APUSH: 1607-1775 (C6-7)

1607

_______ was the earliest form of labor used for tobacco cultivation.

Indentured servants

_______ was one of the first colonial laws that provided some religious freedom.

Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)

Sermon that focused on how the Puritan settlers should treat one another to help each other and the colony survive.

“Model of Christian Charity” - City Upon a Hill

_______ were a religious group that established Massachusetts, New Haven (Connecticut), Rhode Island. Not the Pilgrims

Puritans

Because of the deep, rich soil, the Middle Colonies were known _______

bread basket

What was the original purpose of colony in Jamestown?

Profit (Joint stock company)

System where land is granted to settlers who migrate to America to cultivate the land.

Headright system

Who was protected under the Maryland Act of Toleration?

Catholics & Protestants not jews or Muslims

_______ was a written agreement that the colonists of Plymouth would rule themselves based on majority rule

Mayflower Compact

_______ a Puritan leader & founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony

John Winthrop

What are all middle colonies?

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware

Primal settlers in the Chesapeake were mostly single men pursuing profit. How did the original New England settlers differ from that?

Families seeking religious freedom

What contributed to the “starving period” where many Jamestown colonists died of disease & starvation.

Colonists were not used to working

First body of elected legislative representatives. It was located in Virginia

House of Burgesses (1607)

What was the major cash crop of South Carolina?

Rice

The is the forum by which NE colonists were granted civic voice. (They were allowed to be heard in the democratic process)

Town Hall Meetings

Word that describes individuals who disagree with the church in New England colonies

Dissenters

Quaker leader whose “Holy Experiment” was create a society where all religions enjoyed religious freedom.

William Penn

Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, argued that government and religion should remain independent from one another — this principle became a cornerstone of American democracy.

separation of church and state

_______ was the Englishman who “saved” Jamestown by establishing strict military discipline?

John Smith

_______ was an armed uprising led by former indentured servant and backcountry farmer against Governor Berkley for failing to provide protection from Indians.

Bacon’s rebellion

In the Caribbean, Barbados & Jamaica used slave labor to produce this cash crop.

Sugar

Founded by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, _______ was the first college in the colonies.

Harvard

She was banished from the colony for preaching to both men and women - challenged male authority 

Anne Hutchinson

European Nation who occupied New York before Brits took over

Dutch

These British laws required that colonial goods be shipped on English vessels and sold primarily to British.

Navigation acts

This became the major cash crop of the early Virginia colony

Tobacco

what were the requirements to participate in the democratic process under the HOB?

Male and Land Owner

Name of the Native-American Tribe & Chief that Jamestown colonists came into conflict with

Powhatan

What is 1-2 words that describes the social structure of New England colonies.

cooperative, church-centered, tight-knit

he was banished from the colony and founded Rhode Island

Roger Williams

What is ONE unique social characteristic of middle colonies 

Ethnically diverse, religious tolerance

To get around the Navigation Acts, many colonists in the 1600s engaged in this illegal trade practice.

Smuggling

Name the TWO Chesapeake colonies

Maryland and Virginia

These two groups came into conflict when the House of Burgess did not provide defense from conflict with Powhatan Indians.

Backcountry farmers and Tidewater elite

One-word description of southern colonial society

Hierarchy or Stratified

Requirement to vote in New England Town Hall Meetings?

Male church member, sometimes property requirements

Wampanoag chief who led one of the most costly Native vs. colonists was in the New England colonies

King Phillip, Metacom

Major religious group in Pennsylvania who also founded the first anti-slavery society in the colonies (1775)

Quakers

This was the unwritten British policy of NOT enforcing their Navigation Acts (Mercantilist laws)

Salutary neglect

Why did “regional developments” occur amongst the British colonies?

All are English colonies, yet 

each have very distinct culture

Southern Colonies Economy?

Agricultural, cash crops, large plantations, poor farmers

Southern colonies environment?

long growing seasons, rich fertile soil, long summer, short winter

Name the 4 New England colonies

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

What were groups to settle in Massachusetts and their reasons for leaving England?

Separatists such as Pilgrims and Putitans, for religious freedom

What was New England’s economy built on?

Lumber, fish, ship building, ocean trade