Colonial America (1492-1754)

Question 1

Iroquois Confederacy

Answer 1

1) Political differences made Native Americans to respond to the European threat
2) Most powerful alliance and generations of tribal warfare

Question 2

Columbian Exchange

Answer 2

1) Exchange of food, plants, animals, and diseases
2 )became dependent on the fur trade
3) Smallpox and other disease killed natives

Question 3

Native Americans & British Similarities

Answer 3

1) Lived in villages
2) Religion
3) Divided labor by Gender
4) Agriculture

Question 4

Native Americans & British Differences

Answer 4

1) Private Property

2) Children stayed with Mothers families (Native)

Question 5

Virginia Company

Answer 5

1) joint stock company that mainly wanted to make a profit

2) Religion was not a big part

Question 6

Tobacco

Answer 6

1) Made Chesapeake bay colony $$$

2) Most valuable cash crop

Question 7

Indentured Servants

Answer 7

Key Role in tobacco in Maryland and Virginia before 1675

Question 8

Slaves

Answer 8

grew rapidly on the plantation- replaced indentured servants

Question 9

Headright System

Answer 9

If you paid, you were promised 50 acres of land in America

Question 10

Puritans

Answer 10

1) Came from New England to escape religious persecution

2) Live in farm villages

Question 11

John Winthrop

Answer 11

Leader of the Puritans

Question 12

Puritans & their Community

Answer 12

1) Relationship between church and state

2) Founded colleges (Harvard and Yale)

Question 13

Puritan Beliefs

Answer 13

1) Wanted an ideal Christian society

Question 14

“A City Upon A Hill”

Answer 14

1) Named by Winthrop

2) city with a strict code of conduct

Question 15

Puritan Religion

Answer 15

wanted their own free religion, but didn’t tolerate others

Question 16

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 16

1) Massachusetts Bay authorities arguments over religious doctrine and gender roles
2) claimed to have revelations from God
3) Banished to Rhode Island

Question 17

Roger Williams

Answer 17

1) Founded Rhode Island

2) Religious toleration and freedom

Question 18

Halfway Covenant

Answer 18

1) Puritans strict toleration began to decline

2) eased requirements for church membership

Question 19

First Great Awakening

Answer 19

1) Caused a lot of religious revivals in the 1740s

2) Advocated a New light approach

Question 20

New Light religion

Answer 20

emotional approach to the practicing of religion

Question 21

Old Light religion

Answer 21

traditional practicing

Question 22

New Light Ministers

Answer 22

1) Created Princeton University
2) African American Slaves followed this
3) emotional connection
4) Presbyterian
5) Women more involved

Question 23

Pennsylvania

Answer 23

1) Founded By William Penn
2) created a liberated colony with a representative assembly elected by land owners
3) Freedom of religion

Question 24

Quakers

Answer 24

1) Pacifists with the right to bear arms
2) Freedom of Worship and accepted women
3) Americans first slavery abolitionists

Question 25

Pre Rev Economic Society

Answer 25

1) Merchants & planters were $$$
2) Different Europeans were coming over
3) Slavery main labor force
4) trading manufactured goods through many ports with England

Question 26

13 colonies

Answer 26

1) Religiously diverse
2) culturally diverse
3) agriculture

Question 27

Mercantilism

Answer 27

Englands economic philosophy that your power was determined by your wealth

Question 28

Navigation acts

Answer 28

Colonial products were only allowed to be shipped to England

Question 29

Salutary Neglect

Answer 29

British neglecting to enforce some laws in the colonies

Question 30

Women in the colonies

Answer 30

1) Couldn’t own property unless widowed

2) No legal identity apart from her husband

Question 31

Republicanism

Answer 31

the belief that the government should be based on the consent of the governed

Question 32

Republican Government

Answer 32

preferred over a monarchy