Chapter 6: Early Contact with the New World (1491– 1607) and Colonization of North America (1607–1754)

Roger Williams

Roger Williams

________, a minister in Salem Bay settlement, taught that church and state should be separate.

Anne Hutchinson

________ was a woman in a resolutely patriarchal society which turned many against her.

North America

________ was populated by Native Americans, not to be confused with native- born Americans.

Indian War

French played a significant role in the French and ________ (1754- 1763) but overall had a much lighter impact on native peoples compared to Spanish and English.

Aztecs

________ and Maya are noted for their advances in astronomy, architecture, and art.

Tisquantum Squanto

________, an inhabitant of the village, was captured and brought to Europe as enslaved person.

Virginia Company

In 1618, the ________ introduced the headright system as a means of attracting new settlers to the region and addressing the labor shortage created by the emergence of tobacco farming.

English

Intermarriage was common between Spanish and French settlers and the natives in their colonized territories (though rare among ________ and Dutch settlers)

1619

In ________, Virginia established the House of Burgesses, in which any property- holding, white male could vote.

1620

In ________, Separatists set sail for Virginia on the Mayflower, but went off course and landed in modern- day Massachusetts.

Penn

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

New England

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

Charles II of England

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

England

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

South Carolina

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

Molasses Act

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

Jamestown

________ was funded by a joint- stock company, a group of investors who bought the right to establish New World plantations from the king.

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.

Columbus arrival

________ initiated a long period of European expansion and colonialism in the Americas.

College of William

________ and Mary was chartered in the South in 1693.

Nathaniel Bacon

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

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.

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.

Edwards

________ preached severe, predeterministic doctrines of Calvinism.

Aztec

In the year 1500, the ________ capital of Tenochtitlan was more populous than any city in Eur