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Pilgrims' initial experience with Native Americans

Peaceful relations with Native Americans were a result of the Pilgrims' planned, deliberate efforts.

Massachusetts Bay Company grant

The organizers received a grant for an area almost identical to the present-day Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

James I's policies regarding Puritans

Religious dissenters looked to the New World to escape the king.

Puritans' emigration from England

The Puritans sought to found a colony where all people would be free to worship as they wished.

Connecticut

Religious dissenters in Massachusetts Bay formed colonies that later became Connecticut.

Mayflower Compact purpose

To establish a government for themselves.

Puritan investors' decision in 1629

Buy out the other investors and settle the colony as a group.

James I's policy objection by Puritans

Granting charters and other favors to English Catholics.

Tensions between settlers and Native Americans

The colonists' increasing demand for more land.

English colonization in the late sixteenth century

England successfully challenged Spanish sea power.

Pequot War bloodiest act

In the bloodiest act of the war, Native Americans set fire to an English stronghold filled with people.

Hartford and New Haven colonies

The Fundamental Articles of New Haven in 1639 guaranteed religious freedom.

Significance of the Mayflower Compact

Established the concept of a separate but loyal colonial government in North America.

Quakers and Puritans commonality

Establishment of a religious refuge in North America.

Native Americans' population decline response

Importing Native Americans from Virginia.

King Philip's War outcome

The war brought an end to Indian resistance against white settlement in New England.

William Penn and Pennsylvania colony profitability

Statements about William Penn and the profitability of the Pennsylvania colony.

William Penn

Thanks to his successful investments in Pennsylvania, he retired to a life of leisure in England in 1718.

Rise of slavery in the Caribbean

Not influenced by the success of tobacco and cotton plantations.

Quakers

Incorrectly stated to subscribe to the ideas of predestination and original sin like the Puritans.

Middle grounds

Frontier areas in which settlers and Native Americans vied for control, with neither side able to establish clear dominance.

Indentured labor system

Incorrectly stated that the experience of female indentured laborers was almost identical to males'.

Grant of land to William Penn

Incorrectly stated that Charles II sharply limited his authority in the colony due to fears of dictatorial powers.

Moral considerations and slavery

Incorrectly stated that moral considerations initially prevented the English from adopting slavery.

Status of women in the Chesapeake

Incorrectly stated that their power and freedom changed little in the 1700s.

Example of middle grounds

A good example in seventeenth-century America was the area along the western borders of English settlement.

Experience of male indentured servants

After completing their terms of service, they often did not receive what they had been promised and found themselves unprepared for independence.

Demand for enslaved Africans

Grew rapidly after tobacco became a profitable crop in the Chesapeake.

Limited slavery in English colonies

Relatively limited before the late seventeenth century because Portuguese slavers sold primarily to South America and the Caribbean.

Eighteenth-century laws and black people

Determined by skin color.

Process of becoming a slave

Incorrectly stated that by the time slaves were auctioned and sold, they understood what had happened to them.

Triangular trade

The commercial relationships that linked Africa, the West Indies, America, and Europe, and the network of imports and exports that spanned the Atlantic world.

Slave codes

In the early 18th century, colonial legislative assemblies began passing laws that limited the rights of enslaved people.