Famous People
This woman was banished form Massachusetts Bay Colony for preaching an individual could receive divine truth directly from God.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This war like nation located in modern day New York attacked neighboring tribes and traded guns and goods from the Dutch.
Who are the Iroquois?
The ownership of people.
What is chattel slavery?
The exchange of goods, people, ideas, culture, and disease between the Old World to the New.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Catholic King of Spain who was made extremely wealthy and more powerful from gold and silver mining in the Americas.
Who is Phillip II?
This man attacked New England Colonists in 1675 and waged a war against them for a year till his death.
Who is Metacom?
This man was the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and helped found the colony.
Who is John Winthrop.
Tribute system of taxing Native Americans in goods and labor by Spanish Conquistadors.
What is the encomienda system, or encomiendas?
State assisted manufacturing and trade in which exports outnumbered imports.
What is mercantilism?
Immigrants to the Colonies that labored for four or five years for their freedom.
Who were indentured servants?
This man was granted the Colony of Maryland, which became a haven for Catholics in the New World.
Who is Cecilius Calvert, or Lord Baltimore.
Colonies built around models instituted by the English, Dutch, and French.
What are Neo-European Colonies?
The practice of granting 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage to a new immigrant or laborer to the colony.
What is the headright system?
Main institution of local governance in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that allowed men to vote on local issues.
What are town meetings?
Main crop in Virginia and Maryland Colonies that was also very labor intensive.
What is tobacco?
This man founded Rhode Island as a colony of religious tolerance.
Who is Roger Williams?
A war fought between New England Colonies and Native Americans, that ended in the slaughter of over 500 Native American men, women, and children.
What was the Puritan-Pequot War?
Religious Separatists that left the Church of England and came to the New World.
Who are Pilgrims?
Protestants that did not want to separate from the Church of England but did want to reform it.
Who are Puritans?
Founded by the Dutch in what is now New York, it was originally a fur trading settlement and later fell to the English.
What is New Netherlands?
This sailor was famous for attacking Spanish Ships in the Pacific, capturing two Spanish ships, and completing the English circumnavigation of the globe.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
This rebellion challenged the power of landed elites in Virginia, and ushered in an era of the end of indentured servitude and greater dependence on slave labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The belief that God only saved a select few number of people; the underpinnings of Calvinism.
What is predestination?
A commercial agreement that allows investors to pool their money sharing in profits and losses.
What is a joint-stock corporation?
First Colonial representative form of government developed by the Virginia Company.
What is the House of Burgesses?