Pre-European Nations
This crop allowed communities in the Americas to flourish
What is corn/maize?
This economic theory's goal is to decrease imports while expanding exports.
What is Mercantilism?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
What are the Middle Colonies?
George Whitefield was a key member of this
What was the (first) Great Awakening?
Part of the triangle trade: the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade
What was the Middle Passage?
What are Eastern Woodland Indians?
This Spanish Clergyman argued against the paternalistic treatment of natives by the Spanish
Who was Bartolomé de las Casas?
This religious group found safety in the colony of Pennsylvania
Who were the Quakers?
Writer of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
1692 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a Puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress related to encroaching settlers without Puritanical viewpoints (emphasized dangers of religious extremism)
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
The Northeast Indian Culture group practiced these two methods of survival
What is hunting and farming?
This is the reason why New Amsterdam was founded.
Why did the Dutch want to protect fur trade operations?
Due to the lack of _________ ___________, Virginia began the importation of African slaves
Who are skilled farmers/workers?
Most diverse region of the 13 colonies
What were the Middle Colonies?
A system developed by the Spanish that incorporated, and carefully defined the status of, the diverse population of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in their empire
What is the Casta System?
What is a Pueblo?
This is the year that Santa Fe, New Mexico was founded
When was 1610?
The Navigation Acts were ultimately unsuccessful because of this.
Decades of Salutary Neglect
Caused gaps in the South's social structure to widen
What is the extension of slavery?
Alliance of Native Americans tribes living in the region of the initial Virginia settlement. The leader of this alliance tried to live in peace with the English settlers when they arrived in 1607 and even helped the colonists learn how to farm
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
This revolt took place in 1680
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
Signed in 1494
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This event displayed an example of increasing class divide between wealthier and poorer colonists
What was Bacons Rebellion?
Known as 'A city upon a hill'
What was Massachusetts Bay colony?
Ancient land bridge where Native Americans traveled from Asia to America between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago