Prep for Unit 1 Test Flashcards
The most distinctive feature of the Rhode Island colony was that
it enjoyed the most complete religious freedom of all english colonies
Before the first english settlements in New England, Native Americans in the region had been devastated by
intertribal conflicts caused by disputes over hunting grounds
The Indian tribe that first encountered the Pilgrim colonists in New England were the
Wampanoags
King Philip’s war represented
The last major Indian effort to halt New Englanders’ encroachment on their lands
The primary value of the New England Confederation lay in
Providing the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation
The event that sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England was
the Glorious (bloodless) revolution in England
The short-lived colony conquered by the Dutch New Netherland in 1655 was
New Sweden
William Penn’s colony of Pennsylvania
actively sought settlers from Germany and other non-british countries
Besides Pennsylvania, Quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of both
New Jersey and Delaware
The middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the southern colonies
The Principle motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England was
religious commitment and devotion
Compared with the Plymouth colony, the Massachusetts Bay colony was
larger and more prosperous economically
One reason that the Massachusetts Bay was not a true democracy is that
Only church members could vote for the governor and the general court
For most of their early history, the colonies of Maryland and Virginia
contained far more men than women.
The primary beneficiaries of the “headright” system were
landowners who paid the transatlantic passage for indentured servants.
The primary cause of Bacon’s Rebellion was
the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire men.
African slavery became the prevalent form of labor in the 1680s when
planters were no longer able to rely on white indentured servants as a labor force.
The culture that developed among the slaves in the English colonies of North America was
a combination of several African and American cultures.
Political and economic power in the southern colonies was dominated by
wealthy planters.
Because there were few urban centers in the colonial South,
a professional class of lawyers and financiers was slow to develop.
Puritan lawmakers in New England prevented married women from having property rights because
they feared that separate property rights for women would undercut the unity of married couples.
In New England, elementary education
was mandatory for any town with more than fifty families.