average New England immigrant and Virginia immigrant?
Virginia was mostly young, single males looking for a fresh start. New England was mostly families looking for religious freedom.
200
What was John Winthrop's goal for Massachusetts' Bay Colony?
To be a beacon of success and live as close to the word of the Bible as possible. He was very strict and intolerant of outside ideas.
200
What signs of democracy existed in Pennsylvania?
Religious and political freedom, freedom of press, trial by jury and freedom of speech were all important to Williams Penn.
200
How was native housing affected by economic activities?
If natives were sedentary and farmed they had larger, more permanent structures.
On the other hand, if they were nomadic hunter-gatherers, they had tent-like houses to move quickly.
300
What are the 3 colonial regions of the English colonies?
Southern, Middle (Mid Atlantic), New England
300
How did King Philip's War represent a massive change in Native American geography?
New England no longer has any native resistance after this conflict and immigrants flood into the region.
300
What do the colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire have in common?
All were created by Puritan dissent and were kicked out due to differing voices.
300
John Winthrop is significant to the Puritans in what way?
Wintrop served as the theocratic leader of Massachusetts Bay and was extremely strict and intolerant of outside ideas. He banished any dissenters to the frontier.
300
Explain 1 difference in regional development of economic systems.
New England - poor soil, large families, religious-orientation and focused on trade, shipbuilding and fishing.
Middle Colonies - mixed social and economic systems. Some farming (corn, wheat, oats), trade, and religious colonies.
Southern - all focused on tobacco production
400
What event led to the reliance on African enslaved people as a labor source in the colonies?
Bacon's Rebellion highlighted the instability of large populations of landless farmers (former indentured servants).
400
When will the first African slaves arrive in the colonies to work on tobacco plantations?
1619
400
The Salem Witch Trials was really about what issue?
Social differences between young, poorer women and richer, older women. It was an age-old tale of jealousy and name calling.
400
What significance did the House of Burgesses have?
It was the first representative law making body in America (1619)
400
Give one example of early signs of democracy in the colonies.
Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Town Meetings, House of Burgesses
500
Explain mercantilism.
Colonies serve the Mother Country by providing resources which are processed and sold. These exports lead to the accumulation of gold and silver making the Mother Country extremely wealthy.
500
What resource became strained between natives, the Dutch and English leading to the Pequot War?
Beaver pelts
500
George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards are most closely associated with what movement?
Great Awakening
500
Explain Salutary Neglect.
It was an English policy from the mid-1600s to mid-1700s where England did not enforce all trade and Navigation Acts thus making the colonies feel more independent.
500
Highlight some differences between European countries' treatment of natives in the New World.
French and Dutch - very small populations with positive, trade-oriented relationships with surrounding tribes.
English - larger populations of families that tended to have mostly positive trade interactions with natives.
Spanish - by far the most ruthless to the natives that focused on conversion, conquering, and acquiring riches.