Vocabulary
A part of the triangular trade, the long journey to the Americas, where African prisoners were transported to the new world.
What is The Middle Passage?
He created Pennsylvania for the Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
First colony. Purpose: gold
What is Jamestown?
First governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe.
What is the Enlightenment?
The first elected legislature in the United States.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Female puritan spiritual advisor, who challenged the clergy.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
These colonies grew tobacco, indigo and rice, they were labor intensive crops that required slaves, isolated farms, not as close knit.
What are the southern or Chesapeake region.
Act assuring religious freedom to all Christians sent by the Calverts from England.
What was the Toleration act?
armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England and English Colonists and their Indian allies
What is King Phillip's War?
A landowner gets land for each person he brings over to the new world.
What is the Headright System?
General who was interested in prison reform. He founded Georgia.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Name for North New England colonies. They gre grain crops, they did not need slaves, they had close knit towns due to smaller farms.
What are bread and basket colonies.
Closed the colonies to all trade except ones carried by English ships, required that all goods sent from Europe to the colonies pass through England on the way, where they would be subject to English taxation
What is the Navigation Acts?
Rebellion due to the large amount of newly freed indentured servants and the limited land available east of the mississippi river. Resulted in the mistrust in indentured servitude, by both parties.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
fixed term of servitude in exchange for passage to America, food, and shelter.
What is the Indentured System?
Founder of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
Settlement started by the puritans.
Where is Plymouth.
Granted white masters almost absolute authority over their slaves.
What are the slave codes?
Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
A child born from a slave is a slave. The most popular and cheapest form of slavery
What is chattel slavery?
Got the Charter for the Chesapeake Bay Colony. Used as a Catholic sanctuary.
Who are George Calvert?
The area where Europeans and indians lived together in regions that neither side was able to establish clear dominance was called this.
What was the middle grounds.
Term from the Greek for "hostile to law". Used to describe people who opposed the Massachusetts clergy.
What is antinomianism.
100 slaves rose up, seized weapons, killed several whites, and attempted to escape to south Florida. Resulted in stricter slavery laws.
What is the Stono Rebellion?