APUSH Unit 1 Lessons 1-3 Quiz

The House of Burgesses

First Democratic, Representative Government in the Colonies

The Headright System

A system that gave 50 acres of land to new colonists and increased indentured servitude

Bacons Rebellion

Virginia’s Governer, William Burkley, refused to take the colonists concerns about Native American Hositility seriously, causing a rebellion, a decrease, in indentured servents and increase in the importation of slaves

When were the first slaves imported

1617

Mayflower Compact

The First Direct Democrasy in America

John Winthrop (city upon a hill, ie: boston

The Leader of the Puritans

Roger Williams

The Founder of Rhode Island (was exiled from mass. bc he criticized cruel treatment of Native Americans) and an advocate for separation of church and state

William Penn

The Founder of Pennsylvania (made of quakers, anti slavery and war, idea that everyone is equal, beleived in fair treatment of the native Americans and the most democratic colony)

Henry Hudson

Founder of the New Netherlands/New York (religious freedom, and many immigrants, taken over by the English bc they’re gunpowder was wet and they were unable to fight so they surrendered. part of it was divided to become New Jersey)

Thomas Hooker

Founder of Connecticut (wanted for religious freedom than in mass)

George Calvert aka. Lord Baltimore

Founder of Maryland (founded as a safe haven for Catholics bc they were outnumbered by protestants)

The Fundemental Orders of Connecticut

First Constitution in the nation and served as a blue print for democratic government

Maryland Toleration Act

Guarenteed religious freedom to all CHRISTAINS

South Carolina

had large slave populations built on cotton and tabbaco

John Rolfe

Brought the tobacco seed from South America to Virgina making it a cash crop in the colonies

Merchantlism

1670-1754 the system of nations increasing their wealth and power through trade with the colonies

1729

When did NC and SC split into two separate colonies

Salutary Neglect

Due to conflict in England, they put very loose supervision and law enforcement on the colonies leading them to start feeling more independent from England

Stono Rebellion

An uprising of slaves from South Carolina to Flordia and killed any white people in their path while trying to seek refuge in Florida (occupied by Spain) and caused Slave Owners to fear their slaves and led to stricter laws and treatment of slaves (31 black people killed in NYC in response)

James Olethrope

Founder of Georgia. Founded as a haven for those in debt and those running from the law and served as a buffer from Spanish areas

Navigation Act

Passed by the Englsih Parliment confining colonial trade to only exporting to England. Restricted colonial buiness and increase colonial smuggling and tensions between England and the colonies

Southern Society

Majority poor farmers (did not own slaves), Minority Plantation Owners (owned slaves), Slavery was viewed an a nessasary evil to support the agriculture industry

Slavery in America

Slaes replaced Native Americans and indentured servants, Slaves develouped their own culturre and their was slave resistance

The Middle Passage

The voyage from Africa to North America for slaves

Triangular Trade

America to Euopre: Sugar, Gold, Silver, Tobacco

Europe to Africa: Guns, Whiskey, Mirror, Cloths

Africa to America: Slaves