Colonial Regions
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This economic system held that colonies should benefit the mother country through controlled trade.
What is mercantilism?
This 1643 alliance joined several New England colonies for mutual defense.
What is the New England Confederation?
These workers agreed to labor for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the colonies.
What are indentured servants?
This religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized emotional preaching and personal faith.
What is the Great Awakening?
These colonies were shaped by shipbuilding, small farming, town life, and Puritan influence.
What is New England?
These laws were passed by England to regulate colonial trade and ensure it benefited the empire.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1675–1676 conflict was one of the bloodiest wars between New England colonists and Native Americans.
What is King Philip’s War?
This labor system grew in part because Native Americans could escape too easily and indentured labor was insufficient.
What is African slavery?
This preacher was famous for fiery sermons such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This colonial region became known for tobacco, plantation agriculture, and dispersed settlement patterns.
What is the Chesapeake?
This trade network linked New England, Africa, and the Caribbean in exchanges involving rum, slaves, and molasses.
What is the triangular trade?
This uprising in 1676 exposed tensions in Virginia between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 1739 rebellion in South Carolina was a major slave uprising in the colonial period.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced colonial ideas about government, natural rights, and consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
These colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware and were marked by ethnic and religious diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This 1733 law placed duties on molasses from non-British colonies.
What is the Molasses Act?
This 1680 revolt drove the Spanish out of New Mexico for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
In the Southern colonies, this cash crop created a strong demand for labor.
What is tobacco?
This 1735 court case became an important victory for freedom of the press in the colonies.
What is the John Peter Zenger case?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This phrase describes Britain’s loose enforcement of trade regulations before 1763.
What is salutary neglect?
Native groups often did this in order to protect their interests in conflicts involving rival European powers.
What is form alliances with one European group against another?
Over time, colonial laws made slavery this: permanent, inheritable, and based on this concept.
What is race?
This colonial figure represented the Enlightenment spirit through writing, science, and practical invention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?