These people had a land lord pay for their passage to the new world and worked the land to pay back the loan.
What are indentured servants?
100
The mass cultivation of this staple crop allowed empires to development in Central America.
What is Maize?
100
This was the name of the trade that saw raw materials, rum, and slaves move from Africa to the colonies to England.
What is Triangular Trade?
100
This document set the foundation for the formation of self government in the Colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
This concepts as a religious group alienated them from many other religious groups.
What is the idea of predestination?
200
This colonial area was characterized by rocky soil and lots of lumber for ships.
What are the New England colonies?
200
This area's Indians were able to benefit from the abundant Bison in order to create a nomadic society.
What is the Great Plains?
200
The colony of Maryland was specifically set up as a safe haven for this religious group.
Who are the Catholics?
200
These acts were designed to prevent trade with the West Indies from the Colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
200
This idea towards daily life and work is one of the positive things that the Puritans left to the Colonies.
What is the Puritan work ethic?
300
The purpose of colonization for this group was profits for fur and converting some natives to Chirstianity.
Who are the French?
300
This was the name of the Spanish communities that enslaves the local population while also trying to convert to Catholicism.
What is the encomienda system?
300
This system gave land owners 50 acres of land if they agreed to pay for passage of indentured servants to work the land.
What is the headright system?
300
This is the concept that England did not enforce laws or controls in the colonies before the French and Indian War.
What is Salutary Neglect?
300
One of the strongest ideas the Puritans brought to the New England area required the establishment of these for any village over 50 people.
What are schools?
400
This revolt was in response to slave conditions and the Spanish insistence on converting everyone to Catholicism.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
400
This societal concept was based on the idea of a step system with lords being at the top of the pyramid.
What is Feudalism?
400
The Maryland Act guaranteed religious freedoms to Christian religions.
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
400
This was a reaction in Virginia by the Scots-Irish towards Governor Berkley's lenient policies towards the Indians.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
The Puritans in order to increase membership allowed for Baptism but not full church membership.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
500
This is the concept that the colonies should provide an economic boost to the mother country.
What is the Mercantilism economic philosophy?
500
By allowing many colonial societies this concept, it allowed for the foundation of the revolution to form when Britain tried to regain political control of the colonies.
What is political autonomy?
500
Other than religion, this was another huge reason that many people came to the colonies.
What is massive unemployment?
500
This was a massive slave revolt in South Carolina which ultimately led to harsher restrictions on slaves.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
500
Ultimately, the Puritans felt the need to leave England because they couldn't reform this church.