Worlds Collide
This crop supported permanent settlements and complex societies like the Aztec and Iroquois.
What is Maize (or corn)?
This was the primary motivation for the founding of the Jamestown colony in 1607.
What is economic gain (or profit)?
This act of Parliament reinforced mercantilism by restricting colonial trade only to British ships and ports.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The economy of this colonial region focused on shipping, trade, and small-scale manufacturing due to its rocky soil and poor climate for cash crops.
What are the New England Colonies?
The primary goal of both Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Stono Rebellion.
What is to resist imperial/colonial authority (or oppression)?
This economic theory, based on maximizing exports and minimizing imports to benefit the mother country, defined the colonization era.
What is Mercantilism?
This colonial founder established Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts Bay for advocating the separation of church and state.
Who is Roger Williams?
This labor system offered 50 acres of land to colonists who paid for another immigrant's passage to the colonies.
What is the Headright System?
The religious revival movement of the 1730s and 1740s that emphasized personal, emotional faith over traditional authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
The global conflict, also known as the French and Indian War, fought between Britain and France from 1754 to 1763.
What is the Seven Years' War?
The Spanish system of forced labor that extracted silver and gold and exploited Native American populations.
What is the Encomienda System?
The social and political tension in 17th-century Puritan society was dramatically exposed by this 1692 event.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
The revolt led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676 demonstrated the instability of the indentured servant labor system.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The two distinct groups in the Great Awakening who either embraced the revivalist movement or resisted the emotional shift in religion.
What are New Lights and Old Lights?
The document that formally ended the French and Indian War in 1763, giving Britain control of North America east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
The transfer of diseases like smallpox to the Americas, leading to a catastrophic demographic decline.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The New England Puritan ideal of creating a perfect, godly society for the world to admire, espoused by John Winthrop.
What is a "City Upon a Hill"?
A series of laws passed in Southern colonies that institutionalized racial distinctions and limited the autonomy of enslaved people.
What are Slave Codes?
This geographic feature was the source of conflict between Britain and France, directly leading to the start of the Seven Years' War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This imperial decree was issued after the Seven Years’ War to prohibit colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, angering American colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The economic shift in Europe from land-based wealth and tradition to currency-based investment and commerce, accelerated by New World gold.
What is the shift from Feudalism to Capitalism?
This type of colony, like Pennsylvania, was governed by an individual or family granted rights by the King, rather than being under the direct control of the Crown.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
The acceleration of this specific labor system was the most significant long-term result of Bacon’s Rebellion.
What is the shift to African Chattel Slavery?
The motivation of the French in North America, which led to generally more cooperative relationships with Native American groups than the English.
What is the Fur Trade?
The underlying tension between British authorities and enslaved people that was violently exposed in the 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina.
What is the fear of slave revolt (or the brutal conditions of chattel slavery)?