European Rivalries | New England | Colonial Economics | British Colonies in the 18th Century | Resistance to Europeans |
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What is immigration (including women)?
This one factor, more than any other, gave the English the advantage over other European colonizers
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What is Puritanism?
The dominant religion of the region.
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What was indentured servitude OR the Headright System?
African slavery replaced this labor system in the Chesapeake colonies.
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What is the Enlightenment?
Political thought in the colonies was greatly influenced by this intellectual movement.
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What is the Powhatan War?
Native American efforts to expel the Jamestown settlers in 1622.
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What are the Beaver Wars?
Conflicts over the fur trade between 1640 and 1701 were known as this.
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What is trade/commerce?
The primary economic activity of the region.
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What was cereal crops or grains?
The primary export of the Middle Colonies.
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What is the Great Awakening?
This religious movement promoted intellectual exchange among diverse groups.
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What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Conflict between the Spanish and Native Americans New Mexico in 1680.
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What is the Seven Years' War?
The French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.
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What was Rhode Island?
The most religiously tolerant colony in New England.
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What is salutary neglect?
A term historians use to refer to the lack of enforcement of the Navigation Acts.
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What is evangelism?
The term for the spreading of Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
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What are maroons?
The term for communities of runaway slaves.
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What were Asientos?
These special licenses issued by the Spanish internationalized the African slave trade.
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What is King Philip's War or Metacom's War?
This war ended the alliance with the Wampanoag and any significant resistance by local tribes.
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What is mercantilism?
All the European powers employed this economic system to gain wealth from their colonies.
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What is German?
Largest immigrant group aside from those from the British Isles.
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What is the Stono Rebellion?
Slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1739.
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Who are the Algonquians?
In the fur trade, the French allied with this group of Native Americans.
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Who was John Winthrop?
This Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony called Boston "a city upon a hill" in his sermon, "A model of Christian Charity."
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What is external competition OR smuggling?
The primary reason Britain had difficulty enforcing the Navigation Acts and collecting duties (taxes).
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What is print culture?
The spread of ideas through the written word is known as this.
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Who are the Narragansett?
This New England tribe remained neutral in any conflicts with Puritans until they were attacked without cause during King Philip's War.
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Who is John Rolfe?
He saved the colony from failure by growing the first successful tobacco crop AND he married Pocahontas.
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