AP US History - 1491-1700s

European, Americas, and Africas encounters during 1491 to 1700s.

What was the first English colony in the Americas?

Jamestown

The Spanish used this system to organize and regulate Native American labor.

Encomienda

In 1637, this tribe from Connecticut was nearly eliminated by the extreme violence on colonists part.

Pequot War

He said settlers had no rightful claim to land unless purchased from Native Americans and believed all were free to worship.

Roger Williams

Slavery was legal during the early 1700s in which British North American colonies?

All the colonies

The demand for this product in the Americas le to the increase demand for African slaves.

Crops

Settlers in this colony during the 17th century were primarily seeking profit economically.

Virginia

After 1492, the decline of Native Americans resulted in this groupd of people being imported by the Spanish as a new source of labor?

Africans

She believed worshippers needed neither church or ministers to interpret the Bible.

Anne Hutchinson

What saved Jamestown from failing?

Tobacco

This war in New England between the English and Native Americans led to a dramatic decline and dispersion of the Native Indian population.

Metacom’s or King Philip’s War

A network of trade routes crisscrossing the Northern and Southern colonies that carried an array of traded goods, from furs and fruit to tar and tobacco, as well as African people.

Triangular trade

The trade network that brought fruits, crops, and animals. from Europe and the Americas was known as.

Columbian Trade

What type of colony was Jamestown ar first then later turned in to?

Joint-stock company; royal

The British government guaranteed it would have a financial share of all colonial exports by passing this set of acts in the 1600s and 1700s.

Navigation Acts

The Spanish colonies in the Americas furing the 1500s differed from English colonies in the Americas during the early 1600s by trying to convert Native Americans to this religion.

Christianity

Name one cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492.

Diseases/Epidemics

In the 18th century, British North American colonies were most alike in that all were under the king of England or this type of colony.

Royal

John Winthrop’s idea of a moral society whose members worked together toward a common goal and lived accordingly to Christian principles.

City Up on a Hill

This rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina was a slave insurrection.

Stono Rebellion

Enslaved Africans in the New World colonies replaced labor once performed by indigenous peoples and this group from Europe.

Indentured servants

The system that carried slaves from West Indies to North America.

Middle Passage

This group of people required church membership for voting and holding public office, they also settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century.

Puritans

The Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as.

Mercantilism

This group wanted to purify the Church of England by eliminating all traces of Catholicism.

Puritans

Rebellion led by a group of farmers who protested the lack of support for the poor frontier settlers and exposed the growing power of the colony’s former indentured servants.

Bacon’s Rebellion

The introduction of this crop saved Virginia from economic ruin in the 17th century.

Tobacco

One characteristic of this colony was that there was no established church.

Pennsylvania

This event occured when frontier settlers and the Virgina governor disagreed over the relations with American Indians and the restrictions on the fur trade.

Bacon’s Rebellion

Mercantilism stated a nation could become rish and powerful in two ways. What are they?

1. Obtain valuable metals

2. Establish trade balance; import>export