Term
| Introduction of slavery in the New World |
|
Definition
| Growth of agricultural economy based on large land holdings in the Southern colonies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Canada, Great Lakes, along Mississippi River |
|
|
Term
| Where the Spanish settled |
|
Definition
| Caribbean, Central America and South America |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| North America along the Atlantic coast |
|
|
Term
| Result of European exploration and settlement |
|
Definition
| Indians lost their traditional lands and fell victim to diseases carried from Europe |
|
|
Term
Two main effects of European settlement
on First Americans |
|
Definition
Indians lost their traditional lands
Indians fell victim to European diseases |
|
|
Term
| French settlement differs |
|
Definition
no large-scale immigration from France
relations with native peoples were often more cooperative |
|
|
Term
| Group that settled the New England colonies |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Basis of the New England economy |
|
Definition
| Shipbuilding, fishing, limbeirng, small-scale subsistence farming and eventually manufacturing |
|
|
Term
| Why New England colonies prospered |
|
Definition
| Puritans' belief in the values of hard work and thrift |
|
|
Term
| Basis of the Puritans' covenant community |
|
Definition
| Mayflower compact and Puritan religious beliefs |
|
|
Term
| Puritan tolerance of other religions |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Direct democracy through town meetings |
|
|
Term
| Basis of the New England's colonial society |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| People who challenged the Puritans' belief in the connection between religion and government |
|
|
Term
| Where Puritans tolerant of dissenters |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Where dissenters fled to from Massachusetts |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
|
|
Term
| Why settle Middle Colonies |
|
Definition
| religious freedom and economic opportunity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Religious movement that swept both Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700s |
|
|
Term
| Results of the Great Awakening |
|
Definition
Rapid growth of evangelical religions such as Methodists and Baptists
Challenged established religous and government order
Laid one of the social foundations for the American Revolution |
|
|
Term
| Basis of the Middle Atlantic colonies economy |
|
Definition
| Shipbuilding,small-scale farming and trading |
|
|
Term
| Seaport and commercial cities in the Middle Colonies |
|
Definition
New York
Philiadelphia
Baltimore |
|
|
Term
| Groups that settled the Middle Colonies |
|
Definition
| English, Dutch, and German-speaking immigrants |
|
|
Term
| Colonies home to multiple religious groups |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Religious groups in Middle Colonies |
|
Definition
Quakers in Pennsylvania
Catholics in Maryland
Huguenots and Jews in New York
Presbyterians in New Jersey |
|
|
Term
| Why Middle colonies more tolerant |
|
Definition
more flexible social structure
developed middle class of skilled artisans, entrepreneurs and small farmers |
|
|
Term
| Settled Virginia and Southern Colonies |
|
Definition
| People seeking economic opportunity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| English nobility who received large land grants from the King of England |
|
|
Term
| Settled Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia |
|
Definition
| Poor English immigrants seeking better lives as small farmers or artisans |
|
|
Term
| Economy in the eastern coastal lowlands of Virginia and other Southern colonies |
|
Definition
Large plantations that grew cash crops
tobacco, rice, and indigo for export to Europe |
|
|
Term
| Labor required on the plantation-based agricultural economy of the Southern colonies |
|
Definition
| Indentured servants and slaves |
|
|
Term
| Economy in the mountains and valleys of the Appalachian foothills |
|
Definition
| small subsistence farming, hunting, and trading |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people who agreed to work on tabacco plantations for a period of time to pay their passage to the New World |
|
|
Term
| Where Virginia indentured servants came from |
|
Definition
| England, Scotland, and Ireland |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| indentured servants and slaves |
|
|
Term
| Africans as indentured servants |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Why and when first Africans were brought to Jamestown |
|
Definition
work on tobacco plantations
1619 |
|
|
Term
| First permanent English settlement |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Company that settled Jamestown |
|
Definition
| Virginia Company of London |
|
|
Term
| First elected assembly in the New World |
|
Definition
Virginia House of Burgesses
established in the 1640s |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
General Assembly of Virginia
Still operating today |
|
|
Term
| Social structure in Virginia and Southern colonies |
|
Definition
| family status and land ownership |
|
|
Term
| Dominate group in Virginia and Southern colonies |
|
Definition
| large landowners in the eastern lowlands |
|
|
Term
| Colony with the Church of England |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Society in the mountains and valleys of Virginia and the Southern colonies |
|
Definition
| small subsistence farmers, hunters and traders of Scotch-Irish and English descent |
|
|
Term
| Political life in New England colonies |
|
Definition
| Used town meetings to operate through government modeled after an Athenian direct democracy |
|
|
Term
| Political life in the Middle Colonies |
|
Definition
| Incorporated a number o fdemocratic prinicples that reflected the basic rights of Englishment |
|
|
Term
| Political life in the Southern colonies |
|
Definition
| Maintained stronger ties with Britain, with planters playing leading roles in respresentative colonial legislatures |
|
|
Term
| Characterized colonial life |
|
Definition
| Strong belief in private ownership of property and free enterprise |
|
|
Term
| Slavery-based agricultural ecnonomy in the Southern colonies led to this conflict |
|
Definition
|
|
