Chapter 3 British North America

Question 1

race

Answer 1

strict racial barriers based on skin color
emerged with the colonization of the Americas and the slave trade

Question 2

Middle Passage

Answer 2

The forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade

Question 2

enslaved Indians

Answer 2

faced high mortality rates due to disease, murder and starvation

Question 3

British West Indies

Answer 3

the Caribbean islands and coastal nations that were ruled by the British Empire

Question 4

English Civil War

Answer 4

fighting that took place in the British Isles between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II)
Parliament vs the Monarchy

Question 5

Navigation Acts

Answer 5

a series of laws passed by the British Parliament to regulate trade and shipping between England and its colonies

Question 6

Glorious Revolution

Answer 6

a series of events in 1688–89 that resulted in the overthrow of King James II and the ascension of William and Mary to the throne of England

Question 7

Dominion of New England

Answer 7

New colonies began springing up

Question 8

Maryland

Answer 8

established as a haven for Catholics and to demonstrate inter-religious tolerance and cooperation

Question 9

Conneticut

Answer 9

founded by religious radicals seeking political and religious freedom

Question 10

Rhode Island

Answer 10

Roger Williams founded this
as a haven for tolerance and republicanism

Question 11

New York

Answer 11

aka New Netherlands

Question 12

William Penn

Answer 12

wanted a “Colony of Heaven for the Children of Light”

Question 13

Carolina

Answer 13

attracted settlers with incentives and grew rapidly, especially in the southern region where large plantations were established

Question 14

Pequot War

Answer 14

Armed Puritans, calling themselves “The Sword of the Lord”, attacked the Pequots who were on the land they claimed

Question 15

Metacom

Answer 15

intertribal leader of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and Narraganset.

Question 16

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 16

an armed uprising in Virginia’s Colony from 1676–1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial governor, William Berkeley, and was the first popular uprising in the American colonies.

Question 17

Pope

Answer 17

led the Pueblo Revolt

Question 18

Yamasee War

Question 19

Walking Purchase

Answer 19

the colonial government acquired land from the Delaware tribe, resulted in strained relations and migration of Delaware to the Ohio Valley