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What were the European religious conflicts which helped encourage exploration? | Crusades |
The French protestants who emigrated to the New World were the? | Huguenots |
Which group of immigrants to the New World were mainly interested in commercial possibilities? | Dutch |
The Puritans were influenced by whom? | John Calvin & his ideas of Predestination |
Who opposed the Church of England & fled to Holland & from there to America? | Separatists |
The 1st permanent English settlement was? | Jamestown in 1607 |
King James I granted who a royal charter to est. a colony? | the London Company/ joint-stock co. |
Which group of Indians assisted the newly arrived colonists? | Powhatan Confederacy |
A person who came to the New World to work in exchange for having their passage paid.... | Indentured servants |
What was the usual required service time for an indentured servant? | 5 to 7 years |
What was the 1st representative govt. in the British colonies? | House of Burgesses |
Why was colonization in New England different than in some of the other areas? | many religious dissenters settled there |
What document did the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock write? | Mayflower Compact |
What idea did the Mayflower Compact promise? | it promised that their settlement would have a govt. answerable to the will of the people |
Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the Puritans? | 1629- John Winthrop |
What were some of the differences between the VA & MA Bay Colonies? | - the slave labor of VA never existed in MA. - VA was settled mostly by single men - In MA, religion & political participation went hand-in-hand |
What was a necessity for political participation in VA? | land ownership |
What colony was settled in 1632 for English Catholics? | Maryland |
Who was responsible for settling the Maryland colony? | George Calvert |
Settlement in NC was similar to VA, but SC used..... | slave labor, indentured servants, & Indians to work the plantations |
What were some of the effects of Fr., & British settlement? | diseases, agricultural products changed the ecosystem, population patterns were changed in Africa & America, intro. of representative govt. & freedom of religion |
What was the dominant economic philosophy of the period? | Mercantilism |
What said that it was crucial for a state to export more than it imported? | Mercantilism |
What were some examples of mercantilist tactics of the day? | possession of colonies, tariffs, & monopolies |
What were the Navigation Acts of 1660 for? | stated that certain products from the colonies like sugar, tobacco, & indigo could only be shipped to Eng. |
What was the uprising that burned Jamestown and showed a new anti-authority feeling in the colonies? | Bacon's Rebellion |
What was a complex trading system that dev. in this era between Europe, Africa, & the colonies? | Triangular trade system |
The shipping of slaves from Africa directly to America was known as the? | Middle Passage |
What was a famous slave revolt near Charleston, SC? | the Stono Rebellion |
In 1688, the King of Eng. was removed from the throne in the..... | Glorious Revolution |
Who founded Jamestown & worked with the Powhatan Indians? | John Smith |
The horrible winter in Jamestown in 1609 was? | the Starving Time |
Who worked to cultivate tobacco as a cash crop? | John Rolfe |
Who founded the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania? | William Penn |
Who est. the colony of Rhode Island & preached about the "separation of church & state?" | Roger Williams |
Who had to move to Rhode Island because of their belief in a "self-interpretation of the Bible?" | Anne Hutchinson |