New World Beginnings
Planting of English America
Settling the Northern Colonies
American Life in the 17th Century
Vocabulary
100
The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the American & Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade is known as:
What is THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
100
First permanent English colony in North America was:
What is JAMESTOWN
100
Indian policy in this colony can be best described as most fair.
What is Pennsylvania
100
Considered the most religious tolerant colony for catholics.
What is MARYLAND
100
These laws prohibited "ungodly revelers" including stage plays, playing cards, dice, games, & excessive hilarity.
What is Blue Laws
200
Number 1 reason for population decline of American Indians when Europeans arrived.
What is Disease
200
What nation did the British acquire New York from?
What is the NETHERLANDS (DUTCH)
200
What state was the best advertised?
What is Pennsylvania
200
The _____ trials were the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts.
What is Salem witchcraft
200
This forerunner of the modern corporation enabled a considerable number of investors, called "adventurers" to pool their capital together to limit risk.
What is a JOINT STOCK COMPANY
300
Which European empire's threatening expeditions and settlements in the South and West prompted Spain to establish a few settlement in Texas beginning in 1716?
What is FRANCE
300
. Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, and (D) Maryland. a. A, C, B, D b. B, D, C, A c. C, D, B, A d. D, C, B, A e. C, B, A, D
What is C
300
One of the traits that made this group unpopular in England was their refusal to do military service.
What is QUAKER
300
The ____ allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.
What is Half-Way Covenant
300
A person who voluntary works for a set period of time (rougly 7 years) for free passage to the new world.
What is an Indentured Servant
400
Which of the following is the false concept, which held that the Spanish conquerors merely tortured and butchered the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind? a. Dark Myth b. European Legend c. Black Legend d. Spanish Myth e. Tragic Death
What is C
400
The Dominican Friar ___ is best known for speaking out against the horrors of the encomienda system on Native Americans.
What is Bartolomé de Las Casas
400
Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of (A) New York, (B) Massachusetts Bay, (C) Pennsylvania, and (D) Plymouth. a. C, B, A, D b. B, D, C, A c. A, C, D, B d. D, B, A, C e. A, C, B, D
What is D
400
What industry was New England's economy most depended heavily on?
What is fishing, shipbuilding, or commerce. (any 1 for the points)
400
This slave rebellion in 1739 in South Carolina consisted of more than 50 resentful slaves who tried to march to Spanish Florida only to be stopped by the local militia.
What is the STONE REBELLION
500
The institution of ____ allowed the European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
What is encomienda
500
The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
What is Handsome Lake.
500
Who led the Dutch city of New Amsterdam before being handed a petition from the merchants when the British arrived to take the city & had to give it up without a fight?
Who is Peter Stuyvesant
500
This rebellion, an ill-starred & bloody insurgence rocked New York City from 1689-1691 between lordly landholders & aspiring merchants.
What is Leisler's Rebellion
500
This system in both Virginia & Maryland encouraged the important of servant workers.
What is the Head-right System