1.2 APUSH Flashcards
What was a common characteristic of royal colonies throughout English America in the 17th century?
An elected assembly
The economic livelihood of the Virginia colony by the 1700s depended on what product?
Tobacco
What was the significance of new world crops, in Europe and Asia?
American crops increased agriculture yield and population growth in the old world.
How was colonization similar for the French and Spanish?
They both wanted to Christianize the natives.
The encomiendas granted by the Spanish crown in the sixteenth century consisted of?
legal control over American land and Indian labor.
John Winthrop’s phrase “city upon a hill” referred to which colony?
Massachusettes bay
In North America’s plantation colonies, most indentured servants ___?
never escaped from poverty
What describes the English migrants who initially settled in Jamestown in the early 1600s?
they expected to profit from Indian labor
What was the puritan’s first priority when settling in the new world?
creat a reformed society that modeled Christianity in America
In contrast to Spanish missionaries of the 16th century, the 17th century french Jesuits?
Tried to understand Indian values and worldviews
