1st test about colonies
874924842 | Primary significance? | A. First permanent colony established by the British in the Americas | 1 | |
874924843 | year founded? | founded in 1607 | 2 | |
874924844 | reason founded? | Founded for economic gain | 3 | |
874924845 | Role of Virginia Company? | This was a pair of English stock companies, London Company and Plymouth Company, founded in 1606 to establish settlements on the coast of North America. | 4 | |
874924846 | Role of tobacco? | The cash crop tobacco saved Jamestown economically. | 5 | |
874924847 | House of Burgesses? | The first representative government in North America located in Virginia. | 6 | |
874924848 | Colonists relationship with Powhatan? | The Powhatan were a powerful Native American tribe that was in constant conflict with Virginia settlers. | 7 | |
874924849 | Bacon's Rebellion? | A 1676 uprising in the Virginia Colony led by frontiers-men against government corruption and oppression. | 8 | |
874924850 | Reason/year founded and by whom? | Founded in 1620 for religious reasons by the Puritans | 9 | |
874924851 | Mayflower Compact | The first governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed by the Pilgrims in November of 1620. | 10 | |
874924852 | King Philip's War? | Brutal conflict between the Mass. settlers and the Wampanoag Indians led their chief Metacomet, eventually won by the colonist but resulting in many deaths. | 11 | |
874924853 | Roger Williams? | English theologian who advocated for the separation of church and state and Native American rights, was forced to flee Mass. and founded Providence, Rhode Island, where he established religious freedom. | 12 | |
874924854 | Half-way Covenant? | A method for members to have partial membership in the New England Puritan Church, promoted by Rev. Stoddard. | 13 | |
874924855 | Salem Witch Trials? | A series of court proceedings held in Massachusetts in 1692 in which 19 people were executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft. | 14 | |
874924856 | Loss of Massachusetts charter? | Revoking of Mass. Charter by King George II due to the colonists refusal to obey by the Navigation Acts | 15 | |
874924857 | Who originally settled New Amsterdam? | The Dutch West India Company settled New Netherlands in 1621. The Dutch were fur-traders. | 16 | |
874924858 | Who overtook New Amsterdam? How? | The duke of York used the British Navy to overtake New Netherlands in 1664. He renamed the colony New York and later gave part of the land to friends, which was renamed New Jersey. | 17 | |
874924859 | Principles on which Pennsylvania was founded? By whom? Why? | cooperation, social equality, religious toleration - William Penn, a Quaker, who wanted his settlers to be as "free and happy as can be" and promised they'd be governed by "laws of their own making | 18 | |
874924860 | Describe the geography and religious make-up of Pennsylvania. | Religiously and geographically diverse | 19 | |
874924861 | Economy of the Middle Colonies | Farming was #1, but there were also merchants, mechanics, shippers and tradespeople. Mercantilism and the Trans-Atlantic trade | 20 | |
874924862 | Definition of mercantilism? | The economic philosophy that control of imports was the key to enhancing the health of a nation and that Colonies existed to serve the home country as a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured goods. | 21 | |
874924863 | Necessary components of mercantilism? | (1) colonies (2) large navy to protect those colonies (3) country must sell more than it buys | 22 | |
874924864 | Definition of Trans-Atlantic trade? | The trade of African slaves by Europeans. Most slaves were shipped from West Africa to the New World. | 23 | |
874924865 | Favorable balance of trade? | When the value of a country's exports is greater than that of their imports. | 24 |