Unit 1 (Colonial History)

A system where, Spanish settlers force long hours of labor, don’t pay for labor, don’t protect Natives, seize their land, Native die from harsh working conditions and are tortured.

Encomienda System

A time when the Spanish conquistadors LOSS to the Pueblo in the New Mexico territory who resisted attempts by the Spanish to force them to practice Catholicism.

Pope’s Rebellion of Pueblo Revolt.

The transfer of goods, diseases, people and ideas from the Old World and the New World.

Columbian Exchange

A religious individual who argued against Native American mistreatment of Native Americans in the Valladolid Debate.

Bartolome de las Casas

Identify two conquistadores.

Cortes, Pizarro, Columbus, Onate, De Soto, Coronado, De Leon, etc.

The name for children between a Native American and Spanish colonizer.

Mestizo

What is the event and significance that happened in 1588?

The Spanish Armada loss to England and allowed England colonize parts of North America as a result.

What is the name for a group of investors who funded England’s first settlements in the “New World” and specifically name the one that helped finance Jamestown?

Joint stock company and the Virginia Company.

Identify the first permanent English Settlement

Jamestown

Identify that person that made Jamestown profitable with the planting of tobacco.

John Rolfe

What is the term that means to break away from the Church of England AND identify a specific group that traveled to Plymouth to carry out their religious beliefs?

Separatists AND Pilgrims

What the term that means to not want to break away from the Church of England AND identify one specific group who traveled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to create a more ideal church.

Non-separatists AND Puritans

Identify the first representative government in the English Colonies located in Virginia

House of Burgesses

A system where someone would pay the trans Atlantic voyage of an individual and in return, that individual would work typically seven years to repay that debt. This helped populate specifically the Chesapeake/Southern regions.

Indentured Servitude or Indentured Servants

Identify two religious dissenters from Puritan society who were banished from the colony.

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

Identify the Puritan minister who said their society would be a “city upon a hill” for all the world to see.

John Winthrop

Identify the name of the first colonial Constitution founded in Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

A significant event even in colonial Virginia that resulted in a decline of indentured servitude and an increase in chattel slavery.

Bacon’s Rebellion

Identify the part of the triangular trade that transported enslaved people from Africa to the America’s.

Middle Passage

Identify the slave uprising that happened in South Carolina where enslaved individuals tried to escape to Spanish Florida.

Stono Rebellion or Stono River Revolt

Identify two religious leaders of the 1st Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

An economic policy where a mother country exerts raw materials from a colony to sell manufactured products back to that colony in order to gain wealth (gold).

Mercantilism

A British policy that did not allow the American colonies trade with other countries and only British ships could be used to trade goods.

Navigation Acts

The British policy to ignore some American colonists’ defiance of the Navigation Acts.

Salutary Neglect

Who is the person who fled the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay colony and created the colony of Connecticut?

Thomas Hooker

Who is the governor of Virginia who defied Nathaniel Bacon by not provided protection against Native Americans?

William Berkeley

List five characteristics of the New England Colonies

List five characteristics of the Southern Colonies.

Who was the founder of Rhode Island?

Roger Williams

Which colony was the first to have religious toleration for all individuals?

Rhode Island

What was the name of the Act in Maryland that provided religious freedom to all individuals except Atheists and believes in the Jewish faith?

Act of Toleration

Identify the Native American conflict that erupted in colonial New England that devastated 52 towns but eventually saw the Native Americans lose consequently opening up western expansion in MA.

King Philip’s War

Identify the Native American conflict between Jamestown settlers and the local Native American tribe

Powhatan Wars

One reason why young men traveled to the New World from England was because of a policy said only the oldest born son received land from their parents. What was this policy called?

Primogeniture

What English settlement was founded in 1620?

Plymouth, MA

Identify the term where a wealthy individual would purchase the travel of someone to come to the new world (Southern/Chesapeake colonies) and would receive 50 acres of land in return.

Headright System

List three specific things that traveled from the Old World to the New World in the Columbian Exchange.

List three specific things that traveled from the New World to the Old World in the Columbian Exchange.