American Yawp- Chapter 3

The Walking Purchase of 1737 seized land from Native Americans in which colony?

Pennsylvania

The English colonists of Carolina survived the 1715-17 Yamasee War largely because of their alliance with what powerful group?

The Cherokees

What crop led to the creation of large plantations and great wealth for the colonial elite in the Carolina's?

Rice

Bacon's Rebellion and King Phillips War occurred at approximately the same time, in Virginia and Massachusetts respectively. What factor helped to start both of these wars?

Hostilities with native people

Most enslaved people were taken from which region in Africa?

West Africa

Puritans derived their theology primarily from which system of Christian thought?

Calvinist

The Spanish king adopted which of the following policies for enslaved Africans who escaped English territory to St. Augustine, Florida?

Escaping slaves were freed

Under Virginia law, enslaved children inherited their status from which family member?

Their mother

Of the roughly 12 million enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic during the 16-19th centuries, about how many of them landed in North America?

450,000

How did the enslaved population of North America differ from those of other colonial societies?

A higher percentage of women