Conflicts and Consequences
The uprising against governor William Berkeley for buying off legislators in the House of Burgesses while simultaneously landless freemen were losing voting rights and tensions with natives were increasing.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
The war named for the tribal leader that believed that the natives were unable to coexist with the English and therefore attacked white settlements, destroying 1/5 of English towns and killing roughly 1000 settlers.
What was Metacom's War?
The first legislative branch of government in the American colonies that consisted of two elected representatives from each of the 13 colonies.
What was the House of Burgesses?
Separatists that arrived on the Mayflower, led by William Bradford.
Who were the Pilgrims?
The trade of animals, crops, diseases, and slaves between Europe and America.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Also known as the 7 Years War, the war between France, Britain, and their allies, that began in America and ended in Europe with the Treaty of Paris.
What was the French and Indian War?
The city in the Mississippi River Valley characterized by the large mounds to be used for leader's homes and ceremonial buildings, center of Mississippian Culture beginning around 1000.
What is Cahokia?
The plan to unite the American colonies under a centralized government and to put an end to French expansion; devised and proposed by Benjamin Franklin.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
A peaceful religious group that gotta long well with natives, settled primarily in Pennsylvania, and believed in spiritual equality for men and women.
Who were the Quakers?
The labor system in which natives worked for the Spanish in exchange for protection.
What are Encomiendas?
The revolt of 30000 natives against 2000 Spanish colonizers as a result of Spanish colonizers overtaking land.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
An intertribal leader who waged a war shortly after the French and Indian War against the British colonizers which ultimately led to the creation of a permanent British army in America.
Who was Pontiac?
The winter of 1609-10 in which many settlers starved to death as a result of not knowing how to handle the harsh winters or live off of the land.
What was the Starving Time?
Non-separatists led by John Winthrop in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, their main goal was to attempt to purify the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
Joint-stock company chartered in 1606 that founded Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
The revolution that resulted from the Spanish Florida governor saying that fugitive slaves would be granted freedom.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
A group of five tribes (Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondogas, Cayugas, and Senecas) that engaged in frequent wars against each other but later came together to form a military alliance.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
The system in which 50 acres of land were offered to anyone who paid their own passage to the for each person brought with them to the colonies.
What was the Headright System?
People who illegally settled on land that they did not buy or rent; many argued that they were entitled to they land because they were on it even before it was available to purchase.
Who were Squatters?
Concept composed by John Locke in "Two Treatises on Government" that was later restated in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Natural Rights? (Life, liberty, and property)
The revolt of 347 Powhatans against the colonists in which 25% of Jamestown colonists were killed.
What was the Indian War of 1622?
What was the Pequot War?
A colony that was created by a grant from English royalty but was ultimately separate from English ruling.
What was a Proprietorship?
A group that juxtaposed traditional spirituality with passionate, energetic sermons. This was conceptualized by George Whitefield, a minister of this type.
Who were the New Lights?
The strategy that allowed American self-governments to grow as royal bureaucrats, concept created by Whig leader who attempted and failed to curb the power of assembly.
What is Salutary Neglect?