Colonies
First corporate colony.
What is Jamestown colony?
Settlement founded by Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Colony characterized by fertile farming land that produced wheat, oats, fruits, and raised livestock and port cities with flourishing logging, shipbuilding, and fishing industries.
What are the middle colonies?
Movement the Great Awakening a response to.
What is the Enlightenment?
Workers under contracts of 4–7 years with a master or landowner who paid their passage to the colonies.
Who are Indentured Servants?
Colonies under the control of the King.
What are Royal Colonies?
Founder of Maryland, who was a devoted Catholic.
Who is George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)?
Region characterized by small family farms with an economy focused on extraction and exporting of natural resources such as furs, iron, timber, and fish.
What are the New England colonies?
Revolt of angry indentured servants and backcountry farmers in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion (1676–1677)?
Rebellion of enslaved Africans in South Carolina who sought freedom by marching down to Florida.
What is the Stone Rebellion of 1739?
Colonies under the authority of people given lands by the king to establish.
What are proprietary colonies?
Helped save Virginia from collapse in its early years by introducing tobacco which became a cash crop for the Chesapeake colonies.
John Rolfe
Main cash crop for the colonies of Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
Puritan belief that from birth individuals were predetermined whether they were "God's chosen people."
What is Predestination?
Decline of these labor forces led to an increase in the use of African slaves by the late-17th century (late-1600s)
What are Indentured Servants and Indian Slaves?
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Who is Captain John Smith?
Economic policy focused on maximizing exports and minimizing the imports for a nation. (Enriching the parent country)
What is mercantilism?
Non-English immigrants to 13 colonies.
Who are Germans and Scotch-Irish
War that occurred in 1637 after a fur trader was said to be killed by Native Americans in New England.
What is the Pequot War?
Colonies operated by joint-stock companies.
What are corporate colonies?
First representative colonial assembly in Virginia.
Main cash crop of the Carolinas.
What is Rice?
Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Settlements created in New England to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What are Praying Towns (Praying Indians)?
Colony founded by and for Puritans.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
First document to establish self-government in the colonies and served a model for the constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade England.
What are the Navigation Acts (1650–1673)?
Puritan idea that hard work, frugality, diligence, and faith were necessary for a person to be able to go to Heaven.
What is Protestant Work Ethic?
Colonies where settlers owned slaves.
What are the 13 colonies?
Created by the joining of Hartford and New Haven.
What is Connecticut?
What is the Great Migration?
Case that set the precedent for freedom of the press.
What is the Zenger Case (1735)?
Society w/ no distinction between the laws of the Puritan church and laws of the colony. (+2x if correct)
What is a Theocratic Society?
Free (Plus)
Created by the honing of Providence and Portsmouth.
What is Rhode Island?
First written constitution in America in 1639.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Name 2 pros and 2 cons of mercantilist policies for the colonies. (-2x if wrong)
Specific class of people that developed in major trading centers such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Characterized by the selling of goods.
What is the Merchant Class?
Specific type of economy held by the Southern colonies that relied on enslaved labor. (Hint: Yes, agriculture, but looking for another term that described the magnitude of the agricultural production compared to the middle colonies)
What is a plantation economy?