Early Colonization
This nation's colonies focused on agriculture and trade with many people coming to the colonies for opportunity and were standoffish with Native Americans.
What is England/Great Britain?
The spread of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Founded mostly Puritans, these colonies tended to be close-knit communities, whose economy thrived off fishing, timber, the fur trade, and shipping.
What are the New England Colonies?
Time period that focused on reason, knowledge, and new ideas about the nature and purpose of government.
What is the Enlightenment?
Spanish Dominican Friar who pled the case of Native Americans in his very influential Brief History of the Conquest of the Americas.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This nation sought tight control over the colonies, exploiting it for gold and silver, and pressuring indigenous people to convert to Catholicism.
What is Spain?
Spanish system of granting land to colonists in the New World. This system exploited indigenous people for their resources and labor.
What is the Encomienda System?
This "breadbasket" region was diverse religiously and saw the most immigrants from Europe due to Quaker tolerance.
What are the Middle Colonies?
What is the First Great Awakening?
He brought the first tobacco seeds to Jamestown, changing its trajectory from a doom-town to a boomtown.
Who is John Rolfe?
This nation had fewer inhabitants than other countries; focused on alliances, intermarriage with Native Americans, and the fur trade.
What is France?
People who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to America.
Who are indentured servants?
This colony relied on indentured servants initially for its tobacco farming but shifted to importing West African slaves after Bacon's Rebellion.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The first document promoting responsible, self- government written and signed by men aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He established the colony of Pennsylvania as safe space for Quakers as well as other religions.
Who is William Penn?
Two of the three religious dissenter sects, who left Great Britain, for religious freedom in the colonies.
Who are the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers?
This system focuses on accumulating gold and silver for the mother country by emphasizing exports and limiting imports with tariffs.
This location became sort of a transplant colony for many of Britain's wealthy, planter class coming from the British West Indies.
What is South Carolina?
Early example of American self-governance in the form of a bicameral legislature, established by a general assembly in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
She was exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for being outspoken and having heretical beliefs, according to the laws of the Puritans.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The Virginia Company and the Dutch West India Company are two examples of this type of company, that played a role in early colonization.
What is a joint-stock company?
A land grant system used in colonial America where settlers were given land (usually 50 acres) and additional land for every other settler, whose passage they sponsored.
This Chesapeake colony, named for Queen Mary of England, was established originally as a sanctuary for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Written in Hartford, this document is considered to be the first constitution in the American colonies.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
One of two names given to this indigenous chief of the Wampanoags, who led a Native American alliance of tribes in attacks on the settlers in New England.
Who is Metacom or King Philip?