Empires in the Americas
Spanish system of utilizing indigenous peoples in their colonies to mine and farm for valuable resources.
Encomienda system
A strand of this lucrative cash crop was discovered by John Rolphe and dominated the Chesapeake region?
Tobacco
This colonial region was based in Puritanism and practiced local democracy through church-dominated town meetings.
New England
The New Englanders resistance to various British trade policies led to the consolidation of their colonies into this entity.
Dominion of New England
This religious movement coincided with the Enlightenment in the colonies and served as a unifying force.
The Great Awakening
The Dutch dominated transatlantic trade by the 1700s, but they only created one colony in North America, in this present-day city.
New York
This was the first permanent settlement of the British Empire in North America, and was originally a corporate colony.
Jamestown
This colony's representative assembly was the House of Burgesses, established in 1619.
Virginia
This 1675 uprising of Wampanoag Indians against Puritan settlers was largely over British encroachment on their lands.
King Philip's War/Metacom's War
These laws were met with resistance in the colonies because it hurt their pockets, and also their sense of Republicanism: no taxation without representation.
Navigation Acts.
The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 created a line of demarcation in the Americas between these two countries.
Portugal and Spain
This colony was settled in 1620 by Pilgrims seeking new lands to farm and practice their religion freely.
Plymouth Bay
This 16th century religious movement in Europe dramatically affected the settlement of the British colonies.
Protestant Reformation
This 1676 event was a major reason the Chesapeake and southern colonies moved from indentured servitude to African slavery
Bacon's Rebellion
This soft-coup the ended absolute monarchy in England in 1688, and led to more parliamentary powers through the Declaration of Rights.
The Glorious Revolution
This empire settled around the Great Lakes region and then established fur-trading posts throughout North America.
France
This colony mirrored the social and political structure of the British plantation colonies in the Caribbean, with rigid slave and race codes in place.
South Carolina
This first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony told his fellow Puritans that theirs would be a "city upon a hill."
John Winthrop
Indigenous resistance to Spanish oppression and forced conversion in 1680 by Pope and his people led to major change in how the Spanish dealt with the natives.
Pueblo Revolt
This group founded in 1743 included Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton-- all founding fathers influenced by John Locke's writings.
American Philosophical Society
Peninsulares, mestisos, mullatos were all rungs in THIS social ladder created in the Spanish colonies.
Casta System
This region was known as the "breadbasket" of the British colonies for its growth of cereal crops, wheat and grain.
Middle Colonies.
This 1649 law passed in Maryland colony was meant to protect Catholics from discrimination, and in doing so protected all Christians to practice their faith freely.
Maryland Toleration Act
This was largest slave revolt in the Americas to that time, and resulted in restricting slaves' freedoms and placed a hold on slave imports to South Carolina.
Stono Rebellion (1739)
This Irish preacher travelled the British colonies leading sermons, mass conversions and baptisms to try to reignite religiosity in an increasingly logical, science-based world.
George Whitefield