Carolinas & Chesapeake
Indentured servants were people who signed a contract of indenture requiring them to work for their Chesapeake masters for an average of 5 to 7 years, in return for the cost of the Atlantic crossing. What did they often receive after their indenture ended?
Land!
What is the word for the group of previously enslaved Africans who lived in the mountains after running away from plantations?
Maroons
The Iroquios's origin myth described the world on the back of this creature?
What rivaling empire was Richard Hakluyt particularly concerned about when he made the case for English colonization to the Queen of England?
Spain
What is the name of the transatlantic exchange of people, plants, animals, commodities, and microbes between the Old and New Worlds?
The Columbian Exchange
In 1739, the repression of this rebellion in South Carolina ushered in the category of "master" as a lived experience, not just an economic concept.
Stono Rebellion
Immigrants from which Caribbean island established "Carolina" as a new colony?
Barbados
What do historians call the movement of 21,000 Puritans from England to New England in the 1630s?
The Great Migration
What was the (pre-1763) British imperial policy toward North American colonists, before the imperial clashes of the late18th century?
Salutary neglect
These two major conflicts occurred both occurred during 1676 and involved questions about native relations
What were the primary cash crops for these two regions? The Chesapeake was known for X and the Carolinas were known for Y. (you must get both X and Y right for the points!)
tobacco and rice
In lecture, Professor Winterer called these three islands in the Caribbean "the Big Three for the British".
Barbados, Antigua, and Jamaica
This new genre of writing emerged in New England with the Puritans and focused heavily on the hardships of earthly life. What is the name of the genre?
Jeremiad
Which "New Light" British evangelist did Professor Winterer call the Kim Kardashian of the 18th century British Atlantic who traversed all the British North American colonies? An extra 50 points if you recall the name of the 1740s movement he is associated with.
George Whitefield, The Great Awakening
What plants were included in the Three Sisters grouping made famous by indigenous agriculture practices?
Squash, Beans, and Maize (corn)
These three parties were involved in conflict in 1676 in Virginia, resulting in the burning down of Jamestown.
Royal Governor William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, and native groups (Susquehannock, Algonquin)
What two words starting with "s" did the West Indies provide to the American colonies as part of the so-called triangular trade?
slaves and sugar
The rise of what kind of establishment at the end of the 1600s led to the rise of the public sphere and civil society in British North America, particularly in the Northern colonies? Professor Winterer believed this space was a crucial ingredient for the rise of republican government and the American Revolution.
The Coffeehouse
In which overseas territory did the British establish their first plantations before the colonization of the Americas?
Ireland
These Native Americans allied with the French against the British and the Iroquois Confederacy in the mid-18th century (French and Indian War, 1754-63)?
The Huron
This Virginia law in 1662 transformed the slave trade. What was it? What did it do?
"Partus Sequitur Ventrem" - "that which is brought forth follows the belly (womb)" - hereditary enslavement
This type of financial agreement and document was most often used in the Caribbean to settle debts between traders in the British Isles, the Caribbean, and the British North American colonies
Bills of Exchange
This man dreamed of a city upon a hill in what year? You must get the year right and the man's full name.
John Winthrop (1630)
What was the name of the series of alliances and treaties between the English and the Iroquois Confederacy in the 17th century?
The Covenant Chain
What are 3 of the 5 native groups included in the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Mohawks, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Oneida and the Seneca.