VOCAB./KEY TERMS!
This is the name for an individual who was contracted to serve for a period of 4 to 7 years in return for payment of passage to America.
WHO ARE INDENTURED SERVANTS?
What key animal was the lifeblood of almost every Native American tribe in early America?
WHAT IS THE BUFFALO?
This group of people created a new colony in what is now known today as New York. Who were these people and what did they name their colony?
WHO ARE THE DUTCH? / WHAT IS NEW NETHERLAND?
This is the name for the founder of Pennsylvania colony and the religious denomination he fostered and grew.
WHO IS WILLIAM PENN? / WHO ARE QUAKERS?
This was the name for the business venture that was established and spread by early British exploration and settlement.
WHAT IS THE VIRGINIA COMPANY? / VIRGINIA JOINT-STOCK COMPANY?
This woman was credited with having helped the struggling English settlers in Virginia survive in the early 1600s. This was the name of the leader of the English settlers who worked well with this named woman.
WHO IS POCAHONTAS? / WHO IS JOHN SMITH?
This was the name of the first government drafted on-board ship before settlers reached the New World.
WHAT IS THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT?
The notorious global trade network of Triangle Trade went between which three continents?
WHAT IS EUROPE, AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA?
Spanish colonizers set up these institutions throughout North America to spread religion and governance. These people were the appointed heads to lead governing processes too.
WHAT ARE MISSIONS? / WHO ARE VICEROYS?
This was the first permanent settlement in the New World. This was also the state that it was set-up in.
WHAT IS JAMESTOWN? / WHAT IS VIRGINIA?
This was the first legislative body established in the colonies that used British governance as a model for governing.
WHAT IS THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES?
This man was a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer village.
WHO IS SQUANTO?
This is the name for the system of land distribution during the early colonial era that granted settlers a set of amount of land for each person who settled in a colony.
WHAT IS THE HEADRIGHT SYSTEM?
Most slaves traveled across the Atlantic in a notorious route called this. This is also the main country that started the global mainstream slave trade.
WHAT IS THE MIDDLE PASSAGE? / WHO ARE THE PORTUGESE FROM PORTUGAL?
This unique demographic group of people began to appear in European filled North America in the 1600s and 1700s. What was their name and ethnic make-up too?
WHO ARE MESTIZOS? / WHO ARE INDIAN AND EUROPEAN ?
These two Christian religious denominations are most credited for the founding and development of New England colonies in the American Northeast.
WHO ARE PILGRIMS? / WHO ARE PURITANS?
Britain developed a policy called ______________ ______________ that allowed colonists to create local laws and taxes in colonial assemblies.
WHAT IS SALUTARY NEGLECT?
This important colonial leader was granted a charter for the land as a haven in which his fellow Roman Catholics might escape the restrictions placed on them in. Name the person and colony.
WHO IS JAMES CALVERT ? / WHAT IS MARYLAND?
This was the name for the uprising that occurred in which militia attacked not only Indian villages but also royal governor before being defeated.
WHAT IS BACON'S REBELLION?
What was the largest group of Native Americans in the 1600s and 1700s that experienced most contact with the European colonizers.
WHAT ARE THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY?
These two important places were colonized by the British which exponentially helped in early crop and slave trade.
WHAT IS BARBADOS? / WHAT IS JAMAICA?
This was the name for the American colony that had the most slaves by mid 1700s.
WHAT IS NORTH CAROLINA?
These were the three biggest port cities in early British North America - which helped Britain in their maritime trade.
WHAT ARE BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK CITY?
This important leader founded this southern American colony in the 1700s.
WHO IS JAMES OGLETHORPE? / WHAT IS GEORGIA?
This was the name for the pact formed by colonial leaders for an intercolonial alliance to manage defense and Indian affairs.
WHAT IS THE ALBANY PLAN OF UNION?
These were the most profitable cash crops grown by early American colonists and traded by European superpowers?
1. T______________
2. W____________
3. R_____________
4. C_____________
5. B_____________
WHAT IS ...?
1. TOBACCO?
2. WHEAT?
3. RICE?
4. CORN?
5. BEANS?
This is the name for the French's most northern city and the French's most southern city in continental North America.
WHAT IS QUEBEC, CANADA? / WHAT IS NEW ORLEANS?
These are the three different styles of colonial governing used in early America.
WHAT ARE ROYAL COLONIES / CHARTER COLONIES / PROPRIETARY COLONIES?
WHAT IS KING PHILIP'S WAR?
This is the number of how many people were killed and jailed in the Salem Witch Trials.
WHAT IS 19 PEOPLE? / WHAT IS 150 CITIZENS?