Early Colonial Era
This system gave land to settlers in exchange for their work, creating a labor force in the Virginia colony.
Headright System
This event saw many English colonies unite under a single royal authority, leading to the dissolution of many local governments.
Dominion of New England
This intellectual movement focused on reason and individualism, influencing the American colonies.
Enlightenment
This war, involving the Wampanoag leader Metacom, was a deadly conflict between Native Americans and English settlers in New England.
Metacom's War (King Phillips War)
This system saw the forced transport of African slaves to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
Middle Passage
This was the first representative assembly in the American colonies, established in Virginia.
House of Burgesses
This was the act that enforced the British economic policy of controlling trade through a system of mercantile laws.
Navigation Acts
These religious leaders, in contrast with the Old Lights, supported emotional revivalism during the First Great Awakening.
New Light Clergy
This series of wars between the English settlers and the Powhatan Confederacy were centered in Virginia.
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
This term refers to laws that controlled every aspect of the lives of enslaved Africans in the colonies.
Slave Laws
This religious group believed in predestination and sought to purify the Church of England.
Puritans
This rebellion in South Carolina involved enslaved Africans fighting for freedom.
The Stono Rebllion
This was a group of settlers who paid for their passage by agreeing to work for a set number of years.
Redemptioners
This Native American tribe was involved in a war against English settlers in South Carolina.
Yamasee War
This type of farming emphasized growing crops like tobacco or cotton for sale rather than subsistence.
Cash Crops
This early colonial practice involved using people to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the New World.
This system was a colonial economic policy that emphasized exporting more than importing goods.
Mercantilism
This act of defiance against British authority allowed critics to express dissatisfaction, even if it meant imprisonment.
Seditious Libel
This rebellion began after the Pequot tribe’s resistance to English colonization in Connecticut.
Pequot War
This system helped facilitate the importation of African slaves by creating a demand for plantation labor.
Slave Code
This was an alliance formed by several Native American tribes, including the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.
Iroquois Confederacy
This war was part of the global conflict between European powers, with England fighting France for dominance in North America.
King Williams War
This event, sparked by religious revivalists, saw large crowds gathering for emotional services in the colonies.
Great Awakening
This war involved the Tuscarora tribe and was an attempt by the Native Americans to resist English settlement.
Tuscarora War
This colonial practice was meant to establish a permanent European presence in the Americas and maintain political and economic control over indigenous lands.
Imperalism