Native American Settlements and European Settlements (Pre-Revolutionary War)

French and Indian War

The British and French fought to expand their empires in the Americans from 1754 to 1763, war spread to Europe in 1756 and called the Seven Years War, British were victorious, received French Canada as main spoils of the war

Franciscans

Catholic missionaries who established settlements in the late 1500s in what is now the southwestern United States, at their missions Christian conversion was encouraged but Native Americans were used as virtual slaves, rebellions at the missions began in 1598

Great Awakening

Great religious revival that swept through the colonies from the 1720s to the 1740s, preachers challenged the “cold” message of the established churches and stirred congregations with powerful, emotional sermons, encouraged a sense of social equality and the questioning of authority

Stono Rebellion

1739 slave rebellion in South Carolina in which more than 75 slaves killed white citizens and marched through the countryside, after the rebellion was crushed- slave owners imposed harsher discipline, the largest slave rebellion in the 18th century America

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan housewife, claimed to have received special revelations from God, angered many leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, expelled from Massachusetts, Hutchinson and her family joined other dissenters like Roger Williams in Rhode Island

Triangular Trade System

Complex trading relationship that developed in the late 17th century between the Americas, Europe, and Africa, Europeas purchased African slaves to sell in the Americas, raw materials from the Americas were sold to Europe, and manufactured goods from Europe were sold in the Americas

Hunter-Gatherers

Early societies that existed not by farming but by moving from place to place and gathering food as they went, some early Native American tribes in northern New England lived as hunter-gatherers

Jesuits

Catholic missionary group that established settlements in Florida, New Mexico, Paraguay, and several areas within French territory in North America, were organized with military precision and order