Early Exploration
European nations searched for this passage to find a quicker trade route to Asia
What was the Northwest Passage?
Finish the statement:
In April of 1607, the ships entered Chesapeake Bay and then sailed up a river, they named the river James and the settlement _________
Jamestown
Producing just enough food for farmer’s family with little left over to exchange or sell
In the colonial legislature, who was generally give a voice in government?
White, landowning males
A conflict between the French and British for land west of the Appalachian mountains - the Ohio River Valley.
What was the French and Indian War?
The economic theory that a nation’s power was based on its wealth
What is Mercantilism?
Of the ten towns now inhabiting in Jamestown, two representatives from each town called Burgesses, created an assembly and had rights to make local laws.
What was the House of Burgesses?
Finish the statement:
These colonial merchant ships followed many different trading routes. Some went directly to England and back. Others followed routes that came to be called _________
Triangular Trade
Finish the Statement:
In the center of most New England towns stood the ________
Meeting House
This Native American alliance supported the British during the French and Indian War
Who were the Iroquious Confederacy?
A viking from Iceland who came across north America in the early 1000s
Who was Leif Erikson?
This stated that upon arrival, they would all
agree to make a government and follow its
rules
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The horrendous transportation method of Africans who were enslaved to the Americas for use of labor.
What was the Middle Passage?
strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans.
What were the Slave Codes?
A leader of the Ottowa united various Native American tribes against the British after the French and Indian War.
Who was Pontiac?
Exchange of goods, ideas, diseases and people between Europe and the Americas
What was the Columbian Exchange
The first written constitution in America, and it described the organization of representative government in detail.
What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
People who signed contracts to work for an employer for a set time (often 4-7 years) in exchange for passage to the Americas.
What was an indentured servant?
a series of religious revivals in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, emphasizing personal, emotional faith and direct connection with God, challenging formal religion
What was the 1st Great Awakening?
An imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains prhobibting colonists from settling west of the crest
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
An Italian explorer who worked for Spain to find a quicker trade route to Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus
The Wampanoag tribe and King Philip were defeated and this war destroyed the power of the Native peoples, leaving colonists free to expand their settlements
What was the King Philip's War?
The idea of middle 1700s that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society.
What was the Enlightenment?
acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
What were the Navigation Acts?
Called for a unified colonial defense against the French during the French and Indian War.
Bonus: Tell me who formulated this defense
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
Benjamin Franklin (+200)