These two groups already claimed the land granted by King James to the Virginia Company.
Who were the Spanish and the Indians?
100
Because New England farms were smaller, they did not produce this type of crop, grown for money instead of sustenance.
What is a cash crop?
100
The long journey across the Atlantic, during which many slaves died before reaching the New World, was given this name.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
These two religious dissenters were exiled by Puritan authorities for preaching ideas that were not accepted by the Puritan leaders. Both wound up in Rhode Island (at least for a time) because of its embrace of "liberty of conscience."
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
100
This system of land distribution broke New England farms into equal sections that were distributed to each son in a family, and eventually led to large shifts in the way the region was settled.
What is partible inheritance?
200
The early Virginia colonists refused to learn this necessary skill, resulting in a high mortality rate during the colony's first years.
What is farming?
200
Conformity to Puritan ideals was reinforced by the widespread participation of New England men in these gatherings.
What are town meetings?
200
American slave owners encouraged their female slaves to do this in order to produce additional labor.
What is have children?
200
This group of people believed that God spoke directly to each individual, making all people equal and rendering ministers and the Bible unnecessary.
Who are Quakers?
200
Most immigrants to the Middle Colonies were from these two ethnicities.
What are German and Scots-Irish?
300
This land grant was given by the Virginia Company to any settler who paid his own way to the Chesapeake.
What is a headright?
300
In 1664, New Netherland became New York when King Charles II took it from the Netherlands and gave it to this man.
Who is his brother, the Duke of York?
300
Slaves were less common in New England than in the South because most labor in New England came from these people.
Who are family members?
300
This group of people shared some basic ideas about how to reform the Church of England but were not a well-organized religion.
Who are the Puritans?
300
This economic policy placed the good of the mother country before the good of the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
400
By 1700, one in every eight people in the Chesapeake region were from this part of the world.
What is Africa?
400
This Puritan rule was instituted in 1662 to let the children of visible saints have partial church membership.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
400
Poor whites in the South took the side of wealthy white landowners because of their mutual perceived differences from this group of people.
Who are slaves?
400
The Puritans who believed that a permanent separation from the Church of England was necessary were called this.
What is Separatists (also: Pilgrims.)
400
The most important change in 18th-century colonial America was the growth of this.
What is the population?
500
By the 1700s, the Southern Colonies were defined by what system of labor?
What is slavery?
500
This war, fought in 1675-1676, gave New England settlers a large war debt, a devastated frontier, and an enduring hatred of Indians.
What is King Philip's War?
500
This uprising in the 18th century proved that slaves did not have the power to overturn the system of slavery or defeat their enemies.
What is the Stono rebellion?
500
Because early voting rights and land grants in New England were based on this, town citizens usually conformed to Puritan ideals.
What is church membership?
500
During the 18th century, colonists in America began to adopt this dual identity.