Vocabulary (1)
1400-1600; the period of time when European nations began exploring and colonizing the world.
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
Pilgrim.
How did the Powhatan want the Europeans to treat the Natives?
Peacefully - "Why take by force that which you can have by love?"
Approximately how many people were forcibly taken from Africa and through the Middle Passage?
Approximately 12.5 million people
The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people in order to accumulate wealth.
Colonization.
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.
Puritan
Disastrous.
Catastrophic.
etc.
Why would a Portuguese textbook describe the Middle Passage as a "migration?"
To downplay the severity and minimize guilt of the Portuguese.
The action of traveling in or though an unfamiliar area in order to learn more about it.
A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some of the company's profits and debts.
Joint-Stock Company
"Should have destroyed them when he had the chance."
Why was Captain Thomas Phillips upset when an enslaved person died during the Middle Passage?
Because they would lose money (10 pounds each).
An economic system (Europe in the 18th Century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all the nation's commercial interests.
Mercantilism
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years (usually 7-10 years).
Indentured Servants
What did Miantonomo want the Natives to do to the Europeans?
"Kill men, women, and children."
According to Doctor Alexander Falconbridge, why did surgeons agree to serve on these ships?
Their difficult financial situations.
They needed the money.
Areas where groups share similar cultural traits; 3 in Colonial America - New England, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies.
Cultural Regions
The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land (Started in 1618)
Headright System.
Did John Lawson's letter confirm or deny the complaints of the Native Americans?
He confirmed their complaints - "The natives are kinder to us that we are to them."
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
Kidnapped and Enslaved.
Purchased his freedom and learned to write.
Provided one of the only written accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspective of an enslaved person.