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| Why were the Native Americans, who easily outnumbered the Europeans, unsuccessful at stopping the European advancement? | Europeans had superior technology and greater weapons |
| What was the most deadly element of conflict between the First Americans and the Europeans? | Spread of European disease to Indians |
| What was the primary source of much of the conflict between Native Americans and the Europeans? | Land |
| What was not a primary motive for European exploration and colonization in the "New World"? | Adventure |
| How did the Native Americans (First Americans) arrive in North America? | Crossing a land bridge between Asia and North America during the Ice Age |
| What country did NOT participate in the trans-Atlantic encounters? | Asia |
| What were the three major trading centers located in the Middle Colonies? | New York, Baltimore & Philadelphia |
| Joint Stock Companies were primarily used by what country? | England |
| The encounters between the Europeans and the First Americans could typically be described as on of what? | Intolerance and misunderstanding |
| The House of Burgesses refers to what? | The self-governing legislature in Virginia |
| What did the British colonies in the "New World" develop into? | Three distinct regions |
| What was the primary motive for England to establish the Virginia Colony? | Economic Opportunity |
| What does the Middle Passage refer to? | The journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas |
| Who is credited with saving Jamestown during the "starving time"? | John Smith |
| The development of what product turned the settlement of Jamestown into a profitable colony? | Tobacco |
| What was the major reason the Puritans came to the new world? | Religious freedom |
| New England town meetings are a prime example of what? | Direct democracy |
| What group of colonies practiced religious toleration? | Middle colonies |
| English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia were known as what? | Cavaliers |
| What was the first permanent English settlement in North America? | Jamestown |
| Most settlers in the Southern colonies emigrated to the New World for what reason? | Economic opportunity |
| What was the first elected body of representatives int he New World? | House of Burgesses |
| The Virginia Company of London was responsible for what? | The funding of the Jamestown settlement |
| The House of Burgesses is known as what today? | Virginia General Assembly |
| What European influence most negatively impacted the American Indians? | Diseases |
| Who were the First Americans? | the American Indians |
| As the Europeans arrived in greater numbers in North America, what happened to the Native Americans? | Lost their traditional territories |
| Why was the relationship between the French settlers in Canada and the Native Americans more cooperative than in the Spanish and English colonies? | the French did not come in large numbers |
| The growth of a plantation based agricultural economy in the Southern colonies INITALLY led to what? | The introduction of slavery |
| With what group were the values of hard work and thrift associated? | Puritans |
| What was not a popular cash crop in the Southern colonies? | Corn |
| Plantations in the Southern colonies were mostly located where? | in the eastern lowlands |
| What group did NOT believe strongly in private ownership of property and free enterprise? | American Indians |
| What was social status in New England's colonial society based on? | Religious standing |
| What colony was founded by dissenters fleeing persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts? | Rhode Island |
| What is NOT true about the middle colonies? | Believed in the union of church and state |
| What colony was a haven for Quakers? | Pennsylvania |
| Social status in the Southern colonies were based on family status and what? | Ownership of land |
| Which colonies maintained stronger ties to England and an allegiance to the Church of England? | Southern |
| What was the Great Awakening? | A religious revival |
| The development of a slavery-based agricultural economy in the Southern colonies EVENTUALLY led to what? | The American Civil War |
| What did all the colonies have in common? | They were seeking economic oppurtunity |
| What colony is Social Hierarchy based on the role in the Church? | New England Colonies |
| Which colony had many religious groups? | Middle Colonies |
| Which colony had great religious toleration? | Middle Colonies |
| In which colony did the Quakers live? | Middle Colonies |
| Which colony used a plantation economy? | Southern Colonies |
| Which colony sought to establish a perfect Christian society? | New England Colonies |
| Which colony had a large use of slave labor? | Southern Colonies |
| All the colonies had a form of what? | self-government |
| When were all the Native American cultures so diverse At the dawn of the Age of Discovery? | They had adapted to so many different environments. |
| True or False: Western Coast => England | False |
| Who did settled in the Shenandoah Valley? | poor farmers |
| Where were the Spanish Colonies established? | Central and South America |
| Tobacco production was a characteristic of what economy? | Southern |
| What was the period of "hysteria" in New England, that involved false accusations and deaths of innocent people called? | Salem Witch Trials |
| What was the first written plan of democratic government in the New World? | Mayflower Compact |
| What did the Puritans base their "covenant community" on? | Principle of the Mayflower Compact and Puritan beliefs |
| What was not part of the New England economy? | Large scale farming and cash crops |
| Who agreed to work for sponsors in exchange for payment of the trans-Atlantic voyage? | Indentured Servants |
| Whose view of land included all of the following: A spirtual relationship with the earth and nature; land should be controlled by the community, not the individual? | Native Americans |
| What was not an element of Puritans beliefs? | Treating Indians as equals |
| What was the most deadly element of conflict between the First Americans and the Europeans? | Spread of European disease to Indians |
| How did John Smith "save" Jamestown? | he instructed people to work in order to eat. |
| What was the first representative (elected) assembly in the New World? | The House of Burgesses |
| What word describes growing enough food only to survive, not to make a profit? | Subsistence Farming |
| According to Native American people, an individual could not claim ownership rights to: | land |
| Why did African slavery become so important in the South? | They were cheap labor, used to run a plantation and b/c Native Americans did not make good slaves. |
| Crops grown in the South for export and trade were called... | Cash Crops |
| The puritans' Covenant Community was based on: | Mayflower Compact |
| An example of an unsuccessful attempt at colonization before Jamestown was: | Roanoke Colony |
| In what year were Africans first brought to Jamestown? | 1619 |
| What Puritan dissenter was part of the group which started the colony of Rhode Island? | Anne Hutchinson |
