Topic 2 1607 to 1754

Jamestown

100

The Virginia Company that settled Jamestown is an example of this 

Joint-stock company

200

The introduction of this cash crop saved Jamestown and made it profitable 

Tobacco

300

Conflicts between early English settlers and this group of Native Americans were continuous in early Jamestown 

Powhatan Confederacy

400

This settler led a revolt of indentured servants and farmers against Governor Berkley over land disputes and conflicts with Native Americans 

Nathaniel Bacon

500

The region Jamestown was established in that has navigable rivers, access to the Atlantic, and fertile land 

The Chesapeake Ba 

Religion

100

This religious movement in Europe inspired the Puritans religious zeal and dissent against the Anglican Church

The Protestant Reformation 

200

Religious followers in this group settled in Middle Colonies in Pennsylvania and are credited with contributing to the diversity of this region

The Quakers 

300

This Puritan dissenter preached sermons from her home and claimed that she could preach to both men and women 

Anne Hutchinson

400

This emotive evangelical preacher gave sermons all along the easter seaboard inspiring American colonists to get back to church 

George Whitefield

500

This religious revival in the 1730s swept across the American colonies 

The First Great Awakening 

Economics

100

This is the system of trade that developed across the Atlantic ocean where natural resources/ raw materials would be shipped to Britain, finished goods would be produced in Europe, then African slaves would be picked up in the middle passage, and shipped to Europe 

Triangular Trade 

200

This economic policy works to increase exports and decrease imports by controlling trade with a colony

Mercantilism

300

This cash crop fueled the West Indies and caused the increase of importation of African Slave Labor

Sugar

400

The British parliament passed these laws that restricted colonial trade with only the mother country

The Navigation Acts 

500

This English law made it so only firstborn sons could inherit land and influenced second and third-born children to migrate to the American colonies 

Primogeniture 

Seeds of Self-Government

100

The first self-governing body in the American Colonies 

Virginia House of Burgesses

200

The theory that the people have the right to change the government or replace it if the government is misusing its power 

Social Contract (Popular Sovereignty) 

300

These two factors led to the American colonies developing autonomy in government from Britain

Geographic distance/ size and the policy of salutary neglect 

400

John Winthrop famously wrote that Puritans should build "A City Upon A Hill." They attempted to do this by drafting and signing this self-government agreements

The Mayflower Compact 

500

The growing print culture in Europe and America helped to spread ideas from this movement, like the social contract and natural rights, across the Atlantic

Enlightenment Ideas 

Regional Differences

100

The French and Dutch differed from the Spanish because they were more concerned with this commodity than the conversion of Native peoples 

What is the fur trade? 

200

Southern colonies developed plantations systems in the colonial period for this geographic reasons 

Longer growing seasons and warmer climates 

300

Puritans were more concerned with this in New England compared to the Chesapeake and Southern colonies that only sought to make profits 

Religion and building a Puritan society 

400

This slave revolt in South Carolina resulted in stricter more formal slave laws and was the beginning of regional differences between the North and South over the issue of slavery

The Stono Rebellion

500

A group of wealthy Virginians in the mid-1700s were dubbed the "American Gentry" because they were practicing this to prove how British they were 

Anglicization