Unit 2: Period 2: 1607-1754

1691

1691

In ________, Massachusetts became a royal colony under new monarchs, suffrage was extended to all Protestants.

Slavery

________ played a major role on plantations, but majority of Southerners were subsistence farmers.

Penn

________ made a treaty with the Delawares to take only as much land as could be walked by a man in three days.

North American continent

Colonies on the ________ were seen primarily as markets for British and West Indian goods, but also as sources of raw materials.

New England

Slavery was rare in ________, but farms in middle and southern colonies were much larger, requiring large numbers of enslaved Africans.

South Carolina

________ had a larger proportion of enslaved Africans than European settlers.

England

________ regulated trade and government in its colonies but interfered in colonial affairs as little as possible.

Charles II of England

In 1664, ________ waged war against the Dutch Republic and captured New Netherland.

Molasses Act

________ of 1733, imposed an exorbitant tax upon the importation of sugar from the French West Indies.

Governor

________ had powers similar to the king, but also dependent on colonial legislatures for money.

Autonomy

________ allowed eased transition to independence in following century.

William Penn

________, a Quaker, received colony as a gift from King Charles II.

Dutch Republic

________ was largest commercial power of the century and economic rival of the British.

Navigation

________ Acts passed between 1651 and 1673, required colonists to buy goods only from England, sell certain of their products only to England, and import non- English goods via English ports and pay a duty on those imports.

College of William

________ and Mary was chartered in the South in 1693.

Arrival of settlers

________ from Barbados marked the beginning of the slave era in the colonies.

West Indies

Colonies were important mostly for economic reasons, which is why the British considered their colonies in the ________ more important than their colonies on the North American continent.

Nathaniel Bacon

________, a recent immigrant, rallied the farmers and demanded Governor William Berkeley grant him authority to raise a militia and attack nearby tribes.

Edwards

________ preached severe, predeterministic doctrines of Calvinism.

Navigation Acts

________ also prohibited the colonies from manufacturing a number of goods that England already produced.

Slavery

________ and tobacco played a larger role in the Chesapeake than in the middle colonies.

Penn

________ established liberal policies towards religious freedom and civil liberties.